Check out the interest that the UK media has shown to the live streaming of Communion to an ipod, iphone, or ipad. see my blog below . So Can you enter into authentic Communion through the internet?
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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Media and Technology: Resources For Reflections
“Can we regain the full integrity of faith in Christ while fully and properly engaged in the advanced modern world?” This essential question is raised by Os Guinness in the new edition of his classic treatment Gravedigger File (now retitledRead more…
The Children’s Church
It was a typical Sunday morning. I was greeting members of our church family as they were leaving the worship service. On any given Sunday, as I spoke with departing worshippers, it was not unusual for someone to expressRead more…
Contextualization Series: Why Contextualize? (1/3)
[FULL ARTICLE] This week, I explore the theological foundations for contextualization. The question of why we should pursue contextualization is typically answered in a very narrow way that emphasizes what are certainly important socio-cultural and anthropological issues. For me, IRead more…
Equipping Evangelists with Orality Media Resources
The Stories of the Potter radio program in Cambodia that combines story and songs to address the folk Buddhist worldview is now actively used to help evangelists who visit villages to share the gospel. Distributing the audio content in solarRead more…
So, what have you learned?
What do we learn in cross-cultural relationships? How does our understanding of God’s kingdom expand by spending time with people who see the world differently than we do? I was part of a church-to-church conversation where this question came up.Read more…
Global Rich List, you may be richer than you think
Poke, a company based out of London, created an interesting web tool that allows people to enter their annual income to see where they line up among the world’s rich. The results can be quite shocking. For example, if youRead more…
What’s Prayer Got to Do with It?
A friend just emailed me, “I ran across a video yesterday where someone asked John Piper, “Why do we need more people praying? Does more mean God is more likely to answer?” His response was that when more people pray,Read more…
The Market as God
Some thoughts on the prevalent idolatry of our age, sparked off by an article by Harvey Cox.
Some stories about religious pluralism
Most of us live in a religiously pluralistic society. Though many deplore “religious pluralism” as something evil, it is an inescapable fact of our existence, and any attempt to undo it would be hugely unjust and would cause immense humanRead more…