I have been a member of the Evangelical Missiological Society for many years. This Friday-Saturday (Oct 9-10), our annual meeting will be held on-line. Like the rest of the world, this Zoom reality will be a first for us too. Regardless, I am looking forward to the time. This year’s […]
Evangelical Missiological Society
One of the most influential U. S. missiologists was David Hesselgrave. After serving in Japan for several years, he was a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Some of his writings include Planting Churches Cross-Culturally, Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally, and Paradigms in Conflict. Hesselgrave passed away in 2018. Prior to his […]
Lianna Davis on Writing with David Hesselgrave
When Denny Spitters and Matthew Ellison published When Everything is Missions, they drew attention to the Church’s present state in which she (particularly in North America) finds herself in relation to her global task. If you do not have a copy of their book, go HERE and get it now. […]
New Book: Conversations on When Everything is Missions
I often keep my Instagram posts and blog posts separated. What shows up there usually does not show up here (a good reason to follow me on IG). 😁 However, every now and then something is worthy of redundancy. Yesterday, I posted a couple of photos from Stephen Neill’s 1959 […]
If Everything is Mission
Art has the ability to move us toward truth (or away from truth). It has the ability to bring comfort in chaos and hope when all seems hopeless. It brings encouragement to the downcast and expands vision when we are nearsighted. Artists bring ideas and emotions to life. We are […]
Leveraging the Arts for the Mission of God
“Many exegetical studies on mission fail to indicate which notion of mission is used or presupposed. Some authors operate with a vague concept of mission, sometimes linked with the term ‘mission,’ used in official declarations (e.g., that of the World Council of Churches), that describes comprehensively all aims, efforts and […]