A response to Chawkat Moucarry’s ‘A Plea For Dialogue.’ Of late, dialogue between Muslims and Western Christian academicians has moved from defensive polemics to more constructive discourse that seeks to achieve mutual understanding. Every effort is made to setRead more…
Culture is Changing: Fundraising Needs to Change With It
Like many people in the nonprofit world, I started out as a fundraiser. I worked for a development director, however, who had very different ideas about how that job should be done. While her peers boasted about “bringing in aRead more…
A Dozen Ways You Can Summon and Release the Next Generation of Global Christians
As the father of four daughters, it’s been impressed upon me that different people think differently. What seems entirely sensible to me does not make similar sense to everyone,apparently! In some cases, it doesn’t make sense to anyone in ourRead more…
Media Engagement
Why does it media engagement matter? Taking the time to map engagement level to volume, share of voice and share of conversation is an excellent way to make a case for your engagement effort. Is your content receiving more sharesRead more…
Connection is key for next gen (donors)
As the guest editor of the December issue of Alliance magazine and author of the “Global ‘next gen’ trends” article, Jason Franklin has astutely introduced us to what next gen donors value and what they are doing differently. From focusing on root causesRead more…
Ideas for developing mission vision
Ideas, resources and websites to increase mission vision and therefore mission giving in churches and individuals
Premarital Counseling Necessary?
Do you recommend premarital counseling for engaged couples? If so, why? My fiancee and I have spent hours getting to know each other over the past year, so why should we bother with the time and expense of counseling? PremaritalRead more…
Protect Your Marriage from Divorce
I’m engaged to a beautiful and godly young lady. Spending the rest of my life with her is more than I could have hoped or dreamed for. Still, the possibility of divorce scares me. What can we do to avoidRead more…
Global Gospel, Global Era: Christian discipleship and mission in the age of Globalization
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Os Guinness and David Wells as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Globalization.” Responses to this paper through the Lausanne GlobalRead more…
Building A Common Society
A response to Chawkat Moucarry’s ‘A Plea For Dialogue.’ Of late, dialogue between Muslims and Western Christian academicians has moved from defensive polemics to more constructive discourse that seeks to achieve mutual understanding. Every effort is made to setRead more…