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Business as Mission under Scrutiny
If mission historians and theologians are to positively assess Business as Mission, they will need to take into consideration seven cautions.
A Closer Look at Children of the Mentally Ill in Missions
An overview of mental illness and the potential blessings and challenges of having missionaries who come from families with mental illness.
Millennials & Mission: Demystifying and Unleashing a Generation
Risking, winning, failing, and growing along with the millennials can result in a staggering blessing for the advance of God’s kingdom.
Seeking Asian-American Theologies
A group of graduate students uncover theologies of Asian-Americans at the grassroots level.
Surmounting Community Honor and Islamic Law in Muslim Culture
Church planters must reckon with the problem of how to stimulate Muslims to think creatively outside the boundaries put down by the community.
The God of Islam and the God of the Bible
Who is God?” It’s the most basic question, but one that is frequently lost sight of in discussions about insider movements and the contextualization of ministry to Muslims.
Versatile Leaders Keep Moving Forward
On March 11, 1812, William Carey was teaching a class in Calcutta when a messenger from his home base in Serampore rushed into the classroom…
A Circle of Friends
If you would like to comment directly to Paul – send email to [email protected] It is amazing how we can experience something repeatedly but until…
Leading Without Institutional Power
There are many ways to define leadership but at its core, leadership is influence. When you seek to influence other people on purpose you…
Smart Leaders Back Up
Don was the international ministries director working from the US office of a mid-size media ministry. He had oversight of 9 strategic ministry centers overseas.…
Finishing Well and the Vulnerability of Leaders
Just days before the world witnessed what the US military meant by “shock and awe” in the second Iraq War, President Bush authorized the…
What to do in the desert when you are out of water
Have you ever been led by God to a really dry place? Has God’s leading to this place been through means that even in the…
Nearing the Top of the Tower
Togetherness, oneness, cohesion and unity – we all profit from interconnectedness. And whether it be at the local or global level, benefits are derived. Arguably…
Strategy as Choice: Why Judgment and Discernment Could Make or Break Your Leadership
Regardless of your fiscal year and corresponding planning cycle, turning the page on the annual calendar tends to refocus our attention on personal as…
Other Books Received
Christie, Vance. 2013. Adoniram Judson: Devoted for Life . Ross-shire: Christian Focus Publications.
Why Cities Matter: To God, the Culture, and the Church
by Stephen T. Um and Justin Buzzard Crossway Publishers, 1300 Crescent Street, Wheaton, IL 60187, 176 pages, 2013, $15.99. —Reviewed by Kevin Book-Satterlee, Latin America…
Worship and Mission for the Global Church AND Creating Local Arts Together
Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxlogy Handbook By James Krabill, Frank Fortunato, Robin P. Harris, and Brian Schrag, eds. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth St. Pasadena, CA 91104, 580 pages, 2013, $37.49.
The Ways of the People: A Reader in Missionary Anthropology
by Alan R. Tippett, ed. Doug Priest, series ed. William Carey Library, 1605 East Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104, 686 pages, 2013, $39.99. —Reviewed by…
Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours
by Robert L. Plummer and John Mark Terry, eds. IVP Academic, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL, 60515-1426, 253 pages, 2012, $22.00. —Reviewed by David…
Green Shoots Out of Dry Ground
by John P. Bowen Wipf & Stock, 199 W.8th Ave., Suite 3 Eugene Oregon, 97401, 283 pages, 2013, $34.00. —Reviewed by Willem Fietje, president of…
Foundations for Mission
by Emma Wild-Wood and Peniel Rajkumar, eds. Regnum Books International, St. Philip and St James Church, Woodstock Road, Oxford, UK, 0X2 6HR. 309 pages, 2013,…
The Evangelization of the World: A History of Christian Mission
by Jacques A. Blocher and Jacques Blandenier, translated by Michael Park. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104, 754 pages, 2013, $49.95.…
Developing Indigenous Leaders: Lessons in Missions for Buddhist Asia
by Paul H. De Neui, ed. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104, 229 pages, 2013, $17.99. —Reviewed by Michael Lee, an…
Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context
by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Wipf & Stock Publishers, 199 West 8th Avenue, Suite 3, Eugene, OR, 97401, pp. 232, 2013, $26.00. —Reviewed by Edwin Zehner,…