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International Development: Helping or Hurting?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

Some thoughts to guide us as we seek to influence a justice movement underway. Together, if we tread humbly, we can fulfill our calling to bring healing to the broken world around us.

Folk Religions

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

Previously, we wrote about Religions on the Web (October 2002). In this installment, we will focus more closely on what are called folk or popular religions.

A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1896-1945

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

by William Lawrence Svelmoe University of Alabama Press, Box 870380, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380, 2008, 400 pages, $46.00. —Reviewed by Dave Broucek, EMQ book review editor.  When we evangelical missionaries write our own books, we tell our stories as we want them to be told. A New Vision for Missions tells our story as researched by . . . read more

Doing Missions Like It’s 1930?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

History seldom repeats itself in exactly the same way, although there are times when things look eerily similar. This present period looks a lot like the early 1930s.

China’s Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832–1905

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

by Alvyn Austin Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Eerdmans, 2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49505, 2007, xxxii + 506 pages, $45.00. —Reviewed by Ryan Dunch, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Few stories in the history of missions have been told more often or more . . . read more

Which Should Come First—Discipleship or Church Planting?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

The classic debate is an impassioned one with the goal of igniting the hearts of devout church planters, evangelists, and teachers.

Communicating Christ through Story and Song: Orality in Buddhist Contexts

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

Communicating Christ through Story and Song; Orality in Buddhist Contexts is a collection of papers presented by practitioners working among Buddhists.

The Toddler’s School of Missiology: Everything I Needed to Know about Church Planting I Could Have Learned from My Children

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

The author, a church planter in Burkina Faso, details how child-rearing and church planting can reveal similar lessons.

Faith of Our Fathers: God in Ancient China

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

Thong writes persuasively that God wants the Chinese people to know him and to love him, and to that purpose has left many markers or signposts scattered throughout Chinese history and culture.

A Story of Phenomenal Success: Indigenous Mission Training Centers and Myanmar

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Ted Esler
April 1, 2009

Four transferable principles that make an indigenous church-planting movement more likely to succeed.

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