R.I.P “Back to the City” Movement? by Keelan Cook It’s official. The “back to the city” movement seems to be…
Send Institute Most Read Articles of 2018 At the Send Institute, we have a goal to provide dependable research, content, and learning communities for church planting leaders as they create more effective church planting strategies for today and tomorrow. Looking back through our articles in 2018, we highlighted missiologists and practitioners who explored topics dealing with
I have always loved cities. I have been simultaneously fascinated by how different peoples choose to group themselves together and repulsed by how they…
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
Community Restoration and a Holistic Gospel About ten years ago I walked into an Urban Outfitters store when I had the sudden realization…there is…
Adopt Missional Gestures, Beware of Missional Postures By Keelan Cook “Don’t make that face! If you do it enough, it’ll get stuck that way!”…
Derailed Movements: Multiplication Runs On Relationships By Neil Cole The gospel spreads best on the tracks of relationships. This is the design of God. We…
Aspects of the “Missional Landscape” in Contemporary North America I am currently involved in three collaborative projects: an interdisciplinary study on flourishing congregations in…
The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is,…
When we use the word “missional,” we are affirming that the Church by its very nature is sent into our neighbourhoods and cities as…