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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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

Missing Generation – reaching 20s- 30s

20-30 Vision   Sarah is a 29 year old marketing analyst living in East London. She attends a local church where she is involved in the youth work and a midweek home group. She is bright, attractive, outgoing and single.Read more…

Rethinking Apologetics with Newbigin

New beginnings in apologetics and evangelism – a personal journey with Lesslie NewbiginDr Krish Kandiah It felt like a hurricane had swept through the mental furniture of my Christian faith and displaced everything I was used to. And yet theRead more…

Organ Donation

I would be interested in having a conversation with people from around the world on the organ donation policies in their countries.  The U.S. is always trying to think of ways that will “solve” the organ shortage.  Many proposed solutionsRead more…

On-the-Grounders Missing Media-Generated Inquirers

The number of people online and exploring faith issues is staggering. So also those responding to broadcast/radio/satellite and replying via mobile phone! I won’t attempt to cite statistics here, but what a friend of mine said is most assuredly true:Read more…

The Gospel is Bigger than you Think

It was a long haul flight and he had slept, read the magazine, eaten his supper and watched the movie. At 2:00am he picked up his Bible for some in-flight edification. Suddenly the aircraft experienced complete engine failure and theRead more…

Free E-book – Refreshing Preaching

I would love to see a global conversation about preaching taking place. Here in the UK we are seeing real interest in grappling with the growing biblical illiteracy in the church. We are running an initiative to see the wholeRead more…

The New Atheism and the Christian Mind

“God is a delusion – a ‘psychotic delinquent; invented by mad, deluded people.”  [i]  So believes Dr. Richard Dawkins.  On the BBC radio, speaking of God he said, “This infantile explanation belongs to an earlier, superstitious era in the historyRead more…

Radio – Oral Communicators 4 – Trade Language

This is the fourth radio episode in the Down To Earth series on Oral Communicators. Literate communication styles often lead to oral learners getting an incomplete understanding of God’s Word. Using the heart language of the people, rather than aRead more…

Radio Series – Oral Communicators 4 – Promo

This is the 30-second promo for the fourth episode produced on Oral Communicators. I have no plans to produce more of these but I will be doing four episodes on another topic. See Down To Earth for other series onRead more…

Radio – Oral Communicators 3 – Rampent Illiteracy

This is the third episode in the Down To Earth radio series on Oral Communicators. Literacy is less common that we assume. The real percentage of literates in even the most wealthy, developed countries is far lower than governments claim.Read more…