What Is God’s Global Urban Mission?

Editors’ Note: This is an advance paper for Cape Town 2010, written as an early draft of 
the content to be discussed at the evening plenary session on “Megacities,” and the afternoon multiplex session on “Embracing God’s Global Urban Mission.”Read more…

Hollywood & the Holy Word – Film & Biblical Echoes

An article exploring opportunities for a creative dialogue between film, general revelation and biblical evangelism.   There’s a tunnel on an eco-trail that follows the path of an old railway line behind the town where I live. Its dark andRead more…

DID THE CHURCH PASS ON THE BATON IN EUROPE?

People reflect about their context of living and working from their local point of view where family, jobs, education, ministry and social life make the components of life. They take a natural interest into what is happening upstream in societyRead more…

God in a box

As I follow the global conversation, I have been noticing one important thing that seems to be a common issue in all the topics being discussed.  Sometimes this issue is recognized without addressing it, while at other times opinions areRead more…

Paradigms of Ethnicity

Five Paradigms of Ethnicity There are hints of ethical ideas in the words ’positive’ and ’negative’ in these titles and I have drawn from these two basic concepts in developing the following five paradigms. Please offer comments on any orRead more…

Youth Culture is now a separate unreached culture

I cannot believe that Lausanne dioes not have youth as one of the unreached groups. I believe that from my research and hands on experience that youth culture around the world (13 to 30 years old) is now a separateRead more…

The occidental missions (English & Spanish)

The occidental missions and their roll in the third millennium  “Join with others in following my example,  brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you” Php. 3:17  The roll the occidental missions willRead more…

The occidental missions (English & Spanish)

The occidental missions and their roll in the third millennium  “Join with others in following my example,  brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you” Php. 3:17  The roll the occidental missions willRead 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…