Polycentric Mission Leadership: Toward a New Theoretical Model for Global Leadership.
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years
Is the Commission Still Great? 8 Myths about Missions and What They Mean for the Church
Reviewed by Marcus Dean, Professor of intercultural studies and missions, Houghton University, and former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico for 14 years
God Shines Forth: How the Nature of God Shapes and Drives the Mission of the Church
Reviewed by Cameron D. Armstrong, Asia Graduate School of Theology, Philippines.
Cultural Identity and the Purposes of God: A Biblical Theology of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race
Reviewed by Ryan Klejment-Lavin, PhD in intercultural studies and director of Footstool Missions Center, South Korea.
The Realities of Money and Missions: Global Challenges and Case Studies
Reviewed by Chris Flanders, professor of missions, Graduate School of Theology, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas.
Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins
Reviewed by Josiah A. Stephan, professor at South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary, Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Tracing the Theology of Missions through Acts
Reviewed by Will Brooks | In his new book The Mission of the Triune God, Patrick Schreiner has done missiologists a great service by tracing the major biblical and theological themes in Acts.
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.
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.
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.