Monthly Archives: June 2019

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It is nice to be home from vacation and back on the blog (Actually, I’m still on the road, just finishing the biannual meeting of the Send Institute’s Missiologists’ Council. And since my flight has already experienced several delays, and O’Hare provides free wi-fi, you get this post tonight.). Story […]

Opportunity: Write Mission Fiction

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Today marks the death of one of the most influential missionary thinkers of the 20th century: Anglican priest, Roland Allen. Missiological giants such as Lesslie Newbigin and Donald McGavran drank deeply from Allen’s well. Allen served for a few years in China and lived through the Boxer Uprising. He later […]

Roland Allen: Misunderstood Prophet

 in History / International Missions / missiology / North American Missions / Roland Allen  tagged Missionary Methoeds / Roland Allen / Spontaneous Expansion of the Church by
As a kid, I loved watching Ripley’s Believe It or Not (with Jack Palance). If you are a Gen Xer or older, then you know what I’m talking about! You Millennials and Gen Zers will have to YouTube it. Palance would introduce every episode as being about “the strange, the […]

What Ripley’s Believe It or Not Taught Me about Kingdom ...

 in Agencies / Church Planting / contextualization / Evangelism / History / Innovation / International Missions / missiology / North American Missions / Theology  tagged 1 Peter 2:9 / Acts 10 / Acts 11 / Acts 8 / Carl Braaten / change / Holy Spirit / Innovation / Mission / Ripley Believe It or Not by