Collaborative Contextual Theology: Lessons from Thailand
By Steve Taylor | Contextualizing theology is challenging, and discernment is needed to know the difference between biblical truths and cultural belie…
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Contextualization Can Be Messy
By John Devalve | My wife and I lived in a remote predominantly Muslim region of West Africa with few believers for more than a decade. Not long afte…
United in Christ to Spread the Gospel
By Ximena Cardona Bastidas | God created a world full of variations, and we move within this diversity. God designed these differences to foster compl…
Revamping the C-Spectrum for Contextualization
By Harley Talman | The C-Spectrum introduced more than 20 years ago provided a tool to categorize different types of Christ-centered communities among…
Equipping the Black Church for Global Mission
By Phyllis Johnson | The Black church has been underrepresented in global mission for more than 100 years. An appropriate educational model for missio…
Contextualization and Amazonian Indigenous Peoples
By Irma Espinoza | For the gospel to be most effectively received, it must be oriented to the receiver. This contextualized approach safeguards the fi…
Was Paul a ‘Missionary’?
By Phil King | Michael Stroope’s book, Transcending Mission, offers a semantic challenge on the use of the words mission, missionary and missional. …
Can Digital Make Us Human Again?
By Justin Sooter | How can Christians live in a world where we are glued to screens and where verbal communication seems to be going out of style? Ho…