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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »

Multiple partners is not unfaithfulness

Did that title get your attention? Forgive my casual language: In my day job, I’m an AIDS researcher. Clearly, in the realm of disease transmission having more than one partner is not only being unfaithful, it is dangerous. But evenRead more…

A Church Response to Gender Violence

I have been doing some work on Gender-based Violence / Violence against Women / Domestic Violence and am hoping that I could meet up with a group of interested people while we are in Cape Town to talk about aRead more…

Milk Goats

Imagine if you will a man who cared for goats in order to sell their milk in the market. Everyone in the market loved his milk and even felt that it gave them a little extra boost of energy forRead more…

A Fresh Approach To Witness For The 21st Century: A Global Perspective

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Rebecca Manley Pippert and Bishop Benjamin A. Kwashi as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “A Fresh Approach to Witness forRead more…

The Partnership of Males and Females in the New Global Equilibrium

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Leslie Anne Neal Segraves and Chad Alan Neal Segraves as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Men and Women: A PowerfulRead more…

A Fresh Approach to Witness For The 21st century: A Global Perspective

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Rebecca Manley Pippert and Bishop Benjamin A. Kwashi as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “A Fresh Approach to Witness forRead more…

Secularity: Dogma Meets Diversity In Europe

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Robert Calvert as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Dogma and Diversity: Can Evangelical Truth Effectively Face Up to Secularity inRead more…

Secularity: Dogma Meets Diversity in Europe

Secularity: Dogma Meets Diversity in Europe Author: Robert Calvert Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Robert Calvert as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Dogma and Diversity:Read more…

Is synthetic biology the original ‘syn’?

Heralded as having the potential of starting a new industrial revolution and criticised as overstating the potential benefits arising from it, the news that Dr. Craig Venter and his team have successfully developed the first living cell to be controlledRead more…

Hope for the Homeless Pilgrims

Twelve years ago, my family embraced an Arab family from Sudan. This family consisted of a widower with four teenaged children and his elderly mother-in-law. They arrived in Canada as refugees after fleeing from war-torn Sudan via three  years asRead more…