The Capacity to be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength by Clemens Sedmak
Clemens Sedmak takes readers on a tour which spans the globe and plums the depths of the human spirit. Along the way, he introduces a diverse cast of …
Category: Book Reviews
Intercultural Ministry: Hope for a Changing World edited by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Intercultural ministry is “the defining theological line of the twenty-first century.” So begins this volume of fifteen essays that seeks to answe…
Engaging Globalization: The Poor, Christian Mission, and Our Hyperconnected World by Bryant L. Myers
Globalization is complex, highly debated, and often misunderstood. A number of Christians, acting out of fear, seek to resist globalization. Others, b…
Encountering the History of Missions: From the Early Church to Today by John Mark Terry and Robert L. Gallagher
John Mark Terry and Robert L. Gallagher, articulating their thesis in the concluding chapter of the book, assert that we can learn from both the succe…
Building Bridges to Oral Cultures: Journeys Among the Least-reached by Carla Bowman with James Bowman
I agree with the importance of taking an oral approach to sharing the Good News about Jesus Christ because there are over four billion people in the w…
Churches on Mission: God’s Grace Abounding to the Nations edited by Geoff Hartt, Christopher R. Little, and John Wang
Samuel Escobar’s analysis in his work The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone that the new global mission is characterized by…
African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, and Impact Edited by Robert J. Priest and Kirimi Barine
Evangelical Christianity’s explosive growth on much of the African continent cannot be fully understood without paying attention to the leaders God …
Faith-Based Development: How Christian Organizations Can Make a Difference, by Bob Mitchell
Reviewed by Jerry M. Ireland
Training Missionaries: Principles and Possibilities, by Evelyn Hibbert and Richard Hibbert
Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong
The Last Christians: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East, by Andreas Knapp
Reviewed by Matthew Friedman