Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church?
by Paul Borthwick InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL, 209 pages, 2012, $15.00. —Reviewed by Paul W. Shea, associate professor of missions at Houghton College; formerly in discipleship and theological education with Global Partners in West Africa. I had my first glance at Western Christians in Global Mission when it became available in […]
Together in One Mission: Pentecostal Cooperation in World Evangelization
by Arto Hämäläinen Pathway Press, 1080 Montgomery Avenue, Cleveland, TN 37311, 337 pages,2012, $19.95. —Reviewed by Robert L. Gallagher, director of the MA in Intercultural Studies program, and associate professor of intercultural studies at Wheaton College Graduate School. Pentecostal global mission has truly come of age. In Together in One Mission: Pentecostal Cooperation in World […]
Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience
by Brian M. Howell IVP Academic, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL, 60515, pp. 236, 2012, $20.00. —Reviewed by Sarita D. Gallagher, assistant professor of religion at George Fox University. In recent years, short-term mission (STM) has been a topic that has simultaneously drawn sharp criticism and devoted praise. In Short-Term Mission, Brian M. Howell […]
Searching for Heaven in the Real World: A Sociological Discussion of Conversion in the Arab World
by Kathryn Ann Kraft Regnum Books International, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR, UK, pp. 142, 2012, $20.00. —Reviewed by Tim Green, who has thirty years’ ministry experience among Muslims and is researching issues of identity faced by believers from a Muslim background. A growing numbers of Muslim people worldwide are […]
Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-Evangelizing the West
by Ross Hastings Intervarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426, 355 pages, 2012, $24.00. —Reviewed by JR Rozko, director of operations & advancement at Missio Alliance. Hastings gets it. The West is a mission field! But he also gets something that seems to lie beyond the gaze or grasp of many who offer […]
Missiological Hermeneutics: Biblical Interpretation for the Global Church
by Shawn B. Redford. Pickwick Publications, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 9740, 363 pages, 2012, $42.00. —Reviewed by George F. Pickens, professor of theology and missions at Messiah College. Conventional missiology argues that the missionary movement in Christian history has saved the faith from extinction. If the first Jewish Christians had failed […]
Making All Things New: God’s Dream for Global Justice
by R. York Moore Intervarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL, 60515, 170 pages, 2012, $15.00. —Reviewed by Lynn D. Shmidt, DMiss, former mission practitioner in southern Africa; associate professor at Asbury University. Global justice. Modern-day slavery. Human trafficking. These are some of the hot buttons today that sway the emotions of multitudes of […]
The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
by Nik Ripkin Nik Ripkin, with Gregg Lewis, B & H Publishing Group, One Lifeway Plaza, Nashville, TN, 37234, 322 pages, 2012, $14.99. —Reviewed by Patrick Krayer, executive director, Interserve USA. Few of us who grow up in the West and the developed East are equipped to face the horror and scope of evil in […]
The Gospel after Christendom: New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions
by Ryan K. Bolger, ed. Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 416 pages, 2012, $29.99. —Reviewed by Brian C. Hull, assistant professor of youth ministry, and director of Christian Ministries Resource Center at Asbury University. What does the Church look like in a multicultural, global, hybrid world where the categories of the […]
Faith Seeking Understanding: Essays in Memory of Paul Brand and Ralph D. Winter
by David Marshall, ed. David Marshall, ed. William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth Street, Pasadena, CA 91104, 229 pages,2012, $12.79. —Reviewed by Robert L. Gallagher, director of the MA in Intercultural Studies program, and associate professor of intercultural studies at Wheaton College Graduate School. We live in an age when people want short answers to […]