I usually marvel at what God did after the whole creation and after He said it was good. He entrusted the whole creation to man and He said “Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it andRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Ethnicity And Identity
Tearfund’s Director for Latin America persuaded me to go to Bolivia and Brazil in 199? to accompany 3 seminaries in some strategic planning. As I arrived in Sucre with my minute grasp of Spanish I wasn’t at all convincedRead more…
Why Scripture In Mission?
I had the good fortune of studying missiology at Fuller Seminary. I wanted to know all that anthropology and sociology and church growth experts had to offer about how to help people know Christ. I took a course onRead more…
Lausanne And Gender
Welcome to this blog on the topic of empowering women and men to use their gifts together in advancing the Gospel. I thought the best way to begin would be to provide a history of Lausanne and gender as recordedRead more…
The Sunday School Experiment
Evangelism And An Entrepreneur. When setting out, in the mid-1990s, to investigate the significant decline of children’s attendances at Sunday Schools during the post-WWII period in Australia, it became necessary to also confront the profound cultural shifts which had takenRead more…
Calling Gargoyles to Life
What would you do if your church mounted a large, ugly face of a horrific animal or human outside of the sanctuary? Run? Hide? That is precisely what people used to do in medieval Europe. These distorted and grotesque statuesRead more…
Poverty And Wealth
As a development practioner I have always been focused on the issue of Poverty and how to fight it. As a Christian , my focus is on the marginalized, the overlooked and downtrodden- and this too has called for aRead more…
Poverty And Wealth
As a development practioner I have always been focused on the issue of Poverty and how to fight it. As a Christian , my focus is on the marginalized, the overlooked and downtrodden- and this too has called for aRead more…
The Theology of Prosperity
The Lausanne Global Conversation (LGC) is an opportunity for Christians around the globe to wrestle with important issues related to world evangelization, in connection with Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. One of these issues isRead more…
The Theology of Prosperity
The Lausanne Global Conversation (LGC) is an opportunity for Christians around the globe to wrestle with important issues related to world evangelization, in connection with Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. One of these issues isRead more…