women and the emerging church. a bibliography
For a number of months I’ve been meaning to compile a list of missional and emerging church writers who are female. I’ve been prompted by a colleague who is doing a post-graduate project on women and...
View ArticleFOSMT (free and open source missiology textbooks)
Helpful post here by AKMA on steps to an open source theology. He is discussing the Old Testament, but so very easy to apply to missiology. In sum First, work out an overall structure and uniform...
View Articlea crash course in fleeing Western captivity. part 1 culture
According to Wilbert Shenk (“Recasting Theology of Mission. Impulses from the Non-Western World”, in Landmark Essays in Mission and World Christianity). Western theology has pursued an inward-focused,...
View ArticleReading Scriptures missiologically
Chris Wright has an essay Truth with a Mission: Reading the Scriptures Missiologically, currently free for download here. It is a really good, concise introduction to the idea of the Bible as a...
View ArticleGod in Libya
I’m really enjoying reading Thomas C Oden’s Early Libyan Christianity: Uncovering a North African Tradition. The book began with an invitation for Oden to address the Da’wa Islamic University in 2008....
View Articlemissiology and salt-making
I’ve been slowly plowing my way through Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. (One of the upsides of Kindle – it was going free a few months ago. It’s one of the things I love about e-readers, the...
View Articlemissional readings of Scripture: widow of Zarephath
The missional conversation expects us to read the Bible with missional eyes. That means we pay attention to the edges. We read texts asking – who are the marginal people, what are the marginal places?...
View Articleonline resourcing by KCML in mission
It was an exciting day for KCML today as we hosted our first ever online learning opportunity for ministers. We used video conferencing technology and had 12 participants from around New Zealand join...
View Articlewrestling with strange worlds
Today, I facilitated a group wrestling with Luke 10:1-12. A text that initially felt hard, from an alien world, one that had no immediate relevance for New Zealand today. Out of discussion and honest...
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