Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Corina Villacorta and Harold Segura as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding through the GlobalRead more…
Corina Villacorta and Harold Segura
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Corina Villacorta and Harold Segura as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding through the GlobalRead more…
Reflections on the Hermeneutics and Practice of the Prosperity Gospel
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Femi Adeleye as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Poverty, Prosperity and the Gospel.” Responses to this paper through the LausanneRead more…
GOWA (Gospel and Work for All) With the Diaspora to Create National Funds
The developing countries do not need any more gifts from the western countries. The developing countries do not need helping organizations that is not creating complete self support alternatives. The developing countries have to many developing organizations that is causingRead more…
Addressing Poverty with Participatory Learning
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Ravi Jayakaran as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding through the Global and Local Church.”Read more…
Ducking Missionary Conflict – in Africa and beyond
This article first appeared in the July 2009 issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ). Inter-personal conflicts frequently trouble missionary endeavours. Solutions advocated often emphasise the importance of missionary relationships. Without discrediting those ‘solutions’, I want to ask whether Western missionRead more…
Global Rich List, you may be richer than you think
Poke, a company based out of London, created an interesting web tool that allows people to enter their annual income to see where they line up among the world’s rich. The results can be quite shocking. For example, if youRead more…
Good news?
So, I assume if we’re in this conversation we’re mostly in agreement regarding the maladies of the Prosperity un-Gospel. Can we share experiences of antidotes, examples of Christian groups, churches, movements, that are countering the trend, living in ways thatRead more…
Overcoming The Technological Divide
A Response to Al Erisman’s ‘The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance’ The technological transformation that Koreans have gone through since the last century is unprecedented in terms of its speed, scale, and scope. My father, born in 1938,Read 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…