Christian faith has always been centrifugal, rarely containable, and viscerally cross-cultural. The mission of the Christian Church is therefore expansive, intentionally persuasive, and usually outward-looking.
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a trade journal for a hidden growth industry: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, reseña, tagged Christianity, mission, periodicals, reseña on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Anglican in Wheaton, Illinois
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged Anglicanism, Christianity, Church of England on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those familiar with the internecine warfare that has burst with a force uncontainable by Episcopalian comity since sexual politics have become front and center in the American version of the worldwide Anglican Community, the subtle distinction between those of the tradition who now refer to themselves as ‘Anglican’ and those who retain their identity [...]
You’re really gonna’ like this: Grove Biblical Series
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Ridley College is an evangelically-inclined Anglican college that operates under the umbrella of the UK’s University of Cambridge. The College is also the sponsor of a vigorous menu of thoughtful booklets [...]
The ugly beast behind well-spoken pragmatism
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged mission on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After sixteen great years as a missionary in Latin America, I find myself thriving back in my native land. ‘I bet the readjustment has been hard’, caring friends say. ‘No, not really’, I answer to myself and sometimes to the inquirer. The change has been remarkably smooth.
clarity over ecstasy, community over me: 1 Corinthians 14
Posted in missio dei, textures on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Paul’s gospel undercuts the ecstatic individualism of the Corinthian Christians in two ways.
centrifugal force: Patrick Johnstone, Operation World. When We Pray God Works
Posted in missio dei, reseña on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Christians and other theists believe that in some impenetrable way prayer moves the hand of God.
rrhythmia: the habit of letting chaos be
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, rrythmia on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A perfect chaos absorbs the street of Cairo, the most splendid disregard for safe conduct that the mind can imagine. It is as though millennia of human experience in self-preservation have been sucked out of the atmosphere, leaving men and women to fling themselves moth-like into the lamp, banging time and time against glass, seeking [...]
a tale of two Riads
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei on August 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The sun has set on Amman this Friday afternoon. The air in the outdoor café where my turkish coffee and I wrestle with the crossed time zones that simply won’t go away has turned cool. The Muslim call to prayer from a nearby mosque is just audible over the pleasant hum of conversation. Riad is [...]
Romans 1: power
Posted in missio dei, textures on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome is a constitutional document of Christian faith. The product of formidable passion and intellect, this theological-pastoral treatise has become the locus of a handful of doctrinal fine points that shape that faith and provide grist for the theological mill that grinds on to the present time. [...]
pragmatic, uneven, essential: Evangelical Missions Quarterly
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. EMQ is a quarterly publication out of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center that is perhaps best described as a periodical written by and for missionaries and practitioners of Christian mission. Its [...]
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