If we are to live as “resident aliens” in the West, as I suggested at the end of my article last week, then we will have to understand that there are several significant elements to the real success of ourRead more…
Integrity and Partnership in Mission
The idea of “integrity” is something that is complete. It is whole, without missing parts, full, perfect, with appropriate weight and measure. When referring to a person, it’s about the pure, proven, without cracks. When we speak of mission,Read more…
Global Mission and Cultural Transformation – William Carey
It is not accurate to merely mention 18th/19th Century missionary William Carey as an inspiration for global mission. His legacy, and the breadth of his involvement and influence in Indian life, does not allow us to pass by him soRead more…
World Faiths – Diaspora Causes and Opportunities
Joy Tira discusses people on the move, a borderless world and migration. He presents the opportunities available to reach diaspora people in our cities, mission and the growth of churches among these people. Download Options PC users: Right click aRead more…
When does a Missiology Become an Effective Movement?
I guess I’ve been asking the question when does a Missiology become an effective Movement? How do you bring about a tipping point? Looking around the collection of people here at Cape Town I found myself short of answers butRead more…
Missiological discussion forum
A forum for discussing missiology from any Christian perspective. It is one way of continuing the Lausanne conversation, and sharing what one learned from the Lausanne Congress. There is a database of current and completed missiological research and many otherRead more…
Immigrants, Muslims and others, adapt their beliefs to the host culture.
Our son recently started his studies in a small university town in Wales. On our visits there, we have encountered a number of Polish young people. In fact, Polish is the third most popular language in that town – afterRead more…
1 in 10 Australians Now Live in Poverty
Today, October 19, 2010, an article (http://bit.ly/deOGHo) was published in Christian Today citing a report released on Monday from the Salvation Army (http://bit.ly/cgrnPQ), noting that 1 in 10 (2 million) Australians now live in poverty. Other findings include: 70% ofRead more…
The Role of Missionaries in the Muslim Countries: Problems and Challenges
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Andrea Zaki Stephanous as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on Islam. Responses to this paper through the Lausanne Global Conversation willRead more…
Crown Him With Many Crowns – From Edinburgh 1910 to Cape Town 2010
Jon Hirst poignantly starts his Lausanne Blog (http://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-blog/) with the comment “How fitting that on the first night of the Congress they would sing the song sung 100 years ago at the Edinburgh Missions Conference – “Crown Him with Many Crowns!”Read more…