Posts Tagged "global"

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Posted on October 16, 2019

Split Peas and Asylees

In Portland, Maine, last spring, a number of food production workers stopped washing their hands, and it was Abbey Mitchell’s job to find out why.

Posted on September 30, 2019

Heather Templeton Dill on the Future of Religion

Last April, the first picture of a black hole went viral. It was a low-res image of a bright yellow disc with a dark hole in the middle, similar in shape to a donut.

Posted on September 13, 2019

Healing Post-Soviet Ukraine through Music

When Yo-Yo Ma—perhaps the world’s most famous living classical musician—played his cello at the border entry point in Laredo, Texas, last April, it was a perfect example of how the culture of classical music is changing.

Posted on March 19, 2019

Gordon College to Award Five Honorary Doctorates at Commencement

The College will award honorary doctorates to entrepreneur Rev. Dr. Kwabena Darko, evangelist Beth Moore, education expert Solano Portela-Terra, talent acquisition guru Russell Reynolds and local church leader Rev. Dr. Wesley A. Roberts.

Posted on March 18, 2019

Revolutionizing Reading in Liberia

In Harbel, Margibi County, Liberia—a community once shattered by two civil wars that propagated the use of child soldiers—Ollie White ’18 is building Beautiful Beginnings.

Posted on February 28, 2019

Loving and Serving from the Meta to the Mundane

An operative legal system has the power to effect change for good. And that's why “I just became convinced that the legal system is something I wanted to be a part of in some way,” says contract immigration attorney Alice (Anderson) Bohn ’12, J.D.

Posted on November 7, 2018

Missiologist to Join Department of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministries

Rev. Dr. Daniel S.H. Ahn is Gordon’s newest professor of biblical studies and Christian ministries. As a missiologist, he has trained missionaries and taught theology in more than six countries from East Asia to North Africa.

Posted on September 18, 2018

President Michael Lindsay Speaks at United Nations

President Michael Lindsay addressed international leaders as the keynote speaker for the United Nations' 33rd Annual International Prayer Breakfast on September 18.

Posted on September 18, 2018

Receiving the 'Permesso di Soggiorno': 20 Years of Gordon in Orvieto

Over a decade of conversations, including during a sojourn in Italy, John Skillen and Bruce Herman thoughtfully gave shape to an innovative study abroad program, which piloted in 1998 in the small, historic Italian hill-city of Orvieto.

Posted on April 16, 2018

Expanding Worldviews, Serving the Global Church

Posted on March 15, 2018

World Vision CEO Explores Calling and Current Humanitarian Crises

Last week during Connect 2018, a college visit day dedicated to helping future Gordon students explore their calling, World Vision Canada CEO Dr. Michael Messenger ’90 visited campus for a Conversation with the President.

Posted on December 5, 2017

U.S. Ambassador Gives Gordon an Inside Look at Modern-day Diplomacy

According to Chapman, the U.S. ambassador to Ecuador, real international diplomacy works a little differently than it does on 'Madame Secretary.'