A New On-Line Journal

I want to introduce you to a new on-line journal:  Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis.  The link is   http://missiodeijournal.com  You can download the journal to read or save in pdf format.  The issues are themed.  The theme of the first issue was “Rediscovering Missio Dei” and the second issue’s theme was [...]

Mission Trainer’s Forum at the NMC

We have hosted a gathering for missions professors, missiologists, and missions trainers now for about a dozen years, picking up the meeting after it had been idle for several years.  The one day event takes place at the annual National Missionary Convention.  Attendance ranges from 20 to 40 each year.  It is an occasion where [...]

“Food Fights”

Ash Barker, worker among the urban poor in Bangkok, and I were recently at Cincinnati Christian University.  Ash happened to see an announcement that Walter Brueggeman would be speaking the next morning in a local church.  Since Ash had secured a blurb for his book, Make Poverty Personal, from Dr. Brueggeman, we decided to attend [...]

Oregon Christian Convention

Last week I had the opportunity of bring four evening messages at the Oregon Christian Convention.  This was the 158th year of the convention.  I’ve been to the convention many times in my life; it is part of who I am.  It was an honor to be asked to speak.

My title was Unfinished Agenda: [...]

May I Rant a Bit?

For years people have sat in front of computers and made lists of “unreached people groups.”  This has been a major mission paradigm, particularly among Evangelicals, since the Lausanne Conference in 1974.  As can be expected, of the compiling of lists there is no end.  The latest iteration makes the claim that a group of [...]

The Magnificat

What do you think of when you read or hear read the words of Mary’s song, the Magnificat, Luke 1:46-56?  Three answers come to mind.  First, some think of the great classical music based on this passage.  Pachibel and Bach set these words to music, for which we should all be grateful.

Second, this passage [...]

Sheep and Goats

I never understood that Bible passage that talks about the Son of Man separating the sheep from the goats (Mt. 25:31-33).  I wasn’t raised on a farm and whenever I was with farm animals, it was always cows and horses.  In America, sheep are do distinct from goats, that it just didn’t make sense that they would [...]