Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Lars Dahle as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Media Messages Matter: On Global Technologies, Glocal* Trends and Gospel Truth”. Responses toRead more…
Hanging Out in the Electronic Agora
An article that I read recently gave six reasons why pastors should blog.[1] There is value in pastors keeping weblogs because blogging provides them opportunities i) to write, ii) to teach, iii) to recommend, iv) to interact, v) to developRead more…
Kingdom Stewardship: Equipping Disciples, Mobilizing Resources and Utilizing Technology to Advance God’s Mission in the World
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Ram Gidoomal in collaboration with the Resource Mobilization Working Group as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Mobilizing Resources for WorldRead more…
Kingdom Stewardship
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Ram Gidoomal in collaboration with the Resource Mobilization Working Group as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Mobilizing Resources for WorldRead more…
Glocal Evangelism: Using Films in Toronto
The word “glocal” was originally coined to express a new interweaving of “local” and “global” in business and communication advertisements. In evangelism and missions, I propose that Christ’s followers must be engaged in local and global arenas simultaneously.1 This hasRead more…
The Challenge of Keeping Up with Technology for Mi
For the past fourteen years, I’ve had the privilege of being involved in the exciting area of “digital ministry.” For a number of years, in my position with Gospel Communications, I worked alongside hundreds of ministries in many parts ofRead more…
The 21st Century Roman Road
Gone are the days when mission workers could assume that our technology is more developed than that of the population we serve. Often, we are stronger on missiology than technology. Unlike those to whom we reach out, we may notRead more…
Technology and Gospel Sharing
The German theologian Helmut Thielicke once commented, “The Gospel must be constantly forwarded to a new address because its recipient is repeatedly changing his place of residence.”1 This is a very challenging yet true observation about the nature of missionRead more…
Media and Technology: Resources For Reflections
“Can we regain the full integrity of faith in Christ while fully and properly engaged in the advanced modern world?” This essential question is raised by Os Guinness in the new edition of his classic treatment Gravedigger File (now retitledRead 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…