The Good News of Re-Inheritance and Disability
By Chris Masiscoming* | As a Christian working in disability ministry, I’ve discovered profound connections between Psalm 82, Jesus’s mission, and our call to justice. This psalm reveals how God is reclaiming his inheritance – including people with disabilities – from rebellious spiritual authorities.
Disability in the Church’s First Mission
By Dave Deuel | After the birth of the church, the first mission begins in Jerusalem with the healing of a man with a disability at the temple gates. This should not be surprising because people with disabilities appear throughout the Scripture narrative and especially in Jesus’s earthly ministry.
Challenging Dualism in Missiology
Reviewed by Ryan Gimple | It is not infrequent to come across missionaries who seem allergic to deeper theological discussions. I hate to admit that I have previously suffered from seasonal theological sniffles. The unfortunate dualism that pulls missionaries and theologians apart, dividing theory from practice, is an epistemological problem that T. F. Torrance challenges in many of his writings.
Overflow
Mission is the unavoidable consequence of the triune reality of God. That is Michael Reeves’ core argument in his delightful little book, Overflow.
Nurturing Faith
Nurturing Faith examines the various ways that Christians are made; organized around five “C’s” for nurturing faith: cultural dynamics, criteria, colleagues, contexts, and conversations.
The God of Our Fathers? Questioning Volf’s Muslim-Jewish Parallel
By J. David Willoughby
The Church, the Call to Mission and the Jewish People
By Geoffrey Butler
Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology
By John G. Flett and Henning Wrogemann
Missional Theology: An Introduction
By John R. Franke
For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference
By Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun