#Iwitness: When Stories Collide in a Small Fishing Town
It took four days, three ferries, two motorbikes, and a giant motorized canoe to reach an island community of fishermen and pearl farmers.
#Iwitness: Transformation in the Mountains of Haiti
This story takes place a few years back just before the earthquake in the country of Haiti, a land rife with political upheaval and difficulties. Drug trafficking and gang activity have been a part of the complicated mix of problems for many years.
#Iwitness: Joyful in the Midst of Sufferings: A Life Devoted to Christ in Cambodia
Mr. Bun Song is one of the elders of a local church in a rural city in Cambodia. He used to work for a military. It was years ago when he heard of the salvation of Jesus for the first time through a Bible school student who came from Phnom Penh to share the good news in his city.
#Iwitness: Ministry among the Makua-Metto People of Mozambique
Just a few days shy of our family’s tenth anniversary of serving here in northern Mozambique, we experienced a home invasion. Armed thieves broke into our home, and my wife, Rachel, and I were held at gunpoint as they stole money and computers.
#Iwitness: Teaching in Chiapas, Mexico
I was standing at the window watching a dog bark across the street. It took a few minutes to realize the dog was on the roof of a house. It took me until the next day to realize the dog lived on the roof! Throughout the city, dogs lived on low, flat, and colorful roofs. I was in Chiapas, Mexico.
Where the Cross Meets the Street
by Noel Castellanos Intervarsity Press, 2015. —Review by Tim Baldwin, adjunct professor, Educational Ministries, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. When Noel Castellanos and his wife moved to San Jose, they purchased a house one block from the infamous King & Story intersection where tattooed “low riders” encountered gangsters-turned-evangelists. What Castellanos observed at that intersection led him […]
Our Global Families: Christians Embracing Common Identity in a Changing World
by Todd M. Johnson and Cindy M. Wu Baker Academic, 2015. —Reviewed by Edward L. Smither, dean, Intercultural Studies, Columbia International University. In this new work, Todd Johnson and Cindy Wu offer Christ-followers the tools to understand and engage two families—the Global Body of Christ and the non-Christian, human family. In parts one and […]
Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God’s People, Going Out in God’s Name
by Ruth Meyers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. —Reviewed by Michael Jordan, dean of the chapel, Houghton College. Ruth Meyers’ Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission attempts to reconcile the tension many Christians feel between the central practice of our faith—worship—and the intuition we have that our faith compels us beyond simple worship and into participation […]
The Mission of Preaching: Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness
by Patrick W. T. Johnson IVP Academic, 2015. —Reviewed by Dennis J. Horton, associate professor, Religion; associate director, Ministry Guidance, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. The significant shift in Western culture—from modernism to postmodernism, from Christendom to post-Christendom—requires a corresponding shift in the way Christians approach their witness within our increasingly missionary context. While several authors […]
Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World
by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, K.K. Yeo, eds. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. —Reviewed by Michael Hakmin Lee, PhD, adjunct professor, Intercultural Studies, Lincoln Christian University. Jesus without Borders is the inaugural book in the new Majority World Theology series, one that recognizes the unfolding reality of major demographic shifts within the […]