Do Universals in Music Exist?
The missions community is becoming increasingly aware of music as a means to understand peoples and communicate the gospel to them in culturally relev…
Category: Volume 35 – Issue 2
Crossing the Music Threshold
The converted Muslim imam closed all the windows, dropped the shades, and quietly, cautiously played the forbidden tape—an ancient psalm of David in…
Microsoft and Missiology
Reading Fortune magazine is not part of my routine, although I must confess that mission work at the end of the century shares some of the characteris…
Stop Writing to My Mother
You’d like my mom. She’s committed to missions, and she’d be interested in your work. There’s no detail of your life too sm…
Missions Should Not Target the Unreached
Eleven years ago my wife and I moved in among the unreached. We surveyed our area and found no believers, not one. They were unresponsive, too. I stil…
My Child in the National School
When we went to Belgium in 1982, our daughter was 4 years old. Like Belgian children that age, she was expected to be in school seven and a half hours…
Noted Ministry
The spoken verse hung in the air like the dust raised by a passing truck. The men and women in the church in Ghana waited expectantly following the re…
In Search of Ecclesolasticity
What is “ecclesiolasticity”? On the mundane level it is what came out of my mouth when I recently got my tongue twisted around two more standard i…
Weaving Your Own Website
Most of the people you want to talk with today—pastors, donors, missionaries, recruits, etc.—expect to find you on the Web. Not having a Web site …
His Ways Are Not Our Ways
Scripture shows that God has never been entirely predictable. Who could have foreseen his decision to wipe out most of humanity and start over with No…