I.   Introduction “At the same time, justified and sinner.”  This is Luther’s appraisal of the Christian condition. Wesley, who owed much ...

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...

Hendrik Kraemer (1888-1965) was a lay Dutch missiologist and prominent figure in the ecumenical movement from Dutch Reformed Church in the...

This post explores the way the church and mission are related and developed in three documents written between 1951 and 1967: “The Church in...

Johannes A. van der Ven’s Formation of the Moral Self arises as a response to the widespread concerns about deterioration of the moral fa...

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

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...

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