William Carey International Development Journal

Letter From the Dean of Doctoral Studies

“We are so pleased to launch the new PhD program in Global Development at William Carey International University. WCIU has a clear mission of advocating an integrated framework for development studies, incorporating biblical, historical, and cultural perspectives and insights from related fields of study. Integration and mutual learning are key components of the Ph.D. program in Global Development, aimed at developing students’ capacity to engage in local development challenges informed by multiple related perspectives and learning from global communities to establish defensible positions and propose holistic solutions. We strive to support students with the tools and resources necessary for their research needs. A significant amount of the coursework is designed to equip students with the perspectives essential for studying global development and to build students’ research capacity. Our faculty team with diverse academic and professional backgrounds is committed to guiding students through their individualized research projects.”

- Yalin Xin, Ph.D., Dean of Doctoral Studies

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Take your scholarship to the next level with our PhD in Global Development.

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Now accepting new doctoral students for the upcoming September Term!

Take your scholarship to the next level with our PhD in Global Development. For more information visit https://hubs.ly/Q02yyff_0 or send us a DM!

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Take your scholarship to the next level with our Ph.D. in Development Studies Program!

William Carey International University is thrilled to announce the launch of our Ph.D. in Global Development Program! The University Leadership would like to give a special thanks to Dean of Doctoral Studies, Yalin Xin, Ph.D. for his tireless efforts to build a program of excellence committed mutuality of learning.

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Last week, at their annual in-person meetings, WCIU's Board of Directors honored Dr. Greg Parsons for over 30 years of service to the University. Greg is our resident historian, networking aficionado, and our longest standing board member. Greg is one of the faithful few whose labor, sweat, and tears are literally mixed into the foundation of WCIU. Greg, thank you for your service and dedication to world evangelism and to the mission of WCIU to see communities flourish across the earth!

We're looking for a CFO! If you or anyone in your network has experience in finance, leadership and higher education, then visit https://hubs.ly/Q02xMKC-0 for more info!

Today makes 15 years since the passing of our founder, Dr. Ralph D. Winter. A man committed to the pursuit of the flourishing of communities across the earth and mobilizing others to join in. For more on his life and legacy, read this tribute post by Dr. Greg Parsons, long time Frontier Ventures leader and WCIU Board member.

Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter

Tribute to Dr. Ralph Winter Honoring the life and death of our founder.

"Our mission is to see men and women formed in such a way they become Christ's incarnational presence in the culture and contexts they find themselves in."
- Rev. Dr. Paul Cornelius, President, WCIU

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The WCIU International Development Journal is a peer-reviewed online journal sponsored by William Carey International University, devoted to interdisciplinary research focused on the historical, cultural, and spiritual roots of human problems around the world, as well as analysis and discussion of proposed solutions.

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WCIU and SEND International are coming together for an online training focused on Identifying Vulnerable Communities. During our time together, Dr Viv Grigg, Director of WCIU’s MA in Transformational Urban Leadership will encourage us to follow the example of Jesus, who came to minister to the vulnerable in society sharing with them the good news of his redemptive kingdom. One challenge for church planters and development workers as they step into new contexts is to identify the vulnerable communities to which they will share this good news. Our hope is that this session will impart practical ways you can do just that.

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Pandemic Theology: Listen, Lament, and Labor: A Theology That Emerged From Those Who Worked on COVID Units is Chaplain Matthew Hoffman’s 2023 book compiling, contextualizing, and reflecting upon his interviews with hundreds of health care professionals who worked during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the culmination of his doctoral studies in spiritual care interventions for healthcare professionals and a meditation on the Christian response during times of global suffering.

in December 2023, WCIU Special Assistant to the President, Sean Curren connected with Matthew Hoffman for an interview. Read it here: https://hubs.ly/Q02sW2y60

Be Changed. Bring Change.

Join our global community of scholar practitioners who are seeking transformation for the peoples they serve.

The WCIU community was blessed by the wisdom and candor of our guest presenters at our webinar last month, "Following Christ into the Public Square." The webinar replay is up in case you missed it!

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Our next webinar is in collaboration with SEND International on May 1st! Visit https://hubs.ly/Q02sW02F0 for more details!

For a verdant and flourishing world, ripe with wholeness and peace for all peoples
- WCIU Vision Statement

WCIU is a global community of scholar-practitioners seeking to serve others to develop transformational solutions to the roots of human problems around the world. Want to join us?

Currently, WCIU has a few open positions we are looking to fill! Should you or anyone in your network be a good fit, please don't hesitate to apply!

We are actively seeking the following:

A Web Content Specialist
A Librarian
Adjunct Faculty
Click here to review the Position Descriptions and see if WCIU is the place for you.

Careers — William Carey International University We are constantly humbled by our staff and faculty who create an exciting and caring work environment. Please see our available positions below:

William Carey International University (WCIU) is seeking a part time librarian to join our dynamic, international team working to enhance the effectiveness of scholar-practitioners as they work to solve the roots of human problems. WCIU courses are online with students and faculty spread around the world and this role is a key to their learning experience!

This is a work from home position offers flexible scheduling and is focused on providing digital resources.

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Questions for a Research Project re Evangelical Church

1. What are 2 or 3 phrases that come to your mind when you think of the evangelical church?
2. How is the evangelical church different now than it was in the past?
I need your replies for a research project. I'm doing an "audit" of the seven church in Revelation with a comparison to the evangelical church of today, using "tests" from First John (the subject of my dissertation).

Thank you in advance for participating.

