Posted in missio dei, reseña on August 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Christians and other theists believe that in some impenetrable way prayer moves the hand of God. (more…)
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 out with obsessive will the consuming flame, loving ten times more the wick than the placid darkness where a moth might fly all night long to its heart’s content. (more…)
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 the maître’d here. A young Syrian man with passable English that he wisely practices on an early customer, Riad clearly wants me to like Jordan, to like his restaurant, to enjoy the particular item he recommends to me from the menu, adding that ‘old Arab, they eat with their hand, but now this is not good.’ (more…)
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 into the present time.
By the time Paul pens this letter, he can assume that his readers are familiar with the Greek term ‘euanggelion’. Usually translated as ‘the announcement of good news’ or simply ‘good news’, the term resonates on multiple levels throughout Greco-Roman culture. Perhaps its most pertinent use as precursor to the apostle’s employment of the term is that which designates the arrival of an emperor. Paul is able to refer to ‘the good news’, suggesting that by late in the first century it had become commonplace among Christians to refer to the arrival of Jesus Christ and the proclamation of his achievements as the euanggelion par excellence. (more…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, reseña on July 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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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 articles tend towards the pragmatic and away from the theoretical, in contrast by way of example with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. (more…)
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei on July 2, 2007| Leave a Comment »
James Chien Zo digs below the surface of intercultural contact in a fascinating contribution to Missiology: An International Review that draws from his own Asian-American immigrant experience (XXXII/1, 2004). In fact, he hints at his agonies by way of the ‘r’ word:
The most unequally treated people in America are not any one particular ethnic or gender group, but the immigrants. Because of their inability to survive in the mainstream, the Chinese immigrants are often labeled as racists by the equality activists, and most painfully, also by their own children.
Canter Bridge 