Unity in Community: The Vision of the Church in Ephesians
“You keep talking about community, but all we can think of is the neighborhood where we live,” is the response I got.
Category: Volume 42 – Issue 1
Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions
It’s great to see Christians meeting with Muslims to discuss how we can get along—and even better when the Christian representatives share a firm …
Education for Behavior Change: Three Essential Stories
Motivating people to change behavior is difficult. We hang tenaciously onto habits because they have deep roots in our cultural values and beliefs.
Not Less Than Everything: The Courageous Women Who Carried the Christian Gospel to China
In 1900, two-thirds of the missionaries serving in China were women. Not Less Than Everything by Valerie Griffiths details the stories of such women, …
Practical Suggestions for Good Stewardship in Medical Missions
Most short-term medical missions today are using massive amounts of resources. And yet, people are still living in unsanitary conditions and having to…
Sharing Jesus Holistically with the Buddhist World
Intentional mission activity has been done among Buddhists since Xavier in the sixteenth century. Yet little fruit have come from these efforts.
Development: A Term in Need of Transformation
What is development? The question was raised in a letter from several missionary colleagues I had recruited for Leadership Education And Development (…
Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness
A follow-up to the authors’ Missional Church (1998), a general study of missional congregations, the present work focuses on nine groups that are di…
Reflections on the Loss of Dale
Paul and Dale Stock were born and grew up in Pakistan. Their parents, Fred and Margie Stock, have been serving in Pakistan for nearly fifty years.
Grace and Greed in a People Movement to Christ in Nepal
The most astonishing story to come out of the church in Nepal since its inception fifty years ago is the movement to Christ of a large number of peopl…