Missions

John Thomas, First Baptist Missionary to Bengal

Photo credit: Regent's Park College, University of Oxford Dr John Thomas [1757-1801] was a founding member of the Baptist Missionary…

4 years ago

Stones of Fire by Isobel Kuhn

Frontispiece The "Stone of Fire" of the title are the Lisu people of the Tibetan plateau, amongst whom Isobel Kuhn…

4 years ago

Future of Africa: A Missions Textbook by Donald Fraser

Religions of Africa, circa 1911 This text-book is the fifth in a series of textbooks issued conjointly by the leading…

4 years ago

Robert and Louisa Stewart, Missionaries to China

Robert & Louisa Stewart served in China's Fujian province with the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.), where they developed a number…

4 years ago

Story of the Police Court Mission 1876-1926

The Police Court Mission was a forerunner of the UK Probation Service that was founded in 1907, but its importance…

4 years ago

Robert Morrison – A Master Builder by Marshall Broomhall

A biography of the Presbyterian Missionary to Macao, Bible translator and Lexicographer Robert Morrison by the Editorial Secretary of the…

4 years ago

Press Release: Operation Mobilisation Archive

International missions archive to move to Leuven — On 19 October in Leuven, Belgium, Operation Mobilisation International (OM) will formally signify the transfer of the organisation’s…

5 years ago

Visit to All Nations Christian College

Yesterday I had another chance to visit All Nations Christian College in Hertfordshire. Easneye Mansion was formerly the country home…

5 years ago

Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociology of Missions

James S. Dennis's seven Lectures on the Sociology of Christian Mission are notable for both their detail (they run to…

5 years ago

Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Library

SS Philip and James Parish Church. Source: OCMS Website. This morning I took a short break from the BETH Conference…

5 years ago