New Models of Mission
By Evelyn Hibbert | The growth of the church in the Majority World and its decline in traditional sending countries is causing significant changes in …
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The Challenges of Integrating New Mission Sending and Old Mission Organizations
By Maria Lopez | Based on significant personal experience interfacing between traditional international western sending agencies and new sending natio…
How Can Western Churches Still Contribute to World Mission?
By Stewart Hunt | Whilst most agree that the future of mission involves global collaboration, the role of the Western church has become unclear. Howev…
Developments in Mission Sending from China
By Brent Fulton | Hundreds of Mainland Chinese Christians serve as missionaries around the world and thousands more minister among China’s unreached…
Reimagining the Arts in Mission
By Heather Pubols | The arts have long been an important part of missions. Yet a historical preference for importing Western art forms into non-Wester…
Islamic Law Meets Christian Apologetics
Suheil Madanat’s “evidential apologetics” (17) provides an original and objective approach to persuade Muslims on the authenticity of the New Te…
Unlocking Creativity
I had the privilege of studying under Brian Schrag in 2008 as he developed the ideas that eventually became Creating Local Arts Together. As I prepare…
The Essence of Translation
The purpose of this volume, Islam and the Bible, is to assess the nature, impact, and value of Muslim Idiom Translations of the Bible (MITs). It is a …
Understanding Islamic Terms and Practices
Islam is the world’s second most widely practiced religion, with “over 1.6 billion followers” (xx). Christians all over the world, in nearly eve…
Breaking Barriers to Evangelism
In his book Gospel Issues for the Global Church, Brent H. Burdick addresses “gospel issues,” which he identifies as concerns that pose a hindrance…