2013: Dr. Lamin Sanneh, Yale University Divinity School – “The Last Great Frontier: Resurgence and Divergence in World Christianity”
2014: Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University – “Healing and World Christianity”
2015: Dr. Lauren Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University – ” Christian Diversity in China during the Past 200 Years”
2016: Dr. Habib Malik, Lebanese American University, Byblos Campus – “What Native Christians in the Middle East Continue to Face: Why it Matters for Both the Caring and the Unconcerned”
2017: Dr. Derek Peterson, University of Michigan – “Nonconformist Christianity in Africa’s Cultural History”
2018: Dr. Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter, U.K. – “The Political Theology of Indian Christian Citizenship: Krishna Mohan Banerjee to K.T. Paul
2019: Dr. Choon-Leong Seow, Vanderbilt University Divinity School – “Faces of Job in World Christianity”
2021: Dr. Herman Tull, Princeton, NJ – “19th Century Christian Missionaries and the Construction of Otherness in India”
2022: Dr. Christal Whelan, Barre, MA – “From Persecution to World Heritage: The Loaded Legacy of Japan’s Hidden Christians”
2023: Dr. Courtney Handman, University of Texas at Austin – “Secrecy, Deception, and Other Forms of Christian Language”
2024: Dr. Erika Helgen, Yale University – “Religious Conflict in Brazil”
2017 Earl A. Pope Annual Guest Lecture in World Christianity –
Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan
“Non-Conformist Christianity in Africa’s Cultural History”
2015 Earl A. Pope Annual Guest Lecture in World Christianity –
Dr. Lauren Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University,
“Christian Diversity in China during the Past 200 Years:
Post-Secular Visions and their Scholarly Significance”
Pfister lecture – April 2015 – Transcript