“Discipleship means that disciples have to find Jesus’ answers for the exploited factory worker, and how the poor should respond to the moneylenders... The Bible has much to teach about what we should do with such problems of oppression.” (Viv Grigg, Companion to the Poor: Christ in the Urban Slums p. 57)

Will you join us in praying for the escalating situation in Ukraine today? Pope Francis has issued a call for a world day of prayer today and has stated, “I am following with concern the increase of tensions that threaten to inflict a new blow to the peace in Ukraine, and call into question the security of the European continent, with wider repercussions.”

Join us in praying for the following:

👏Wisdom and discernment for the key global leaders involved James 1:5
👏For the Prince of Peace to be made known and for His peace to give comfort to those who find themselves in the crossfire of this conflict. Ephesians 1:17-19
👏Pray for believers to be strengthen by the love of Christ. Ephesians 3:16-19
👏Justice and righteousness Amos 5:24
👏For mercy from heaven and a quick resolution 2 Thess 3:1-5

Church historian and missiologist, Ralph D. Winter:
"It is possible to observe that in the four-hundred-year period between 1200 and 1600 a third Dark Age occurred. This was not due to a military invasion so much as to the widespread devastation of the Bubonic plague in middle of the 14th century. The plague, which might be called a bacteriological invasion, was far more destructive than either of the two earlier [military] invasions."

Analysis: While the world has been in a "Dark Age" due to wars & plagues for 100 years+, science has advanced. Darkness and light at the same time. Each dark age in the last 2000 years was followed by a "renaissance." It's hard to see patterns in our current events because it takes hundreds of years for a parallel cycle of history to repeat.

https://mailchi.mp/168056131965/global-health-wciu-publications-update?e=3ccf8eaebb

Global Health: WCIU Publications Update • Literature Guides by Timothy Skinner on Bacteria, Bacterial Diseases, and Bacteriology, and Arab-Islamic Medicine. • Why Eradication? A post by Brian Lowther and Jesse Bjoraker  in the WCIU Journal's "Health and Disease" topic, originally published on the Roberta Winter Institute website. .....

This week's WCIU Publications Update announces the publication of a Ralph Winter legacy book and requests that you update your contact information as we prepare to migrate from Mailchimp to HubSpot.
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Important News!

My WCIU Publications Update this week includes a screen shot from the new back cover of the book I've been co-editing for some time (All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease). I'll be letting every one know when it's finally published! We just finished the indexes and approved the cover, so we're almost there!

https://mailchi.mp/f75835901d63/wciu-publications-update-51121?e=3ccf8eaebb

WCIU Publications Update 5.11.21 All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease Several WCIU constituents have contributed to this Pickwick Publications book that is in the last stages of production. The cover has just been finalized, with this excerpt on the back:

WCIU Publications Update
The Scriptural and scientific understanding of the single origin of the one human race is a truth that brings diverse peoples (or “races”) of informed humans together for a peaceful coexistence with each other in the modern world.
https://mailchi.mp/62d2917617e9/wciu-diversity-committee-contribution-to-wciu-journal?e=3ccf8eaebb

WCIU Diversity Committee contribution to WCIU Journal According to the scriptural narrative the entire human race emanates from one man and one woman. Scientific data from Mitochondrial DNA studies from the 20th century, and more recent Human Genome Project studies from this century, including Y Chromosomal studies, have begun to confirm this single or...

Women in History Month: WCIU Publications Update.
https://mailchi.mp/dc75f43513ad/womens-history-from-wciu-publications-and-library?e=3ccf8eaebb

Women's History from WCIU Publications and Library • See WCIU Journal, articles on the topic of "Women in International Development." • Also see the recent "Reflection" post by Sundee Simmons, Associate Director for Perspectives Global and WCIU MA student, "A Biblical View of International Development." • NEW: An update from WCIU's online La...

A prophetic word from the Ralph D. Winter Research Center. https://mailchi.mp/77614c815a5e/ralph-winter-on-politics-and-spiritual-life?e=3ccf8eaebb

Ralph Winter on Politics and Spiritual LIfe From the Ralph D. Winter Research Center Ralph Winter talks about politics and spiritual life in an editorial in Mission Frontiers, January-February 1990. Toward the end of the editorial he makes several prophetic remarks.     For the Communist Party to vote itself out of power in the motherland ...

Today's WCIU Publications Update: "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission," by Ralph D. Winter. I wonder how Ralph Winter would have updated his article today, in light of the past year of evangelical response to the COVID-19 pandemic?
https://mailchi.mp/3c2956ea75d4/winter-will-evangelicals-regain-the-vision-of-their-past?e=3ccf8eaebb&fbclid=IwAR261ztKysEtPePI6G059QR-i29R8wc50X0HjNxGjlrrR-6yzoBUgmmRE_c

Winter: Will Evangelicals Regain the Vision of Their Past? The WCIU Journal has a section of Ralph D. Winter articles in the center of the navigation bar. Today's update features one of these, "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission." This article was originally published in Mission Frontiers in 2007. In preparation for a regional EMS meeting last March (the...

This week's WCIU Publications Update features a list of all the Literature Guides that have been provided by WCIU's librarian, Timothy Skinner.
https://mailchi.mp/6e767745d0ba/lots-of-literature-guides?e=3ccf8eaebb

Lots of Literature Guides The WCIU Journal periodically publishes Literature Guides put together by WCIU librarian, Timothy Skinner, MLS. Here is a complete list to date.  Agricultural Missions Bioethics Cancer   Cities and Urbanization   Climate and Climatology   Cross-Cultural Communication   Environmental Education ....