Kurt Selles directs the
Global Center and teaches missions. He joined Beeson Divinity School after 19 years in Taiwan and China, where he worked with churches, taught in universities and directed the Calvin College Semester-in-China Program. He is the author of
A New Way of Belonging: Covenant Theology, China, and the Christian Reformed Church, 1921-1951, has written numerous journal articles on the Chinese church, and contributed a chapter on urban missions and the Chinese church in
For God So Loved the World: Missiological Reflections in Honor of Roger S. Greenway. His research interests are the challenges facing missions in the 21st century, the history of Christianity in China, the American mission movement, and global Christianity. He and his wife, Vicki, have three children.
