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…
Category: Section
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…
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…
The Secret Efficiency of Faith Missions
At a recent conference of Christian organizations, my roommate told me of a donor retreat his agency had just sponsored where the two-day cost, includ…
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?
Dowry in Africa: A Wife Purchased or a Wife Cherished?
The dowry is going the way of many other important cultural practices in Africa —down the hill of eroding values. The going rate for an educated wif…
In War and Famine: Missionaries in China’s Honan Province in the 1940’s
The title, In War and Famine, sounds like part of a wedding vow, to be followed by “in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘…
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…
Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience
Kwame Bediako is one of the most significant contemporary voices in African evangelical theology. Richly textured, in touch with history, culture, the…
Internet Resources on Contextualizing Ministry among Muslims
Perhaps no other topic has generated more recent interest—not to mention heat, light, and storms!—among missionaries than contextualizing the Chri…