Business as Mission Resources
The blending of business with mission is as old as Paul’s tentmaking work in New Testament times. However, over the past two hundred years many evan…
Category: Volume 43 – Issue 3
The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do
From the wrenching opening of Chrub’s induction by her mother into life as a Phnom Penh prostitute to the book’s closing vignette in which Sukunth…
Our Readers Write
Assessing Intercultural Sensitivity
I read with interest Dan Sheffield’s article in the January 2007 EMQ (“Assessing Intercultura…
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
For centuries, cities have been on the receiving end of a disproportionately small part of mission endeavors, but readers of Rodney Stark’s latest b…
Missiology—Good Medicine and a Fourth Leg
I have sometimes joked that like a bowl of fruit, a missiologist is a missionary that has gone bad from spending too much time sitting around tables.
Globalizing Theology: Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity
Mosaic books are always a challenge to read and review, unless they have clear integrators—convergence factors for diverse essays. Globalizing Th…
Fruit Salad Anyone?
The problem with speaking about “mission” and “service” in the same breath is like the proverbial query of comparing apples and oranges.
Innovation in Mission: Insights into Practical Innovations Creating Kingdom Impact
Editors Jim Reapsome and Jon Hirst and eleven authors provide twentieth and twenty-first century examples of innovation in world mission.
Training Leaders: A Functioning Model for Missionaries
An example of how Church Based Training is being used in Austria, Germany and Switzerland to train local leaders.
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative
Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God unpacks a much more audacious proposal: that mission is the basis of the entire Bible.