A Church Built by Muslims
As the Muslim chief and I stood beside my white Toyota wagon, the traditional African gestures and greetings were exchanged. The scorching Saharan sun…
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A Testimony for Missions: Respect or Rejection?
How should missions proceed within the clash of civilizations? How should American missionaries operate within the context of anti-Western sentiment?
Understanding Conversion
In this article I will suggest a few key issues of conversion and then, echoing the perspectives of my friends from Russia and other countries, offer …
Sing Africa!
A pastor from the US, just last year, was invited to speak at a weeklong Christian conference in Malawi. The music that preceded his message horrified…
Art as Missions, Missions as Art
Both in evangelistic outreach and in church development, varying manifestations of the arts have taken center stage in a number of contexts.
Missions and Arts on the Web
From drama in local churches to images of Jesus in paintings and sculptures, from music reflecting God's glory in local idioms to films about Jesus, a…
Missions Has Changed: Is Our Thinking Keeping Up?
Since David Hesselgrave has publicly taken issue with the book written by Jim Engel and myself, I have been invited to write a response.
Using Indigenous Art to Communicate the Christian Message
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly ora…
We Sang Ourselves Free: Music Lessons from Estonia
I had expected the physical poverty of eastern Europe to be accompanied by artistic and spiritual poverty. I found just the opposite to be true.
Seven Ingredients of Successful TEE Programs
Seven ingredients that I discovered to be present in every successful TEE program that I researched in southern Africa.