Enjoy Episode 4 in our Series “Faith and Leadership Journeys of Inspiring Global Women” with Rev. Dr. Lydia Mwaniki as she talks about her journey and gender equality.!

We are happy to say that, All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health, edited by Daniel W. O’Neil and our very own Beth Snodderly was recently released! This book is a legacy project of WCIU's founder, Dr. Ralph D. Winter and contains contributions from Richard Gunasekera, a current board member. Our former board chair, Mike Soderling wrote the book’s Foreword. Congratulations to all who worked so hard to make this a reality!

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. By Yuen Yuen Ang, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 344 pages.

Reviewed by Yalin Xin

It is with great hope for and expectation that the Lord is “doing a new thing” that the Board of WCIU announces the resignation of Dr. Kevin Higgins as President of WCIU; effective August 31, 2021.

Interested in unpacking more about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee? Dr. Grace May does a skillful job of laying out a more complete biographical sketch of Dr. Mable Ping-Hua Lee and her contributions to the WCIU Journal found in this post.

No other university I know of has a particular view toward impact in the regions and peoples of world where the name of Jesus the Messiah is not yet known.

Why is the Chinese eradication of poverty so significant to the developing world? Dr. Yalin Xin gives us some insight in this blog post.

You’ve heard of the Lost Boys of Sudan, but have you heard of the Lost Girls of Sudan? Hear the stories of Pauline Hassan Burkey and Anger Agoth in Episode 3 of WCIU’s Women’s Institute Interview Series: Faith and Leadership Journeys of Inspiring Global Women.

You won’t want to miss this multicultural service conducted in German, English, and Kikuyu with plenty of DANCE! by Tanzanian women, an African dancer, and Irina Jang in celebration of Pentecost!

In this post, we hear from Irina Jang, a professional circus artist and performing artist as she share her experience meeting God through dance and how He used her passion to carry her through the darkness of 2020 with Fire Arts.

I hope this blog will interest you to read the entire white paper on “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era” and join in the dialogue by leaving your comment at the end of the blog, and sharing insights on your own social networks.

…In light of the recent Anti-Asian attacks in Georgia and across the country, we are recognizing that the Asian American church in the US has a voice, many voices in fact…

Recently, in reflecting on the weight of the circumstances surrounding us; both communally (COVID, current events like mass shootings and racial tensions) and personal (you fill in the black), Dr. Kevin Higgins stated that, "[All of these things are] just a reminder to myself and to us. And it is good to remember that everything we hear about, and know about, and face is something common to many, many others all over our world. Overwhelming, yes. But a healthy necessity. So, allow it, embrace it, even seek it sometimes."

He then said to also be reminded that, "There is a bigger Heart that holds it all. And I have nowhere to go but to place my small heart in that big Heart."

The following is an except from a post entitled “Pre-Urban Spirituality” which Dr. Viv Grigg authored on April 12, 2021. In it he shares some of his spiritual journey living among the poor. We hope it encourages you.

In this short clip, Erika Dayle Siu* explains the connection between empowering women and tax justice and how important providing for the common good is to the well-being of women across the globe. She unpacks the major themes in a newly-released book titled, Tax Justice and Global Inequality, which she co-edited with Krishen Mehta and Esther Shubert.