by Gerald R. McDermott and Harold A. Netland 2014. Oxford University Press. —Reviewed by Amit A. Bhatia (PhD, Intercultural Studies), adjunct professor, Trinity International University. In the twenty-first century, in which seventy-nine percent of the world’s population claim to believe in God and have a global awareness of religious others, we find a context which . . . read more

by Samuel E. Chiang and Grant Lovejoy, eds. International Orality Network in cooperation with Capstone Enterprises. 2014. —Reviewed by Lynn Thigpen, IMB missionary, Southeast Asia; PhD student, Intercultural Education, Biola University,  One dissertation writer in the field of orality calls the gap between oral learners and the highly literate an abyss. As someone working in . . . read more

by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk, eds. IVP Academic. 2014.  —Reviewed by Dr. Jared Looney, executive director, Global City Mission Initiative.  Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations is a collection of essays from a diverse range of authors resulting from a theological roundtable addressing postcolonial theology and praxis. It provides a helpful reader for . . . read more

by Chandler H. Im & Amos Yong, eds. Cascade Books. 2014. —Reviewed by Tenny Li Farnen, of Chinese descent, born and grew up in the Philippines and migrated to the USA. Global diasporas and migration are God’s ways of facilitating the accomplishment of the Great Commission for Christians around the world. As mentioned in the . . . read more