It’s ten o’clock. Do you know what your missionaries are doing?

Today I was sent a link to an excellent overview on the current state of affairs regarding contextualization by Christians in their outreach to Muslims.  It is by Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo and is entitled, "Recent Changes in Christian Approaches to Islam."  it's a pretty good writeup of the history of the issue.  It is critical [...]

Liar! Liar! The current missiological debate on contextualization rages on…

There is a lot of communication happening on the “contextualization” front. For some years, some missionaries have been using ministry forms which are highly indigenous in nature and rely on sources from within other religious traditions to make their case.  Others have been highly critical of this approach.  This dialogue has a language all its [...]

Starting a Movement

Matt Green shared this with me. It’s a must see for anybody who studies movements.

Echso-Text: 22 Christian Families Executed in Afghanistan

I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and [...]

Podcast Shownotes – Movements

World Christian Podcast – Click here to listen
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS and ACORNS
(Note: This material is largely based on the work of Gerlach and Hines, cited at the end of this article.)
Something that fascinates many people is the idea of movements and how they form, and how they are generated; in fact, I’ve decided to do [...]

Tags: Orgs and Movements

Laotian People Movement

The following text is from a newsletter I received last week from an indigenous Thai ministry. This ministry is reaching out across the border in Laos. The media and Hollywood actors are portraying Buddhism as a peaceful, loving religion. The persecution noted below is a direct result of Buddhist adherents.
It is important [...]

Tags: Orgs and Movements, Persecution

Creative Teams

Sometimes you need to accomplish a job and you can’t do it with the usual list of suspects. These are tasks that require artistry and sophistication, not just brute, managerial force. Such was the case a few years ago when I was tasked with managing a team that would create a video resource [...]