Recently, we asked a penetrating question: Who owns the spiritual condition of your neighborhood? It’s fascinating to consider the missional potency…
In 2011, America reached an important milestone in that for the first time in the history of the country, more minority babies than white…
Staying on Mission: What Missionaries Can Teach Us in Post-Christian America A former Anglican bishop tells the story of when he served as the…
5 Churches That Shouldn’t Reproduce by Jeff Christopherson There is legitimate reason to caution against a universal plea toward blind reproduction. There is a…
Many North American leaders in Christian mission and evangelism would consider immigrants arriving in North America from all around the world a key opportunity…
For the last few decades, the predominant missional narrative in North America has sounded something like this, “people in North America are becoming less…
Why We Need a Church Planting Manifesto By Jeff Christopherson We make statements every day. Most are quite unassuming—small facts needed to navigate life,…
Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking the Language of Mission I recently started a series addressing the need to rethink contemporary evangelical missions. In this post, I ask that…
Increasing Evangelism in Church Planting There’s no question that church planting has become the hot new thing. And I’m glad. When I started my…
How Racial and Ethnic Diversity is Shaping the Future of Church Planting The Send Institute Missiologists Council gathered to discuss the most important topics affecting a missiology for North America. In this video, the council discusses how race and ethnicity aren't just merely social constructions, but rather are deeply complicated concepts that need to be