Forty-five years ago this week (July 16-25, 1974), 2700 participants, from 151 countries, gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland for the International Congress on Global Evangelization. This gathering was the result of a great deal of planning with much leadership provided by Billy Graham and John Stott. The desire: bring global evangelical […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
I was recently asked to record two videos on innovation for the Lausanne Global Workplace Forum held in Manila, Philippines, June 25-29, 2019. Forty-five years ago, global evangelical leaders with hearts for disciple making birthed the Lausanne Movement. This movement, along with the Lausanne Covenant, has had tremendous influence on […]
Kingdom Innovation Videos
July 4, Independence Day, is a major holiday in my country. If you are not familiar with the significance of this day, check out the link in the previous sentence. Before I leave for the local fireworks display, I wanted to share this post–one written to my fellow American brothers […]
A Few July 4 Thoughts before the Fireworks
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
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
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 […]