True stories of survival of abuse and injustice

"e;The Korean missions movement is perhaps the most significant story of the Church in the world over the past one hundred years.

This study presents the religious dynamics of the Wolaitta Kale Heywet Church in southern Ethiopia from 1937 to 1975.

With simple, heartbreaking detail, Das Maddimadugu recalls the joys and tragedies of his childhood in a destitute family of the untouchable caste, nearly sold into slavery, and "e;adopted"e; by a single Mennonite missionary woman.

A silent crisis has been taking place for some time now: an ongoing eclipse in mission, whereby our understanding of what it is has been obscured by the idols of our Christian passions and biblical perspectives.

The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity.

When Hindus and Sikhs become followers of Christ, what happens next?

Why have so many churches started community gardens over the past decade?

The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete.

The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century.

There is a great debate going on in the church today.

Pioneer missionary Timothy Richard served forty-five years in China and became a household name among educated Chinese.

Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa.

The church is in major decline in the Western world.

Where Is the Church?

Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora.

When It Comes to Disciple Making .

Christian mission has often been a project allied with colonial powers and conquests.

Mainline Christianity in the West is dying.

The first year for any missionary is filled with adventure and trials.

The First Steps of Your Discipleship Journey .

In 1938 the Reverend Henry H.

Colleges can do it.

In Who Needs a Missionary?

The mission of the church to the Jews is a unique one.

How did Christian missions happen in the early church from AD 100 to 750?

David Bosch (1929-1992) was one of the foremost mission theologians of the twentieth century, at once a prolific scholar, committed church leader, and active participant in the global conciliar and evangelical mission movements.

Colonial missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, arrived in India with the grandiose vision of converting the pagans because, like St.

Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life.

I can't tell you my name.

With the majority of the world's Christians now living in the non-Western world, Christian mission has become a global movement.

When Hindus and Sikhs become followers of Christ, what happens next?

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs.

Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass' magazine articles: "e;My Escape from Slavery,"e; and "e;Reconstruction,"e; as well as his address "e;The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831

"e;The Korean missions movement is perhaps the most significant story of the Church in the world over the past one hundred years.

I am not like Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, or William Carey.

The critique of Jacques Dupuis, SJ, by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the direction of Joseph Ratzinger was met by almost universal dismay by Christian theologians and participants in interfaith dialogue throughout the world.

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the seminal theologians of mission in the twentieth century, and perhaps the most important in the English-speaking world.

Among all the arguments for the existence of God there may be none more personal and intimate than C.

What is the relationship between the gospel and the church's responsibility toward the poor?

The Gospel of John and the Religious Quest argues that at its origin the Fourth Gospel was part of a dialogue with various religious traditions, and that to this day it is being used in active dialogue with those who live in traditions other than the Christian.

The population of the United States is changing.

A major aspect of the history of Christian missions is the way groups who have jumped the ecclesiastical ship have renewed and recalled their parent bodies back to biblical roots and a biblical vision.

William Carey, often dubbed "e;The Father of Modern Missions,"e; and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose.