Volume 43 – Issue 4

“May God give us grace and creativity to push the boundaries, to create, to re-evaluate, to change, to redesign, and to serve with greater effectiveness and servanthood.” This is the challenge given to all involved in mission training in this new book.

Schlorff confronts those who take contextualization too far in respect to Muslims.

The Mission Handbook is an essential book for at least two reasons: first, as the key directory and reference tool for our North American missions movement and second, as a definitive report on the progress (or decline), achievement (or lack) and health (or illness) of our sprawling, diverse, God-driven regional missions enterprise.

Five Asian female authors write eloquently with exceptional honesty and courage about how each of their own cultures fashioned them and how God uses that ethnic identity in ministry.

Philip Jenkins demonstrates how close the thought world of the global South is to that of the first century culture of the Bible.