Editorial: Why I Don’t Believe in Closure
Closure has crept into missionary thinking, but it doesn’t belong there.
Closure has crept into missionary thinking, but it doesn’t belong there.
It’s a word I have come to hate—overused and commonly misused. But perched unmistakably over decision making in the mission enterprise are two “paradigms.”
The root of development failure in Africa is a faulty world view.
As the world gets younger, missionaries face a complex array of social problems.
For the past three years, cultural exchanges have placed English-speaking Christian students in Tunisian homes,” a ministry leader reports.
Desire for change in the way we do mission training in North America has been a burr under a lot of saddles for a long time.
No, strategy isn’t the right word, because Jesus didn’t give us strategies for world evangelization. He gave us relationships between himself and his Father and between himself and us.
The bloom may not be quite off the rose of South Korea’s civilian-led democracy, but the country’s once intoxicating political aroma has definitely soured.
This remarkable story has many valuable lessons.
Storytelling is the answer to the boring cognitive approach.
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