Scholars
Langham Scholar and Keswick speaker says top degrees ‘open doors’ for South Asian leaders
Havilah was also one of the speakers at this year’s Keswick Convention. This article comes from an interview conducted by our partners in New Zealand last year. Havilah has some very good reasons for believing that higher degrees are not simply academic notches on a belt, but significant door-openers for changing society. Havilah’s first career…
Read MoreScholar brings biblical truth to Papua New Guinea
“Instead of allowing our beliefs to influence scripture, we need to allow scripture to influence our beliefs,” emphasises Langham Scholar George Mombi, from Papua New Guinea (PNG). George has been working on his PhD since 2015 at Otago University, New Zealand. He’s recently returned to PNG to continue teaching at the…
Read MoreA passion for transformation across Africa
Langham Scholar Dr Sunday Agang has a passion to see Christians in his native Nigeria equipped to live with bold faith that brings the Gospel outside of the church and seminary walls and into society. Nigeria is ranked #12 on Open Doors’ list of the top 50 countries where persecution is very high. He says Christianity…
Read More‘Theological education in Africa will be renewed because of Langham’
Last month, Kenyan Langham Scholar Rev Dr David Tarus was appointed as the new Executive Director of the Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA). He began his PhD at McMaster Divinity College, Canada, in 2013, graduating in 2017. Since David returned to Kenya, with his wife Jeane and children, he has pastored and taught…
Read MoreFrom the margins, for the margins
Fifteen years ago, Langham Scholar Athena Gorospe gave a devotional in which she called her audience – wealthy American Christians – to be downwardly mobile. That morning in Pasadena, she argued that they should recover “Jesus’s concern for the marginalised, the invisible people.” Athena has dedicated herself to this plea – and to practicing what…
Read MoreShaping future leaders… 7000 miles apart!
Despite living over 7,000 miles apart, Langham Scholars Oleksandr Geychenko and Yuzo Adhinarta have much in common. They are both now presidents of Bible colleges in their home countries. Two Scottish churches ‘adopted’ Oleksandr while he studied at St Andrews as his wife and two daughters stayed in Ukraine. Oleksandr was installed as President…
Read MorePray for Langham Scholar Sofanit Abebe
Langham Scholar Sofanit Abebe asked for prayer at Langham Partnership UKI’s Vision Day last month. Sofanit, who is from Ethiopia, is currently studying for a PhD in New Testament at Edinburgh University. She said: “I would appreciate your prayers in four areas. First, my studies, that I would be able to focus on writing with clarity…
Read MorePhD teachers use study room at Tyndale House
Langham Partnership is committed to the teaching of teachers and pastors. That’s why we’re investing in lecturers at Majority World seminaries who teach PhD students. It is vital for those who teach on doctoral programmes to keep their own research and writing up to date. This enables them to guide students working at the cutting-edge of…
Read MoreScholar shapes future leaders in Ukraine
A Langham Scholar, who studied for a PhD at the University of St Andrews, was recently inducted as head of a Bible college in his home country Ukraine. This is an answer to many prayers. Oleksandr Geychenko now has the opportunity to shape future church leaders through his role at Odessa Theological Seminary (OTS). The inauguration…
Read MoreVision Day moves and inspires
On Saturday nearly 100 people were moved and inspired at Langham Partnership UKI’s first ‘Vision Day’, held at All Souls, Langham Place. During the course of the day, attendees heard of what God is doing around the world through Langham’s Preaching, Literature and Scholars programmes. Taras Dyatlik, Project Manager for Langham Literature’s Slavic Bible Commentary,…
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