Mission Nation Publishing Company, an online company begun in January 2016, published its first title, The Resilient Missionary, the story of Yohannes Mengsteab, who was raised in Eritrea, evangelized by Swedish missionaries in Sudan, and sent to the United States to plant churches. He started six African immigrant churches in the Washington DC–Baltimore, MD area […]
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Editors of the online Dictionary of African Christian Biography are publishing a selection of stories as the Journal of African Christian Biography, which will “make African Christian biographies more readily accessible and immediately useful in African congregations and classrooms,” said Jonathan J. Bonk, the JACB editor. Published in monthly installments with an annual cumulative volume
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Appointed. Biblical scholar and author M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas) as Blanchard Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, Wheaton, IL, as of July 1, 2016. He was a distinguished professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary, Denver, CO, and has been an adjunct professor at El Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala
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Roberta R. King An ever-increasing need to find creative approaches and mission models to engagewith Muslim neighbors exists. Studies have shown that musical performance canevoke transformative moments that enhance communication and restore brokenrelationships. In this article, I explore the intersection of music, peacebuilding, andinterfaith dialogue in light of Muslim-Christian relations. I ask how music contributesto
Charity Reeb, Charles M. Hermans, and Christina S. Simmers This qualitative study examines paradigms of the definition of mission as held by high-levelAssembly of God pastors and missionary leaders. The study reveals that thetwo groups differ in their definition of mission. In the church, pastors generally feelthat “mission” encompasses outreach to all people groups; missionaries,
Amber R. Thomas This paper traces the major discussions of “world” or “non-Christian” religions in the speeches, promotion, and scholarly texts related to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s triennial “Urbana” Student Missionary Convention and argues that Urbana sources enlarge the understanding of postwar American evangelicals’ concerns about non-Christian religions by showing that evangelicals assessed the religions’ implications
Stefan Paas and Alrik Vos Church planting is often seen as the best way to grow the church numerically.However, there is surprisingly little research examining this claim in any detail, andthe research that exists turns out to be not very well-founded or unclear in termsof sources, definitions, and so forth. Recently, research has been conducted
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Mary Shepard Wong Luella Miner, missionary to China from 1887 to 1935, was the founder and president of the first college for women in China. Her many writings, including letters, journals, articles, and books, are a window into China’s changing political scene in the early twentieth century and into the life of an educational missionary
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Robin Boyd Born in Belfast, Robin Boyd studied there and in Dublin, Edinburgh, and Basel. Ordainedin the Irish Presbyterian Church, he served the Student Christian Movement and in1954 went to India (Gujarat), becoming a presbyter of the nascent (1970) Church ofNorth India. In 1974 he moved to Melbourne, Australia, and ministered in a parishof the
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Diane B. ObenchainIntroducing World Religions: A Christian Engagement Luis N. Rivera-PagánSin and Confession in Colonial Peru: Spanish-Quechua Penitential Texts, 1560–1650 Robert HurteauThe Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West Tite TiénouThe Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora: Imagining the Religious “Other.” Book Notes, July 2016
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