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…
Category: Volume 43 – Issue 3
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.
Going the Distance: Adapting Full-time Residential Curricula into Distance Format
How Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary molded its residential programs and curricula into distance format.
Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission
Stanley Skreslet, professor of mission at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, argues in this book that the study of mission should be ap…
From New Believer to Church Leader: The Value of Intermediate Steps
A disciple on the journey from new believer to leader is in need of the care of a mentor and some unhurried time to grow.