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Exploring Missions in the 1500s

Reviewed by Jonathan P. Case | This collection of sixteen essays on sixteenth-century mission grew out of the 2018 annual conference of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS). Contributions from Protestant and Catholic scholars have been selected to make the case that a broad missional consciousness and spirituality spanned both Protestant and Roman Catholic renewal movements.

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How to Help without Hurting in the African Context

Reviewed by Bob Bagley | Africa has a long history of receiving agencies coming from the western world with well-intentioned ministries of compassion aimed at alleviating poverty and its accompanying ills. Despite good motives, the track record of such efforts overall has been less than stellar.

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Religious Indignity among Hindu-Background Believers

Reviewed by Anish Puthusseril Joseph | In Believing Without Belonging? Religious Beliefs and Social Belonging of Hindu Devotees of Christ, Vinod John, an Asian missiologist, examines what believing without belonging means “in the context of caste Hindu devotees of Jesus in North India” who have no interest in connecting with the local or global ecclesial establishment intentionally.

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