Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Jane Overstreet, on behalf of the Lausanne Leadership Development Working Group, as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “How To BuildRead more…
Technologies Are Not Just Tools
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 of various sorts. Others are procedural, such as organizational approaches.Read more…
Get Ready For Sci-Fi Reality
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 Information Technology (IT) as his example. It is the mostRead more…
The Face-To-Face Gospel And The Death Of Distance
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 [Introduction] Technology is swiftly and unpredictably changing our lives andRead more…
“Oral,” “Literate,” or “Appropriate”
Sometimes it is easy to try to make one size fit all, but people are all different and what works for one may not work for another. Still we can categorize some to help us strategize better. But what doRead more…
Tweeting the Good News on Easter
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” …and if you are unable to hop on a jumbo jet airliner and travelRead more…
When my son danced in Africa
When my son Aidan was twelve years old, he had a dream. He wanted to help provide water for a village on the other side of the world. Through a series of amazing events, he helped raise money for aRead more…
Churches making their message app-licable
For tech-savvy Christians or for just about any of the faithful under 35 years old, it’s a no-brainer: Spreading the Gospel means using the tools available now … and for a growing number of churches, that means having their ownRead more…
UK Lausanne Meeting – Gospel, Church and World
I spent last Friday in London at a meeting of many of those going to Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization held in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010. In the afternoon we were privilegedRead more…
The Legacy of Edinburgh 2010 to Cape Town 2010
The Edinburgh 2010 Missionary Conference is now underway. I had the opportunity to drop into the conference for a little while yesterday morning. Its actually quite an impressive sight to see so many different nationalities taking part. In comparion withRead more…