Christian literature still plays important role in mission work. I learned through one of ministries in Asia. This ministry team goes to remote islands for outreach. They hold meetings and show Gospel films. They feed children with hot meals. NewRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Let the little children come to me…
In our modern world children and youth often do not feature too much in society. So: What does it mean to us today in Africa, when Jesus says “Let the little children come to me?” What is your response? InRead more…
A Partnership of Two is Inherently Unstable
These posts are meant to spark conversation and community reflection here on the Cape Town 2010 Global Conversation page. I welcome readers’ responses – and so allow me to come out straight away to my point. I believe that partnershipsRead more…
RE-Resource Stewardship
Your experience with the South African Student is similar to that of of many mobilizers. There are also problems from the other side of your story where churches and christians have contributed funds that for several reasons are yet to and may neverRead more…
Learning to get along with my two global families
(Originally published in the Urbana 2009 daily newspaper) Anyone who is married will tell you how challenging it can be to get along with the two different extended families of the bride and the groom. While the groom ponders theRead more…
Fellow of Redcliffe College, Gloucester
My big area of interest is Postcolonialism and mission, and I would be interested to know – with a view to further discussion – whether there were others working in this field. I have recently published a book titled BeyondRead more…
¿Los pobres para el templo o el templo para…?
¿Los pobres para el templo o el templo para los pobres? , Marcos 12:38-44 y Marcos 13:1-2 Introducción Este relato llamado la “Ofrenda de la viuda” (Mc 12:41-43) es conocido y muchas veces se levanta como ejemplo cuando se predicaRead more…
Partnerships: Scarcity-minded or Abundance-minded?
I am quite drawn to this “Scarcity vs. Abundance Management” chart, which I’ve replicated from a recent Wired Magazine article, on how people environments work differently when they perceive themselves to be working in Scarcity as opposed to Abundance. Read more…
Iberoamerican Church and the Missions Movement
A time for gratitude: A church that experiences the work of the Holy Spirit “And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.” (Acts 11:21). To begin with, we wantRead more…
Truth and Secularity
Just a brief response to Stuart’s article on truth and secularity. You suggest that the movement toward secularization that has been underway for about 150 years continues unabated and is taken up by postmodern descendants. I am not sure thatRead more…