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  Pastoral burnout, AI, and micro-credentials among top agenda for ICETE's Mombasa gathering in 2027

  Pastoral burnout, artificial intelligence, micro-credentials and the recognition of prior learning are set to dominate the agenda when the world's leading evangelical theological education body convenes in Mombasa, Kenya, in April 2027 — signaling a field grappling with pressures that traditional seminary models were never designed to address.

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  'We are stronger together': WCC General Secretary Jerry Pillay on unity, persecution, Russia and the future of ecumenism

  At the Ecumenical Centre on the Chemin du Pommier in Geneva — home to the World Council of Churches (WCC) since 1966 — Christian Daily International sat down with Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay for an exclusive and wide-ranging conversation.

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  Asian seminary journal calls for 'integrative approach' to forming whole-person Christian leaders

  A peer-reviewed journal published by the Asia Theological Association has released a volume focused entirely on how theological institutions across Asia are working to form students not just academically but spiritually, relationally, and personally — a challenge that leaders in the region say is growing more urgent.

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  Family crisis in the church traced to a 'theological failure,' ACCM panel warns

  Closing out the Asia Conference on Church & Mission on Thursday, a panel of evangelical leaders warned that one of the most serious failures in the global church is hiding in plain sight: the systematic displacement of parents as the primary disciplers of their own children.

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  At ACCM2026, panel warns Asia's churches risk raising consumers, not disciples

  Theological institutions are producing graduates ill-equipped for real-world ministry, denominational structures risk fossilizing into gatekeeping institutions, and Christian leaders across Asia are growing more exhausted than fruitful — these were among the pointed assessments delivered during the second-day morning panel of the Asia Conference on Church and Mission (ACCM), held in Manila.

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  Seminaries must balance AI's potential with the risk of bypassing genuine formation, theological educators warn

  Two leading voices at the intersection of evangelical theological education and technology are calling on seminary faculty globally to grapple seriously with artificial intelligence as a force already reshaping how students learn, write and reason — while insisting that the spiritual formation at the heart of theological education is something no machine can replicate. At an international webinar titled "AI Disruption and the Future of Theological Education,” they examined both the practical and

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  OCMS taps first director for Regnum Books to widen Global South scholarship

  Regnum Books, the publishing arm of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, has appointed Angus Crichton as its first dedicated director, a move the organization says marks a new stage in its development as a platform for theological scholarship from the Global South.

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