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Episode 14: Graduation Address 2019 – Colin Edwards

This podcast features the address by Dr Colin Edwards, which was recorded at Redcliffe’s MA Thanksgiving Service and Awards Ceremony.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all our MA graduates for their achievements and we hope that you’ll be able to keep in touch if you’re a recent MA graduate as we’re always interested to hear how Redcliffe’s unique MAs have impacted our students and their wider work in mission.

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care;

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 13b: Mary Evans – Unseen People in the Bible Part 2

In the second part of Mary’s public lecture, she goes more in depth with some stories from the Old Testament and talks about how we percieve the ‘heroes’ from this part of the Bible.

Mary is a visiting lecturer in Old Testament and former Academic Dean at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, and a former lecturer at the London School of Theology. Her most recent book is Judges and Ruth in the revised series of Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries.

 

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Pictured left to right: Tim Davy, Mary Evans, Rosie Button

Episode 13a: Mary Evans – Unseen People in the Bible Part 1

In the last of our Summer School Public Events, guest speaker, Mary Evans shares her passion for talking about Unseen people in the Bible. Who are they? Listen to find out. This is part one of a two part lecture.

Mary is a visiting lecturer in Old Testament and former Academic Dean at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa, and a former lecturer at the London School of Theology. Her most recent book is Judges and Ruth in the revised series of Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries.

 

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 12c: Jim Memory – Church, Society & Mission in the midst of Brexit Q & A

In this final part of this three part series, Jim Memory asks Evert and Mike questions based on their earlier talks and finishes with a short talk based on his own observations.

Recorded on 17th July 2019 as part of our Summer school public lectures.

Pictured left to right. Prof Evan van del Poll, Principal Rosalee Velloso Ewell, Jim Memory & Bishop Mike Royal

Jim is the module leader of the MA in European Mission and combines his role at Redcliffe with a role within European Christian Mission International in training, supporting and developing the field ministries of ECM across Europe

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 12b: Prof Evert van de Poll – Church, Society & Mission in the midst of Brexit

Based on his research and observations Prof. Evert van de Poll looks at Brexit, Nationalism & Populism from a European perspective.

This is the second recording of a three part series recorded on 17th July 2019 as part of our Summer school public lectures.

Evert van de Poll is Professor of Religious Studies and Missiology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven, and pastor with the French Baptist Federation (FEEBF) with an itinerant teaching ministry. 

Evert’s recent publications include: Europe and the Gospel: Past Challenges, Present Influences, Mission Challenges and Church Planting in Europe (with Joanne Appleton). Visit his website here.

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 12a: Bishop Mike Royal – Church, Society & Mission in the midst of Brexit

This is the first of a three part series recorded on 17th July 2019 as part of our Summer school public lectures. In this recording Bishop Mike Royal talks about the topic from a British perspective.

Mike Royal is the Co-Chief Executive of Cinnamon Network UK, a charity that helps churches with their community engagement through a team regionally based advisors and recommending churches to adopt best practice church led social action projects.

He was also consecrated as a Bishop in the Pentecostal Church in 2016.

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 10: Kang-San Tan and Loun Ling Lee | On BMS, Asia, mission trends and issues, and renewing friendships

On BMS, Asia, mission trends and issues, and renewing friendships

Kang-San and Loun

Kang-San Tan and Loun Ling Lee were lecturers at Redcliffe before joining CMS in 2012 to develop mission training across Asia. Based again in the UK Kang-San is now General Director of BMS and Loun is involved in mission training, not least through rejoining Redcliffe’s teaching team.

In today’s episode Rosalee and Tim chat with Kang-San and Loun about their previous time at Redcliffe, their involvement in mission training in Asia, and their new roles here in the UK. We also talk about some significant trends and issues in mission and ask what good partnership looks like in mission today.

Useful links:
BMS
AsiaCMS

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 9: Rosie Button | Women in Missiology Network

Women in Missiology network

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Redcliffe recently launched a network that aims to connect and promote women teaching, researching, writing and studying in Missiology. In this week’s episode Rosalee talks to Redcliffe lecturer Rosie Button about why it was started and how we can all benefit from it.

Women in Missiology is a network of women teaching, researching, writing, and studying in the field of missiology. It provides a space to connect, to learn, and to resource the Church. This happens through three main ways: a closed Facebook group for connecting and sharing ideas and resources; a consultation to meet and learn together, and encourage one another to excellence; and a curated bibliography.

