The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced administrator to join our team as the Centre Coordinator.

Vacancy type: Part-time, fixed contract for 12 months, renewable
Hours: 18 hours a week
Start Date: 01 April 2024
Location: CCCW, Westminster College, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0AA

Full job advertisement available here. Further information and a full job description are available on request. A complete application consists of a CV and a cover letter with the names of two referees. Application material should be emailed to Mrs Rachel Simonson: centre[at]cccw.cam.ac.uk

Closing date for applications is 29 February 2024.
Interviews in Cambridge during the week beginning 5 March 2024.

2024 CCCW Day Lecture

Join us for an enlightening lecture on “Health in World Christianity: Towards a History of Healing in African Christianity in the 20th Century” by Professor Emma Wild-Wood.

Date: Thursday, January 25, 2024

Time: 4:00-5:30 pm GMT

Venue: Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity

For more information, go at 2024 CCCW Day Lecture.

Date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM
Venue: Westminster College, Cambridge

Join us for a captivating exploration into the intersection of religion and Commonwealth values at our upcoming event, hosted by The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Relations.

More info here: Religion and Commonwealth Values: a panel discussion – Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

By Dr Hugh Morrison

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

28 November 2023, 4-5.30pm, Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

This paper marks a reflective end point for a project focused on the historical lives of British-world Protestant missionaries’ children, from the 1870s to the 1950s. While large in number, their voices were seldom heard and their lives until recently largely untold. This current study takes a more broadly comparative approach (using Scottish and New Zealand Presbyterianism as examples), focusing particularly on the early twentieth century. As such it utilises a range of published and unpublished sources, including oral history and written memoirs.

More information here.

By Dr Heike Raphael-Hernandez

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

21 November 2023, 4-5.30pm, Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

The talk will focus on the complex and, at times, contradictory encounters of Moravian missionaries, a Protestant group from Saxony, with enslaved Africans. The early period of Moravian missionary presence—between the 1730s and 1760s—differed from subsequent periods because later periods lost the original attempts to establish spiritual equality. A close reading of the various documents allows one to detect forms of active protest and creative agency on the part of enslaved people that were fostered, wittingly or unwittingly, by the Moravian missionaries.

More information here.

by Dr Daryl Ireland

CCCW-DIVFAC SEMINARS 2023-2024

31 October 2023, 4-5.30pm, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

For the past seven years, the Center for Global Christianity and Mission (CGCM) has embarked on a remarkable journey to recover and preserve a significant aspect of China’s religious history. They have successfully tracked down and digitized more than 700 Chinese Christian posters carried out of China by missionaries and refugees. This invaluable digital archive is poised to revolutionize our understanding of Chinese Christianity during the first half of the 20th century.

The CGCM, under the leadership of Daryl Ireland, has taken a pivotal step in unearthing a rich visual history that was previously lost to time. On Tuesday, 31 October 2023, Dr Daryl Ireland, the director of the Chinese Christian Posters project, will present a selection of these extraordinary prints. During the presentation, he will delve into why these posters are rewriting the narrative of Chinese Christianity in the early 20th century.

More information here.

Prof. David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling, will be speaking on ‘Evangelical Theology in the English-Speaking World during the Nineteenth Century.’

Register at centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk.

*No 5*

Janet Parsons’ background includes many years in Southern Africa but also teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages in Asia and the UK.  In 2009-2011, she trained in South Africa and the U.K. for cross-cultural work in mission.  In 2013, she joined CMS as a self-supporting worker and moved to Africa to teach at Bishop Barham, constituent college of Uganda Christian University. 

Read post *No 1* here.

Read post *No 2* here.

Read post *No 3 here.

Read post *No 4 here.

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