Young New Yorkers greet each other with a hearty
“Whassup?”—which translated means “What’s happening in the world around you?” In Christianity Reborn, Donald Lewis has brought together an international cadre of scholars who seek to answer this question with respect to evangelical missions at the end of the twentieth century.
This concise and highly readable book brings another perspective to the growing phenomenon of house churches.
Europe remains perhaps the most overlooked mission field in the world today. Even the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches admitted, in a recent address to the WCC’s Commission on Faith and Order, that Europe has become “a continent full of people who have never heard of the faith.”
Historians commonly view British missionaries as agents of the British Empire. Were they? What motivated these preachers of the gospel—the reign of God or the reign of Queen Victoria? This helpful collection of essays edited by Andrew Porter deals with the question of how British missionaries related to the British Empire.
Any American who wasn’t on Mars for the past year is aware of the enormous impact Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, has had on the entertainment industry and the cultural and political life of North America.
The book makes a valuable contribution by highlighting the involvement of missionaries and national Christians in the demise of colonial powers and the spread of nationalistic independence movements in Asia and Africa.
If missions are about bang for the buck, France is a bad deal.
Few words in the Christian lexicon of the early twenty-first century are as exhilarating as “revival.” The word causes one to think of cleansing fire, fresh wind and Spirit power that resuscitates comatose souls.
The United Kingdom, where only ten percent of youth attend church weekly, has recently witnessed a new mission strategy called “Youth Churches.”
Dearborn wrote this interactive workbook to resolve his own question of whether most short-term trips reflect one’s commitment to Christ or personal desire for adventure.
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