In many places when I hear the word “contextualization” I’m left with the impression that people believe it should happen…
Fifty years ago, today, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel. Like anyone of our heroes, King wasn’t perfect.…
“The new immigrants represent not the de-Christianization of American society but the de-Europeanization of American Christianity.” (Warner, Immigrants and the Faith They Bring, 2004).…
As we contemplate the future horizon of church planting in North America, it is imperative for us to consider one of the main ingredients…
Culture changes so quickly that it has proven challenging for the church planting movement. Although we seem to be experiencing a period of stagnation,…
According to the latest Pew Polls, it seems that the current cultural climate has intensified the angst of racial tension and division. “The share of…
Many church leaders do cultural studies and wrestle with the sociology of place. On a different track, others try to get their heads around…
I care how church planters are equipped for multiplication, so I also care deeply about Christian higher education and its historic role in ministerial…
A brief survey of missiological literature and some of the issues being raised today creates curiosity about the possible futures of Christianity in the…
Roughly one century ago, Christians in the United States walked through a battle about orthodoxy known as the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. Eventually, out of the…