The Arts: treatments and subjects

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide.

What is our preconception about Muslims?

Talking about Jesus' story with others is designed to be a joy-producing experience for his followers, not to mention those hearing his story.

In this timely book, Cho provides mission scholars, sending churches, and mission agencies with an understanding of Korean missionaries' burnout recovery process.

As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists.

There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it.

There has been heightened interest and prolific publication by missiologists about contextualization since the term was first coined in 1972.

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.

Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities-Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami-from 1865 to 1950.

How many ways can your church's worship equip the congregation for its mission?

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.

The stories in this book are the fruit of a vision that took root more than four decades ago.

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

It is rare for a thinker of Charles Peguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship.

Are you dreaming of working abroad?

Vincent van Gogh believed that one had to learn to read, just as one had to learn to see and learn to live.

In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects.

With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted.

Artist Mary Whyte's Down Bohicket Road includes two decades worth of watercolors-depicting a select group of Gullah women of Johns Island, South Carolina, and their stories.

To a child, all water formations can be summed up as the ocean.

In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians.

The human spirit seems incapable of being stagnant, ever pushing the boundaries of knowledge and experience.

This project explores the relationship between worship, discipleship, and evangelism within the missional church movement.

In the grip of serious numerical decline, American Evangelical churches are now experiencing a missional movement.

This volume provides a detailed account of the tireless, dedicated work of a small group of missionaries sent to China by the American Churches of Christ early in the twentieth century.

Over the past few decades Christianity in the global South has grown exponentially in size and influence, with many centers emerging around the globe, such as Brazil, South Korea, and Nigeria.

Short-term mission trips are commonplace in American church life.

God has an epic plan for the flourishing of all people and places.

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

Persecution can kill the church--unless there is an adequate understanding of, preparation for, and response to this potentially fatal threat.

It's almost undeniable that God is working miracles of healing in evangelization today.

This sweeping survey is the first complete account of nearly 150 years of Protestant missions in Shanxi Province, China.

Children are very eager to learn that is why you should present them with all the opportunities to do so.

You are about to read a book with a double storyline with many intertwining segments.

As the country grows increasingly diverse and complicated, Americans seek, and occasionally find, a common thread to unite them.

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.

The missionary endeavor is as ancient as the Word of God.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

Return for a fifth time with Pastor Blackstone to the fabled land of India and discover more biblical precepts and life-changing concepts as he travels again with his good friend Shibu Simon to "e;earth's farthest bounds.

Can faith be an idol?

Modern Christians have been bombarded by objections launched against the Christian faith from popular secular authors, bloggers, and stars from the entertainment industry.

This book is a narrative, interspersing prose and poetry within a compatible place.

Peoples on the Move provides pastors, church planters, and missionaries with the tools they need to walk out their door and learn the unique dynamics of their neighborhoods in order to formulate effective strategies for ministry.

For the last couple decades, urban church planting has been all the rage.

How does a missional mindset or perspective impact the way we read Scripture?

Imagine being able to connect everything you do in life with God's dream of shalom.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

Cultural criticism for people who grew up with television as the primary background noise.

The Hybrid Tsinoys is a study of hybridity and homogeneity as sociocultural constructs in the development of current ethnic identity/ies of Chinese Filipinos.