In this post, I want to draw your attention to the recently published book Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird. Stetzer is the president of LifeWay Research and Bird directs the research division at Leadership Network and teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary. Both of these men […]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
For those of you who know me, know I am a bluegrass fan. Now, I do not know if such is the case because I am a child of Appalachia, or because I consumed too much of The Beverly Hillbillies at one time in my life. But truth be told: Foggy Mountain […]
Bluegrass and Missions: An Untapped Platform of Pickin’ Potential
Since I just completed a series on diaspora missiology, I thought it would be appropriate to inform you of a new book that you need in your library. Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee have written ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (NY: Metro New York Baptist Association; […]
ethNYcity by Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee
I am doing something different in this post today. Rather than rewrite something I have already written, I want to direct you to an article I published with Lausanne World Pulse in March 2009. The article is titled: “Immigration and North America: Who in the World Is My Neighbor Anyway?” I’ll […]
Diaspora Missiology Part 6-Immigration and North America
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the leading source for information on the constantly changing world’s refugee population (including Internally Displaced Persons, Stateless Peoples, and Asylum-Seekers). According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, as of 2009, the number of refugees of concern to the UNHCR listed at 10.5 […]
Diaspora Missiology Part 5-Refugees
In this fourth post in the series, I want to spend a moment addressing the great migration of students across the globe. If you happened to miss the three previous posts, you can find them linked below: Diaspora Missiology Part 3 – Interview with Sadiri Joy Tira Diaspora Missiology Part […]