Dr F. Lionel Young III

Dr F. Lionel Young III serves as the Executive Vice President for Global Action, an international non-profit that focuses on theological education in the non-Western world. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Stirling (Scotland), a Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Illinois), a M.Div. from Grace Theological Seminary (Indiana) and a B.A. from Grace College (Indiana). Lionel’s research interests are in World Christianity, transnational evangelicalism, missions history and Christianity in East Africa. His most recent work World Christianity and the Unfinished Task: A Very Short Introduction (Cascade Books) is a popular introduction to the relationship between World Christianity and contemporary missions. He is currently working on a book-length study of the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya during decolonization to be published by the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (Regnum). His article on Wellington Mulwa (1918–1979), the first bishop of the African Inland Church, can be read at https://dacb.org/stories/kenya/mulwa-wellington/.