What Makes Mission Christian?
Although Christian mission may seem easily definable, there is a growing divide among evangelicals today regarding the fundamental meaning, role and p…
Category: Volume 42 – Issue 1
Middle Mission
Consider the following idea from a young person interested in overseas missions: “Maybe there would be merit in removing the categorical labels of â…
What I Have Learned from Middle Eastern Christianity
Over the last twenty years one of the great privileges of my life has been the many opportunities I have had to meet Arab Christians in Lebanon, Jorda…
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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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?