Lesslie Newbigin once stated, “there is no higher priority for the research work of missiologists than to ask the question of what would be involved in a genuinely missionary encounter between the gospel and this modern Western culture.” While Newbigin’s words and work led the Church to claim the “West […]
Agencies
One of the courses I teach at Beeson Divinity School is Contemporary Issues and Strategies in Missions. It is usually offered as a January class and began again today. After twenty years of training pastors and church planters, I have noticed that many struggle in the area of strategic planning. […]
5 Practices of Strategic Leaders
Roland Allen was born on this date in 1868. He turned the world of missions upside down. Allen (1868-1947) was an Anglican, priest, missionary, author, and provocateur. While his influence was felt in the latter twentieth and twenty-first centuries, his views were often disregarded during his lifetime. Books such as Missionary […]
Roland Allen’s Birthday
Last week, I drove past the first KFC. I grew up in the small Southeastern Kentucky town of Corbin. Here is where the Colonel started frying it decades ago. My mother’s house is about two miles from the restaurant. As we visited for the holiday, she mentioned the place had […]
Christmas, Japan, and KFC
I completed the draft of my fifteenth book (The Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking Contemporary Missions) yesterday. Stay tuned. It is now off to Baker Academic for the editing process. I am a strong believer in writing and publishing. I attribute this value to what was modeled before me as a graduate […]
Doing Missiological Writing
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecc 1:9). When I was a graduate and doctoral student, I was exposed to a great deal of Donald McGavran’s writings. One of the things […]