The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America
by Rebecca Kim Oxford University Press, 2015. —Reviewed by Pam Arlund, director of training, All Nations Family, Kansas City, MO. Missions “from everywhere to everywhere” is a common catch phrase in missions today, yet little is empirically known about missions from the Global South to the rest of the world. Rebecca Kim does an excellent […]
One Gospel for All Nations: A Practical Approach to Biblical Contextualization
by Jackson Wu William Carey Library, 2015, $19.99. —Reviewed by Nathan Hart, pastor, Stanwich Church in Greenwich, Connecticut; MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary. I grew up in the American Midwest, in a small town where most people spoke English with the same accent. I didn’t think we spoke with an accent. I thought Southerners and Long Islanders […]
Married in Mission: A Handbook for Couples in Cross-Cultural Service
by Alexis Kenny Paul Bechtold Library Publications, 2015. —Reviewed by Ken Wiggers, retired from HR Administration and Management Training, Wycliffe Bible Translators. Some of the best ‘help’ literature grows out of encountering challenges. This is the case of Alexis Kenny’s handbook, Married in Mission. Upon returning to the U.S. from a very ‘intense’ 13-month, cross-cultural […]
Journey to a Better Way: A Wesleyan Perspective on Doing Mission Better
by John Bailey WestBow Press, 2015. —Reviewed by Bob Bagley, Africa Area director, Global Partners, the missions division of the Wesleyan Church. The first thing I did after reading John Bailey’s book was to order a dozen copies to give to churches that partner with our work in Africa. It is unfortunate that his book […]
Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities: Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices
by Don Little Intervarsity Press Academic, 2015. —Reviewed by Roy Oksnevad, director of Muslim Ministries, Billy Graham Center for Evangelism. The body of Christian literature on Islam is growing and developing. Much of this is focused around evangelism, church-planting strategies, contextualization, and conversion theory. There is a dearth of literature that deals with post-conversion issues […]
Church Planting in Europe: Connecting to Society, Learning from Experience
by Evert Van de Poll and Joanne Appleton, eds. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015. —Reviewed by David R. Dunaetz, Azusa Pacific University, Claremont Graduate University, and former church planter in France. Since the 1980s, evangelical denominations and missions in Europe have heavily emphasized church planting as the most effective way to evangelize the post-Christian continent. […]
Called to Unity for the Sake of Mission
by John Gibaut & Knud Jorgensen, eds. Regnum Books International, 2014. —Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong, church planter, International Mission Board in Bucharest, Romania; PhD Intercultural Studies student, Biola University. Any attempt to document the history and development of ecumenical Christian missions promises to be fraught with challenges. Consensus concerning which groups to highlight as […]
The Future of the Orality Movement and the International Orality Network
A STORYTELLING EVENT IS HAPPENING. The news of it has been shared from person to person and interest has multiplied. Now a crowd has gathered outside the shelter where the stories will be told.
The Need for Reciprocal Contextual Collaboration in Europe
WITH PROPHETIC IMAGINATION, Andrew Walls (2002, 202) claimed that the great new fact of our time is that mission is now in reverse: from the non-Western (or Majority World) to the Western world (see Catto 2012, 91-105).
Visible Means of Support: A Clarion Call from a Donor to a Missionary
YEARS AGO, I MET A MISSIONARY who had just moved to town. “What brought you here?” I asked, trying to make conversation. “God brought me here,” he said without hesitation or further comment.