ESSAY: COVID-19 COULD END CHURCH AS WE KNOW IT. AND I FEEL FINE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, C CHRISTOPHER SMITH, author of ‘How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church’, says the coronavirus crisis has provided the church with the opportunity to reflect on some key questions of identity and mission…
URBAN MISSION: AUSTRALIAN COUPLE LAUNCH CONSULTANCY TO HELP CHURCHES CONNECT WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN SYDNEY
CHRISTOPHER GILBERT speaks with husband and wife team Armen Gakavian and Karina Kreminski about their new Sydney-based urban mission consultancy, Neighbourhood Matters…
ESSAY: WHAT IS THE GREAT COMMISSION AND WHY IS IT SO CONTROVERSIAL?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MATHEW SCHMALTZ, associate professor of religion at the College of the Holy Cross, looks at the concept of The Great Commission…
BOOKS: PUTTING MISSION AT THE HEART OF THE CHURCH
DARREN CRONSHAW looks at a collection of essay by US missional theologian Darrell L Guder…
MISSION: DODGING DANGERS, US MISSION GROUPS WEIGH RISKS AND REWARDS
STEVE RABEY, of Religion News Service, reports…
FROM ASHES TO GLORY
Aussie author David Bennett’s From Ashes to Glory tells the story of CT Studd, an English cricketer who played in the very first Ashes match – with WG Grace. He was even connected to the making of the Ashes Urn! The Ashes Urn. PICTURE: danielgreef (licenced under CC BY 2.0) Soon afterwards CT Studd […]
BOOKS: A LESSON FOR CHURCHES ON UNDERSTANDING ‘CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE’
DARREN CRONSHAW looks at what church and mission organisations can learn from David Livermore’s book about fostering ‘cultural intelligence’…
SIGHT-SEEING: FIVE TRUTHS FOR CHURCH PLANTING TODAY
In an article first published in Lausanne Global Analysis, DAVID MILLER and RON ANDERSON look at lessons for those considering a church plant today…
BOOKS: AN INDEPTH EXAMINATION OF HOW THE BIBLE CAN INFORM OUR ETHICS IN A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
DARREN CRONSHAW reads Mark Brett’s look at Biblical ethics in a postcolonial world…
CASTING THE NET: GIVESENDGO
DAVID ADAMS finds a crowd-funding site made to help Christians live out the “heartbeat of God”…