The Hybrid Congregation: A Practical Theology of Worship for an Online Era   Â
The book focuses on the intersection of church music and online communication, by asking the central question: “what does the church need to under…
Tag: Research
Evangelism in an Age of Despair: Hope Beyond the Failed Promise of Happiness Â
Andrew Root’s Evangelism in an Age of Despair presents a thought-provoking take on evangelism. It is not so much a book about evangelism as about th…
Marakwet: An Ethnographic Study of Religious and Cultural Identity in Africa
Ethnographies will be complicated, and Marakwet is no exception. Cultural complexity in the social world has rarely been understood as a barrier to pr…
Ethiopian Diaspora Churches on Mission: An Intergenerational Perspective on Ethiopian Churches in the United States Â
This product of Mehari Tedla Korcho’s dissertation, Ethiopian Diaspora Churches on Mission, aims to address three core concerns: Ethiopian diaspora …
Proclaiming the Holistic Gospel: Communicating the gospel appropriately for people from diverse cultures in the US
By Soo Min (James) Park | The US, like many nations, is not a mono-cultural mission field. Beneath the surface, immigrant, refugee, minority, and youn…
The Past and Future of Funding Missions: From Everywhere to Everywhere – National Workers vs. Missionaries
By Scott Klingsmith | The direct support of national pastors and missionaries by American and European churches has been promoted as a more efficient …
Strategies for Managing Stress in Urban Mission Contexts
By John E. White | As the world urbanizes, more missionaries are living and ministering in cities. Therefore, more missionaries are encountering the s…
Recovering Monastic Values for Mission Today
By Edward L. Smither | In this article, I explore two values of historic monastic mission – study and simplicity – that contributed to missionary …
Unreadable: Another Book You Probably Won’t ReadÂ
When doing my dissertation research, I discovered that my non-reading friends learned best through trusted connections and through relational means �…
Healing the Wounds of Trauma
By Harriet Hill | In 2001, a small group met in Nairobi to put together materials to respond to traumatized people in war zones across Africa. This pr…