Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching
What does it mean to be an effective educator in a cross-cultural context? While several books have been written on contextualization and cultural val…
Category: Volume 40 – Issue 3
Pandita Ramabai’s America
The editor compares this work of Ramabai with Alexis Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America (13).
Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical and Practical Survey
Finding a contemporary, comprehensive, general introductory text on world missions that speaks directly to today’s generation of potential Christian…
Church Planting Movement: How God is Redeeming a Lost World
Since Garrison published his booklet, Church Planting Movements, in 2000, missionaries have been longing for more information. If readers only expecte…
A World Tour of Contextual Theologies
The number and quality of contextualization resources on the Web is constantly growing. Here we concentrate on the element of contextualization most f…
When Things Go Wrong
Ana Silvia got the shock of her life. After five years of teaching the deaf, the young school principal almost lost hope when she discovered her st…
The Pressure to Lie
When I asked missionary colleagues, “What would cause a missionary to be tempted not to be totally honest and transparent?”, two main answers surf…
Managing the Short-term Missions Explosion
Short-term missions has moved from being part of a larger missions vision and instead has become the primary goal of many missions programs. What was …
Telling the Difference
There is a need for more objective criteria to assess when contextualization has crossed the line into syncretism.
A Leadership Model for the Suffering Church
Sebastian (fictitious name) met us soon after the border officials checked all our necessary papers and approved us for entry. For several days, Seba…