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Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 8 of 40 · 942 in all.

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Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church

This book seeks to open a window “on the way that Christians in the early centuries of our faith thought about the task of global mission” (page vii).

Global Strategies
29 Aug 2023
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Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership

This book’s goal is “to find a better approach to leadership in a world where everything—from supply chains to political conflict to the church—is global” (page 22).

Executive Leadership
25 Jul 2023
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A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad

Reviewed by David Cashin, professor of intercultural studies at Columbia International University, who served nine years in Bangladesh and is also the author of a book on the life of Muhammad, Muhammad and the People of the Book.

Global Strategies
1 Jul 2023
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Theology of Mission: A Concise Biblical Theology

Reviewed by Marvin J. Newell, ambassador at large for Missio Nexus. With this book, J.D. Payne has provided the current generation with an easy-to-read update on the biblical theology of mission.

Special Topics
1 Jul 2023
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Mobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Age of Missions

Reviewed by Edward L. Smither, professor of intercultural studies and history of global Christianity at Columbia International University

Mobilization
1 Jul 2023
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Missiological Reflections on Life and Mission

Reviewed by Brent H. Burdick, DMin, adjunct professor of missions, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina, and director of the Lausanne Movement’s Global Classroom.

Global Strategies
1 Jul 2023
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Faith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church

Reviewed by Richard Cook, professor of Church history and missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California, and a former missionary in Taiwan.

People Care and Development
1 Jul 2023
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Stick Figures Save the World: Drawing Simply to Share Jesus Well.

Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years

Training
1 Jul 2023
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Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership.

Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years

Executive Leadership
1 Jul 2023
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Is the Commission Still Great? 8 Myths about Missions and What They Mean for the Church

Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years

Global Strategies
1 Jul 2023
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God Shines Forth: How the Nature of God Shapes and Drives the Mission of the Church

Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong, Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines.

Special Topics
1 Jul 2023
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Cultural Identity and the Purposes of God: A Biblical Theology of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race

Reviewed by Ryan Klejment-Lavin, PhD in intercultural studies and director of Footstool Missions Center, South Korea.

Global Strategies
1 Jul 2023
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Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins

Reviewed by Josiah A. Stephan, professor at South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary, Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Special Topics
1 Jul 2023
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The Realities of Money and Missions: Global Challenges and Case Studies

Reviewed by Chris Flanders, professor of missions, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.

Finance Admin and Legal
1 Jul 2023
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Embracing the New Samaria: Opening our Eyes to our Multiethnic Future

This book seeks “to help Christian leaders learn to see, love, reach, and ultimately be the New Samaria” (page 11).

Executive LeadershipGlobal Strategies
27 Jun 2023
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New Funding Models for Global Mission: Learning from the Majority World

This book is about conversion in the contexts of the poor. It raises questions about the God that the poor seek and about how conversions happen.

Finance Admin and Legal
22 May 2023
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The God that the Poor Seek: Conversion, Context, and the World of the Vulnerable

This book is about conversion in the contexts of the poor. It raises questions about the God that the poor seek and about how conversions happen.

Global StrategiesPeople Care and Development
18 Apr 2023
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Tracing the Theology of Missions through Acts

Reviewed by Will Brooks | In his new book The Mission of the Triune God, Patrick Schreiner has done missiologists a great service by tracing the major biblical and theological themes in Acts.

Global Strategies
28 Mar 2023
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Exploring Missions in the 1500s

Reviewed by Jonathan P. Case | This collection of sixteen essays on sixteenth-century mission grew out of the 2018 annual conference of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS). Contributions from Protestant and Catholic scholars have been selected to make the case that a broad missional consciousness and…

Global Strategies
28 Mar 2023
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How to Help without Hurting in the African Context

Reviewed by Bob Bagley | Africa has a long history of receiving agencies coming from the western world with well-intentioned ministries of compassion aimed at alleviating poverty and its accompanying ills. Despite good motives, the track record of such efforts overall has been less than stellar.

Training
28 Mar 2023
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Religious Indignity among Hindu-Background Believers

Reviewed by Anish Puthusseril Joseph | In Believing Without Belonging? Religious Beliefs and Social Belonging of Hindu Devotees of Christ, Vinod John, an Asian missiologist, examines what believing without belonging means “in the context of caste Hindu devotees of Jesus in North India” who have no interest in…

Global Strategies
28 Mar 2023
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A Missional Reading of Revelation

Reviewed by David Greenlee | Dean Flemming’s Foretaste of the Future offers us a fresh, missional reading of Revelation, referred to by the publisher as the first missional reading of Revelation as a whole.

Special Topics
28 Mar 2023
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African Christianity and African Independent Churches

Reviewed by George F. Pickens | The demographic shift of Christianity to the Global South has both fascinated and bemused scholars, yet one result is certain. Africa is now the most Christianized continent, and for students of African Christianity, it is clear that African Independent Churches (AICs) have been…

Global StrategiesTraining
28 Mar 2023
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Challenging Dualism in Missiology

Reviewed by Ryan Gimple | It is not infrequent to come across missionaries who seem allergic to deeper theological discussions. I hate to admit that I have previously suffered from seasonal theological sniffles. The unfortunate dualism that pulls missionaries and theologians apart, dividing theory from practice, is…

Global Strategies
28 Mar 2023