One aspect of globalisation is what some scholars call cosmopolitanism. This refers to the supposed creation of a highly integrated, mobile, and transnational culture where people around the world interact with diverse peoples on common grounds, under the supposition thatRead more…
Clarifying Globalization
Clarifying Globalisation Urbanism is commonly understood as the philosophy of how a city culture affects the behavior on the greater population of the nation and the world. It is closely linked with globalization and the forces that are at workRead more…
Where the Stranger Is Not Strange
In this issue we discuss a compelling and urgent topic: Glocalized Evangelism. “Glocal” is a new term combining global and local. Simply put, it communicates that the nations and cities of the world are increasingly inhabited by peoples from manyRead more…
Glocalization from a Norwegian Perspective
For the Professionals? From the early nineteenth century, mission societies were the bearers of mission from Norway to the non-Christian nations. Norwegian mission in terms of missionaries and funds for mission became the world champion when compared to the sizeRead more…
Demands of the Kingdom of God & Ethnic Diversity
God is the one who established diversity. Galatians 3:28 reminds us that “…there is no Jew nor Greek, no male nor female, no slave nor free. We are all one in Christ Jesus.” According to James Breckenridge and Lillian Breckenridge,Read more…
Bridge Peoples: The Role of Ethnic Minorities
It doesn’t take more than a trip to the grocery store to recognize that we live in a time of profound cultural change. Even our smallest hometowns are no longer mono-cultural. Instead, they are mixtures of people from a varietyRead more…
The Church as Glocal
We are living in a global world—the young generation, especially. We have a global culture. Most of us know Facebook, Michael Jackson, iPhone, Avatar, Nike. Brands are global. Movies are global. Artists are global. But still, the place where weRead more…
Glocalization, Diaspora Missiology, and Friendship
In five months, Lausanne Cape Town 2010 (CT2010) will be a fresh opportunity to think about creative approaches for relational forms of evangelism. One new paradigm to consider is glocalized evangelism at the intersection between global people movements and localRead more…
A sketch on the mobilization of the Latin American
The Evangelical Latin American Church has grown quickly in the last 50 years. The nationalization of the leadership in the first half of the century and the emergence of national churches in the 30s, were decisive factors for the developmentRead more…
The Rich Find Reassuring
I am sharing a document about Old and New Testament Teaching Which the Rich Find Reassuring of Paul Davies (All Nations – UK). Paul and Wilma Davies were several years in Argentina and were de great help for missions movement Red Misiones Mundiales (COMIBAMRead more…