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By Hwa Yung | Article
Ida Scudder was the granddaughter of the first medical missionary sent by the American church. John Scudder, her grandfather, went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1819, and later to…
By Rene Padilla | Article
The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation left a profound mark not only on the church of Jesus Christ but also on the history of the Western world and, as a sequel, on…
By Femi B. Adeleye | Article
During my last visit to Ethiopia I joined students at Addis Ababa University for a meeting of the Evangelical Students’ and Graduates’ Union of Ethiopia (EvaSUE). They are part of…
By Leighton Ford | Article
Reformation is a large concept, a work of God so broad, deep and historic that it is beyond my scope, and probably that of The Third Lausanne Congress on World…
By Libby Little | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ Editor’s note: Shortly after Libby Little wrote this response to Ajith Fernando’s article on suffering, she received news that her husband…
By Hwa Yung | Article
One of the big surprises of the 20th century was the dramatic growth of the churches in the non-western world. A bigger surprise was that, as Philip Jenkins asserts, those…
By Miroslav Volf | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Servicer’ ’Thus God wears the mask of the Devil, and the Devil wears the mask of God; God wants to be recognized…
By Elizabeth Sendek | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Service’ In his insightful article, Fernando laments a contemporary idea of vocational fulfilment in ministry that has removed the cross from its…
By Thomas Schirrmacher | Article
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ As a Westerner I wholeheartedly agree with Fernando’s conclusions. For centuries large parts of the Middle East were lost to church…
By Ajith Fernando | Article
I felt humbled as I returned from teaching pastors in the deep south of Sri Lanka. In these pastors’ experience, it often takes ten to fifteen years pioneering in unreached…
By Darren Sleep | Article
A Response to Scott Sabin’s ‘Whole Earth Evangelism’ While I don’t disagree with Scott Sabin’s thoughts, I am uncomfortable with “piling on more doom and gloom.” True, the average North…
By Samuele Furfari | Article
A Response to Scott Sabin’s ‘Whole Earth Evangelism’ Scott Sabin rightly mentioned the heartbreaking situation of Haiti. In video images of the recent tragic earthquake, we saw a striking contrast…
By Scott Sabin | Article
On a precarious slope, Etienne digs into the dusty soil with a small hoe, planting beans in hope of the rains. In recent years these rains have become unpredictable. Miles…
By Wha-Chul Son | Article
A Response to Al Erisman’s ‘The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance’ The technological transformation that Koreans have gone through since the last century is unprecedented in terms of…
By Juan D Rogers | Article
A Response to Al Erisman’s ‘The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance’ Technology is a label for all kinds of things humans create. Some are material, such as machines…
By Nigel M. de S. Cameron | Article
A Response to Al Erisman’s article ‘The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance’ Al Erisman is absolutely right to note the dramatic effects of emerging technologies and to use…
By Al Erisman | Article
Missionaries study the culture of the people they serve. Al Erisman says we need to look deliberately at the digital culture, in which we now live. Interview by Tim Stafford…
By Craig Greenfield | Article
A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ Samuel Escobar offers three challenges to the church in his essay on migration: the challenge to show compassion toward migrants, the…
