Alan Roxburgh has been writing books about how the church can respond to the massive cultural change afoot for two decades. His latest offe...

D. Moody Smith’s The Theology of the Gospel of John is a topical, but unquestionably scholarly, survey of Johannine theology. A brief...

Two frequently recommended texts in the burgeoning church planting literature are Aubrey Malphurs’ Planting Growing Churches for the 21st ...

This is part two of my engagement with Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions in a Changing Contex t.  This post offe...

Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions in a Changing Context is a rare example of a denominational report written by...

Neil Cole believes “that church should happen wherever life happens” (24).  As founder of the Awakening Chapels network and Church Multip...

As an updated and renamed version of Stetzer’s 2003 text, Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age , Planting Missional Churches seeks t...

A while back I was invited to speak to a group called Theology on Tap about "The Gospel in a Post-Christian World.  The topic, it see...

In my assessment, no other early 20th century missiologist is more in vogue than Roland Allen.  His books are being widely recommended and...

  In Evangelical Hospitality: Catechetical Evangelism in the Early Church and its Recovery for Today Tory K. Baucum self-consciously e...

In Everything Must Change , Brian McLaren maps his journey with two questions that have shaped his life: What are the biggest problems in th...

I can still remember the sights and sounds of Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum. I had made the trip to Kenya during the Christmas break...

Some have referred to Christian Smith as a “rock star” among sociologists of Religion due to his prolific and wide-ranging work. Currently s...

As the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of...

Christian Smith is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame...

To put words in the mouth of Vincent J. Donovan:  After a futile century of missionary strategies in Africa that centered on purchasing ...

According to George Hunter III:  The way St. Patrick and those who followed in his legacy went about evangelism has much to teach us toda...

According to Bryan Stone: Evangelism, as a practice of the Spirit, is therefore  utterly pacifist in nature.  The pacifism of ev...

According to Bryan Stone: Christian conversion is foremost an exchange of narratives. Two rival narratives have significantly shaped the so...

If you haven't read Bryan Stone's Evangelism After Christendom : The Theology and Practice of Christian Witness , consider these...