In August, I wrote a post about the rise of poverty in U. S. suburbs. We now live during a time with more people living in poverty in the suburban contexts than the urban contexts. The suburbs were not designed for this standard of living. In fact, they were designed […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
I am sometimes asked about books on migration and missions. While I reference many excellent works in Strangers Next Door, here are a few that quickly come to mind and in no particular order. I am certain there are others that deserve to be on this list. What I have […]
Books on Migration and Missions
Paul Dzubinski is my guest on this episode. Paul is the Director of Innovation for Frontier Ventures where he provides oversight for Launch Lab. In our conversation, we talk about the place of Spirit-led innovation in missions today and answer question such as: Why should Kingdom citizens have conversations on […]
Paul Dzubinski on Innovation in Missions
Change often comes in pairs. If we keep doing the same things over-and-over again, desiring different results but always ending up where we started, change is necessary. And after we make that change, we cannot use the same measuring stick. A systemic methodological shift requires a new metric system. The […]
Change and Metrics of Madness
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created after World War II. The plan was to create this office in 1950, give it a small budget (US $300,000), resettle Europeans displaced due to the war, and dissolve the office after three years. Reports from this week note that […]
European Crisis: Peoples on the Move
The best missiologists are outstanding theologians and the best theologians are outstanding missiologists. One thing I fear for readers of this blog–including myself–is that we will attempt to be great missiologists and think we can leave that theological stuff up to the theologians. May it never be! We need to […]