I cannot recall three hours of unalloyed joy that compare with the experience of four thousand delegates to Cape Town 2010 in its closing worship celebration. For this, surely, we were made. For this were eyes created, for taking in the images of God’s Lamb that slid across the mammoth screen as the orchestra took [...]
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with many crowns: Cape Town 2010 and the people ecstatic
Posted in missio dei on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lausanne’s new global equilibrium: money corrupts
Posted in missio dei on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our logic is simple and reductionistic. It goes like this: money corrupts. Therefore let us not transfer money and, so, not foment corruption. Things become, upon close inspection, even more banal. We begin by taking the modern nation-state as a given, as an indisputable fact on the ground. Since this is our self-evident starting point, [...]
Cape Town’s Pentecost
Posted in missio dei on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is easy to dismiss the Big Meeting in a day when connectivity is cheap, frequent, and easy. It may well be that the Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town 2010 ambition will have proven to be a mere spasm of spiritual and communal ecstasy, unrelated to the ongoing task and shared life of what can now [...]
PhDs in the pulpit: escaping the claustrophobia of academy-only expectations
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, tagged theological education on December 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We need thoughtful people in the pulpit. Around the dinner table, a friend and his wife decry the insipid aridity of much that passes for Christian proclamation. These are not cultured despisers, these hosts of mine. They are decades-old friends who have been around the block and around the world, have celebrated life and been [...]
reviewing ChinaSource: perspectives and analysis for those who serve China
Posted in missio dei, reseña, tagged China, missio dei on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When peering through the window of a train car at a fascinating, fast-changing, complex landscape, you can’t make the train slow down for a bit of gawking. The best you can ask for is a window with minimal smudges. That’s what you get when contemplating the velocity of change in China today through the lens [...]
Love in the time of missiologists: why you can’t not hope (Paul and Eva Toms Lectureship in Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, October 9, 2008)
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged missio dei on October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The incomparable Colombian novelist Gabriel García-Márquez is a master of the evocative book title. From Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) to El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (The Coronel Has No One Who Writes to Him) to Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) to El amor [...]
a South African mine: South African Baptist Journal of Theology
Posted in missio dei, reseña on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
South African institutions exert an inordinate influence over the African continent, often for good and occasionally for ill. If this is true in the economic and political arenas, it is doubly the case when one considers Christian theology and the preparation of an emerging generation of African Christian leaders. When it comes to influence, the [...]
schooling Daniel
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged biblical reflection, Daniel, reseña on November 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some human endeavors run stubbornly against statistical probability. Fishing, for example, or standing in to the batter’s box. Or training a Labrador puppy. Reflecting this Autumn morning on the education of the biblical Daniel, I wince more strongly than ever at the short-horizoned pragmatism that pervades our view of preparation for Christian leadership today. A [...]
a world far different from the one we thought we knew: Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom. The Coming of Global Christianity
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, reseña, tagged global church, Philip Jenkins, reseña on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In a memorable passage from the movie Apollo Thirteen, a military man in the tense Houston control room shares with a political figure his premonition that the tragedy unfolding before them will be *the* catastrophic moment for the space program. Mission control flight chief Gene Kranz overhears their conversation and addresses it: ‘With all due [...]
That’ll preach: Arthur T. Jones, Four words for tough times. Have faith in God (Sermons and study guides)
Posted in missio dei, reseña, tagged Arthur T. Jones, preaching, reseña on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Good African-American preaching is a deeply satisfying art form. Just don’t go telling Rev. Dr. Art Jones that. For him it’s a deadly serious enterprise.
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