global Christianity
The United Methodist meeting offered no clear way forward. What now?
The UMC, a global church, prides itself on its democratic and decentralized polity. All this shapes its response to LGBTQ couples and clergy.
Lamin Sanneh, scholar of Christian missions, dies at age 76
Sanneh challenged the idea that Christianity was merely a tool of colonialism.
The Baptist exception
Christians in the Global South now dominate every major Protestant tradition—except one.
What is the Christian century?
The unexpected Christian century has produced a global body of Christ that challenges as well as enriches Christians.
Which global church? The Pentecostal World Fellowship and the WCC
Weeks after Pentecostals met in Malaysia, Christians from around the globe arrived in Korea. The gatherings represented very different groups.
Neighbors in Christ: Global Christianity in the city
Many cities contain an almost fully representative presence of world Christianity. These are new laboratories for global Christian unity.
The World’s Christians, by Douglas Jacobsen
The term world Christianity has been widely used since the publication of Philip Jenkins’s 2002 best seller The Next Christendom, but in popular usage it has tended to refer only to Christianity in the Global South. Though courses on world Christianity have proliferated, no one until Douglas Jacobsen has taken the care to delineate the contours of the entire global movement.