Issues of Identity in a Muslim Context: Common Ground?
For the last decade there has been an ongoing debate in mission circles on appropriate limits to contextualization among various socio-religious group…
Category: Volume 44 – Issue 1
China’s Christian Martyrs
Hattaway does the reader a service by keeping the book unbiased as he even-handedly relates persecution of Christ-followers across Mainland China.
Revered for All the Wrong Reasons
As the crowd pressed against the bus windows, I felt more like a rock star than a Christ-like servant. White people rarely taxied down the winding dir…
Evangelism after Christendom: The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness
Evangelism is a bad word. Evangelism conveys an attitude of superiority that is offensive to Western cultural ideals and cultures dominated by religio…
The Importance of Missionary Fit: Fleshing Out Giftedness and Calling
God gifts individuals in such a way that his purposes will be accomplished in a community. But this requires both the missionary and mission agency to…
Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage the New Flat Earth
Building on Thomas Friedman’s “flat earth” summary of globalization, Roberts’ intent is to cast a vision—presumably for leaders in North Ame…