Who says “No” to “Mission Trips”?

Here is a staggering statistic that I came across recently. Robert Wuthnow, the eminent sociologist of religion at Princeton University has estimated that up to 1.6 million American Christians take part in overseas “mission trips” each year, with churches spendingRead more…

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 1

Reading Krish Kandiah  thoughtful article relating to effective preaching  under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective  preaching  needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds  as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 1

Reading Krish Kandiah  thoughtful article relating to effective preaching  under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective  preaching  needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds  as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…

New Media, Social Networking and ministry

Each year I have the privilege of teaching some classes on new media and ministry at Media Village’s School of Video Production. Since most of the persons on the course are not theologically trained we spend the first day discussingRead more…

The Prophetic Migrant

A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ Samuel Escobar offers three challenges to the church in his essay on migration: the challenge to show compassion toward migrants, the need to take a prophetic stance against unjust treatment ofRead more…

Migration & Ethnic Conflict

  In 50 years as missionaries, my wife and I have become familiar with immigration laws and offices in the countries where we served: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the United States and now Spain. As recently as 2007, in Valencia, weRead more…

Reimagining Biblical Preaching

Preaching for biblical literacy It is the best-selling book of all time, with billions sold worldwide, yet it is increasingly becoming the least read book on our shelves. Within the evangelical church today, there is a such a crisis inRead more…

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Gospel and Cultures

Total Recall: Staying Faithful by Being Relevant By Krish Kandiah I had my eye on Arnold Schwarzenegger as I travelled by bus from Singapore to Thailand in the summer of 1994. At that time, instead of using standardised, mass-produced filmRead more…

The New Atheism and the Christian Mind

“God is a delusion – a ‘psychotic delinquent; invented by mad, deluded people.”  [i]  So believes Dr. Richard Dawkins.  On the BBC radio, speaking of God he said, “This infantile explanation belongs to an earlier, superstitious era in the historyRead more…

Getting Alongside

Is mission something done by people from the West using Western resources, or is it someone that anyone can do who is a Christian whether or not they have contact with Western donors? I think this is an important question.Read more…