Missions and Web Outreach
“Online outreach is an innovative response to today's high-tech world. It is possible to evangelize one billion people through this medium."
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Category: Volume 42 – Issue 1
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Few topics have more coverage on the Web than HIV/AIDS. A Google search results in nearly ninety million hits. Having been a major world concern for y…
A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission
Back in the early 1990s when I read through David Bosch’s
Transforming Mission—not at one sitting, the book is too large for that—my overwhelmi…
Letters to the Editor
Are We Really about Church Planting? Several quotes caught my attention in Larry Sharp’s article “Are We Really about Church Planting?&…
Early Christian Mission Vol. 1: Jesus and the Twelve; Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church
Eckhard Schnabel has written the most detailed and comprehensive history within the last one hundred years of the Christian missionary movement in the…
Insider Movements and Outsider Missiology
There is confusion today between process and purpose. That which is a common phase in the conversion of individuals is being made by many into an ulti…
Exploring the Depths of the Mystery of Christ: K. Subba Rao’s Eclectic Praxis of Hindu Discipleship
In what ways might Christianity and Hinduism properly engage one another? What does true and dynamic faith and worship look like in India?
The Secret Efficiency of Faith Missions
At a recent conference of Christian organizations, my roommate told me of a donor retreat his agency had just sponsored where the two-day cost, includ…
In War and Famine: Missionaries in China’s Honan Province in the 1940’s
The title, In War and Famine, sounds like part of a wedding vow, to be followed by “in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘…
Dowry in Africa: A Wife Purchased or a Wife Cherished?
The dowry is going the way of many other important cultural practices in Africa —down the hill of eroding values. The going rate for an educated wif…