Group photo from #YaleEdin2026, on “Popular, Folk, Grassroots and Pop Culture in World Christianity and the History of Mission.”

The caption to this image reads: 'Grace - a very good worker - Aro Chuku church 1943.' The photograph was included in an album created by Emily Godfrey, of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, in Abia State, Nigeria. (CSWC20/1/5/95) #PhotoFriday

The latest issue of Studies in World Christianity has landed! The theme of this special issue is "Christianity, Democracy, and Nationalism," based on #YaleEdin2025 and edited by Dr Pedro Feitoza. Check it out 👉🏼 cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/10/st…

Operating room in the London Missionary Society's hospital in Hankow, China, circa 1905-1912. Out of the 95 LMS missionaries in China in 1900, 26 were fully qualified doctors. (CSWC47/LS1/38) #PhotoFriday

Indian patients at the Chanpatia dispensary gather for a 'quiet talk' with missionary Peter Wynd (seated in the wicker chair) about 1906. (CSWC33/OS14) #PhotoFriday

It’s been wonderful to have Centre alumnus, Rev Dr Jooseop Keum deliver the 2026 Cunningham Lectures!

These two men, identified as 'Alfred' and 'Enoch', assisted in the dispensary run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in Ama Achara, Nigeria. They were photographed around July 1929. (CSWC20/1/7/2/1) #PhotoFriday

#YaleEdin2027 will be held in Kenya on the theme “Economies, Power, and Mission in World Christianity.” We are grateful for colleagues in Nairobi who have begun preparing for the conference and look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/2026/09/fo…

This hand-tinted slide shows Chinese pilgrims outside the entrance arch to a Chinese temple or holy site sometime around 1905 to 1914. (CSWC47/LS1/8) #PhotoFriday

These girls from a mission school in Jammu, India, demonstrate their embroidery skills. (CSWC47/LS10/50) #photofriday

Jamaican boys learning to make string from sisal fibre. The image comes from a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Jamaica. (CSWC47/LS11/48) #PhotoFriday

This woman is grinding corn using a stone wheel, China, ca. 1905-1914. The courtyard appears to be decorated for the spring festival. (CSWC47/LS1/5) #PhotoFriday

Missionaries from the Regions Beyond Missionary Union identified this child as a 'boy priest' in Siwan, India, around 1906. (CSWC33/OS14/29) #PhotoFriday

Hezekiya Tweya and Walter Elmslie photographed after Tweya's ordination at Bandawe in present-day Malawi, 18 May 1914. (CSWC47/LS3/1/54) #PhotoFriday

These missionary nurses and toddler pose in Peru about 1947. The woman in the foreground may be Jessie L Norton. In the background is Annie G Soper, who founded the Peruvian Indian Mission in 1930. (CSWC33/OS13) #PhotoFriday

Four men and a sedan chair, China, ca. 1905-1914. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and was created by Charles Somerville, a medical missionary who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914. (CSWC47/LS1/52) #PhotoFriday

These boys are gathered in front of a school in Chanpatia, Bihar, India in 1914. The Regions Beyond Missionary Union opened Chanpatia as a mission district in 1905. (CSWC33/OS14/62) #PhotoFriday

'You are the salt of the earth' (Matt. 5:13). This woman is preparing salt near Okposi, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1930-1940. Okposi is the site of a saltwater lake, where salt production has been an important activity since the area was first inhabited. (CSWC47/LS9/43) #PhotoFriday

This church in Mukden (present-day Shenyang) exhibits the indigenisation of Christianity in its use of both Western and Chinese architectural elements. (CSWC47/LS8/31) #PhotoFriday

Men and women at a fair (or 'mela') in the village of Thawe, in Gopalganj, Bihar, India. The Durga Temple there is a major Hindu pilgrimage site. The photograph was taken in 1905 by Alexander Banks of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. (CSCNWW33/OS14/47) #PhotoFriday