Toward Global Missional Leadership: A Journey Through Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God
By Kirk J. Franklin. Reviewed by Alexander K. Zell, assistant professor, Crown College, St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, former international worker in Brazil with The Alliance.
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, 3rd Edition
By David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, and Michael V. Pollock. Reviewed by Cheryl Doss PhD, adult missionary kid, missionary mother and grandmother, is director of the Institute of World Mission, the missionary training organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The Spirit Over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World
Gener L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K.K. Yeo, eds. Reviewed by A. Sue Russell, Professor of Mission and Contextual Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky.
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis
By Patrick Kingsley. Reviewed by Jamie N. Sanchez, PhD, Assistant Professor and Program Director of PhD Intercultural Studies, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, La Mirada, California.
The Godless Delusion: Europe and Africa
By Jim Harries. Reviewed by Prof. Rajkumar Boaz Johnson, PhD Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies North Park University, Visiting Professor SHIATS University Allahabad, India.
Spirituality in Mission: Embracing the Lifelong Journey
John Amalraj, Geoffrey W. Hahn, and William D. Taylor, eds. Reviewed by Tabor Laughlin, Intercultural Studies PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), missionary in China ten years, leader of a small mission agency in NW China, and author of Becoming Native to Win the Natives.
Shaping Christianity in Greater China: Indigenous Christians in Focus
By Paul Woods. Reviewed by John Doss, senior pastor, Discovery Christian Community, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
By David A Hollinger. Reviewed by Richard Cook, Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California. He served as a missionary in Taiwan for over ten years and has a PhD in Modern Chinese History from the University of Iowa.
Engaging Muslims & Islam: Lessons for 21st-Century American Evangelicals
By Amit A. Bhatia. Reviewed by Fred Farrokh, Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples.
Who Really Sent the First Missionaries?
Some time ago I read in the pages of a mission magazine that came to my desk an amazing statement. The writer was emphasizing his “conviction that the church, not the mission board, is the sending agency.” He added that according to the book of Acts, “the church at Antioch accepted responsibility for the Apostle Paul.” Then he went on to say that “in the 11th chapter of Acts Barnabas heard of Paul, sought him out, brought him to Antioch and helped him serve an internship in that church of not less than one year.”