The network will hold its first consultation on 6-7 June at IMC in Birmingham in the UK. This 24-hour women-only event aims to:

  • connect women engaged in missiology
  • engage with papers on the consultation theme of, ‘The Bible and Mission’
  • give a space to share experiences and raise issues involved in being a woman working in the field of missiology
  • encourage the next generation of women scholars
  • help shape the network’s future

Keynote speakers include Dr Cathy Ross on ‘Lament and Hope: “There are things that can be seen only with eyes that have cried.”’ and Dr Mary Evans on ‘Old Testament Narrative and its Missional Significance.’

NOTE – we have received funding to heavily subsidise the places for students. See the website for more details.

Immediately following the Women in Missiology consultation is the Global Connections Mission Educators Forum on 7-8 June. The theme for this year’s 24-hour gathering is ‘Gender and Mission Education’. Participants will be exploring together how we equip people for mission in a way that helps them to understand and work through an increasing and complex array of Gender-related issues. Plenary speakers include Dr Mary Evans and Dr Elaine Storkey.

Why not come to both?! 

And if you want to explore issues of Gender: As well as being course facilitator for Redcliffe’s MA in Member Care, Rosie also leads our module, Gender and Mission.

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics.

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 8: Rob Hay | Leading in the midst of uncertainty

Rob Hay - Leading in the Midst of Uncertainty

Rob Hay

We quiz visiting lecturer and former Principal Rev Dr Rob Hay on leading in the midst of uncertainty. Rob recently completed his PhD on the topic, with particular reference to ideas of complexity, and explains why it is important for leaders to acknowledge uncertainty and find new ways of leading.

Join Faculty members Rosie Button, Sarah Hay, Chris Ducker and Tim Davy as we talk with Rob and get our heads around complexity theory, discover its very practical implications for leaders, and realise we were ‘lab rats’ in Rob’s research!

Rev Dr Rob Hay is Head of Learning and Ministry Development for the Diocese of Leicester. Before taking up that role in 2017 he was Principal at Redcliffe College and continues to teach on Redcliffe’s Leadership in a Complex World MA Programme.

If you want to explore your own role as a leader further why not sign up for our Leadership in a Complex World MA programme? You can begin it at our Summer School this July, at our Autumn or Spring long weekend intensives, or even at our Oceania hub in Australia in late January 2019.

Alternatively, why not audit one of the leadership modules as a non-validated ‘Active Participant’ at our UK Summer School? ‘An Introduction to Global Leadership’ runs 16-20 July and ‘Organisational Development and Cultural Change’ runs 23-27 July.

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.

Episode 7: Redcliffe Faculty | Excitement about Summer School

Find out why Redcliffe’s faculty are getting excited about the Summer!

What are they teaching at this July’s UK Summer School intensive? Why do they all think their module is the best? Who do you think is right?!

In this episode some of Redcliffe’s lecturers reflect on what is on offer at this year’s Summer School (9-27 July) and why they are passionate about their modules. Listen in to get a flavour of what Redcliffe courses look like, why they might be relevant to your ministry, and who’s involved in teaching them. In the conversation you’ll hear from Colin Edwards, Rosie Button, Sarah Hay, Rob Hay, Chris Ducker, and Tim Davy.

Every July Redcliffe holds our UK Summer School intensive for those doing part-time MA programmes in Contemporary Missiology, Leadership, or Member Care, or pursuing continuing professional development. We’re also looking forward to hosting a number of visiting lecturers in July, including Chris Wright, Israel Olofinjana, Kate Coleman, and Krish Kandiah.

Modules this year include:

Week one (9-13 July)
Research Methods and Approaches for Missiological Study
Global Missiological Issues in Intercultural Contexts

Week two (16-20 July)
The Mission Worker as a Person
Organisational Development and Cultural Change
The Practice of Christian Mission in European Contexts
Vulnerable Children: Bible, Theology and Society

Week three (23-27 July)
An Introduction to Global Leadership
Advocacy, Reconciliation and Peace-Building in Intercultural Contexts
Reading the Bible Missionally
Life and Work in Muslim Contexts

Redcliffe College offers part-time, blended-mode MA programmes to help mission practitioners deepen your understanding and develop your practice.

Programmes include:

MA in Contemporary Missiology;

MA in Leadership in a Complex World

MA in Member Care

MA in Literacy Programme Development

MA in Field Linguistics

Thanks to MJHMusic for the music in today’s episode – Check them out here.