Because this article (5,600 words, in word) is still looking for a publisher, I cannot paste it here. Please email me at [email protected] for a copy. Here is the introduction only: The prosperity Gospel is widely considered to beRead more…
About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
Becoming An Outward-Looking Urban Church: A Case Study of Christ Church Kenilworth in Cape Town
The Parish of St John the Evangelist (St John’s, for short) in Cape Town has an interesting history and is an evangelical anomaly in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA). Christ Church in Kenilworth is one of the sixRead more…
Getting in the Way of the Good News: A Pig in the Manger
My wife and I bought a transparent nativity scene that we stuck up on a window to cover a crack. (We took it down the other day because the window has been repaired by our church…) The stable, the figuresRead more…
Does reading Ephesians 5 endanger people’s lives in HIV epidemics?
Is Ephesians 5:1-11 fuel for silence, denial, deceipt, judgment, sectarianism, stigma, judgmentalism and condemnation? I believe that some of the imperatives of Ephesians 5 have been incorrectly and dangerously applied in HIV epidemics. However, thanks to the Lausanne movement’s decisionRead more…
A lyrical reading of Ephesians 5:1-20
A lyrical reading of Ephesians 5:1-20 In the following reading of Ephesians 5:1-20, I will use verse 19 as my guideline. It urges readers to speak to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. I will consider someRead more…
A lyrical reading of Ephesians 5:1-20
A lyrical reading of Ephesians 5:1-20 In the following reading of Ephesians 5:1-20, I will use verse 19 as my guideline. It urges readers to speak to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. I will consider someRead more…
What do you do with wolves in the ministry?
One of my most popular (and most commented on) posts at my main website was a long post I wrote about wolves in ministry. I’m curious to hear what you think about it. Click here to read it. I lookRead more…
Ephesians and Apartheid
Was the letter to the Ephesians written to Jewish or Gentile Christians? Previously, I believed that Ephesians was written to a church made up of both Jews and Gentiles, and that one of the things that Paul was seeking toRead more…
Diaspora Ministry Works: Sharks turned Fishermen
FROM LOAN SHARKS TO FISHERS OF MEN Noel Pantoja, Philippines I grew up in the Philippines seeing men in motorcycles wearing turban and long beard. We call them “Bumbay” when we were growing up. Sometimes adults would scare us thatRead more…
Craig and Moreland on The Church Condition and It’s Relevance on Indonesian Churches
In their (latest?) book, “Philosophical Foundation of a Christian Worldview” Craig and Moreland is proposing a view about the church’s condition as this: “…Despite their Christian commitment, they remain largely empty selves. What is an empty self? An empty selfRead more…