Down with ‘Heroes’
That many missionaries are heroic and do make sacrifices is undeniable, but it is not for Christian propagandists, surely, to make too much of this in…
Category: Volume 3 – Issue 3
A New ‘Graven Image’?
As soon as I saw the title of Betty Elliot's first novel, No Graven Image, I prepared myself for a good dose of iconoclasm. This is a favorite …
Luther and Missions
0n October 31 of this year Christendom celebrates the 450th anniversary of an event that decisively altered the religious climate of the Western world…
First-term Objectives
In an interview with a missionary candidate I asked, "Specifically, what do you expect to be doing when you get to the field, and how do you believe y…
Missions Must Evaluate
At the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission at Wheaton, April, 1966, it was declared: "we will engage in periodic self-criticism in the light of…
Attack Syncretism with Dialogue
DELEGATES at the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission (April, 1966) came down solidly against syncretism in their "Wheaton Declaration," insisti…