Cultivating Creativity for Kingdom FlourishingCreating Local Arts Together is a manual that offers a transformative approach to integrating local arts with kingdom work.
Imagine traditional congregations in the United States and Canada sending missionaries across the street from their church buildings to express the kingdom of God within a postmodern culture and among disenfranchised Christians.
Missiologists and theologians do not often talk to each other, which has resulted in increased ignorance of each others questions and concerns about how to do theology in ways that effectively serve the Churchs mission.
The emergence of a master artist alongside his first major collection, created during a golden age of art in the nations capitalRenowned for his innovative work with silkscreen printing, Lou Stovalls works are part of numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Phillips Collection.
Hay un hilo secreto que conecta las pinturas rupestres de la cueva de Altamira, los bestiarios medievales, las campañas de reclutamiento de soldados durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, los posters psicodélicos de los conciertos de rock, las tapas de las revistas de moda, la apropiación de productos de consumo en obras del arte pop y la irrupción de las nuevas tecnologías en la vida cotidiana.
What this book argues for in today's twenty-first-century church was a hallmark doctrine of old school Presbyterianism of the nineteenth century: the doctrine of the spirituality of the church.
Given that we are in a new era in the World Christian Movement, when Christianity is practically no longer associated with any powerful nation, we can benefit from a survey of all major methods of Christian missions used in the past twenty centuries to see what works best in our time.
This qualitative study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers who are part of multicultural teams engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country.
Rooted in and advocating for a postmodern and postcolonial understanding of mission, Liberating Scripture is the first book-length study designed specifically to introduce readers to the emerging subfield of biblical interpretation known as missional hermeneutics.
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.
This volume traces its origins to the 2001 annual meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society with the theme of "e;Lessons in Mission from the Twentieth Century.
On the Road to Siangyang tells the story of a Swedish immigrant church in America undertaking, soon after its organization, a mission to central China that would last nearly sixty years, from 1890 to 1949, when Christian missionaries had to leave the Chinese Mainland upon the establishment of the People's Republic.
Supporting Mission Among All PeoplesGlobal Member Care (Volume 3): Stories and Strategies for Staying the Course is part of ongoing efforts over the past thirty years to shape and support the field of member care in mission.
Offers readers a way to find their place in God's story A creative invitation to those who are on the margins of the church Recent research in the sociology of religion indicates that around one in five Americans are religiously ';liminal,' that is, they are on the fence about affiliating with a faith or a congregation.
George Albert Simons (1874-1952) of New York State was the first and only American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church appointed as superintendent of the Russia Mission.
Evangelicals in the Shadows of Global ConflictIn the twentieth century, a hidden chapter of the Cold War unfolded in Africa, shaped by American evangelical missionaries.
An Honorific Gospel: Biblically Faithful & Culturally RelevantChristians engaged in communicating the gospel navigate a challenging tension: faithfulness to Gods ancient, revealed Wordand relevance to the local, current social context.
