The Chinese churches are at critical point in their mission outreach. Awakened and zealous, they are bound to supply global Christian mission with new blood and energy.
by Basil Scott Primalogue Publishing Media. #32 2nd Cross, Hutchins Road, St. Thomas Town PO, Bangalore 560 084 India, 208 pages, 2013, $9.99 Kindle. —Reviewed by Joel Rainey, executive
Although reinterpreting Muhammad’s prophethood may lead us to a more respectful witness, we must remember that it is no witness at all if we intentionally miscommunicate.
by Eddie Gibbs Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 272 pages, 2013, $20.99. —Reviewed by Brian Lays, MDiv student, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. There is little doubt
Jesus was the master storyteller. He often taught people in the form of parables. Shouldn’t we do the same?
by Scott W. Sunquist Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 464 pages, 2013, $34.99. —Reviewed by Brendan A. Ashley, MDiv student with a church planting emphasis,
An analysis of local attempts at theologizing within a cultural context is a tool for establishing foci for ministry.
A simplified, yet thorough method for small-scale and personal research in missions.
The author shows how unclear constructs hurt the cause of integration, and suggests a more fundamental point of integration for church planting and social action.
The woman told me her story quietly as we huddled around the table in her cramped home in Serbia. She was younger than me, and yet her face bore the deeply worn evidence of hardship and struggle for survival. Like many other Romani people in Eastern Europe, she was impoverished and illiterate, and I found myself completely captured by her story. Married at 16, she had her first of seven children at 17. Both of the men who fathered her children were abusive alcoholics.
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