"Evangélico. Usted sigue utilizando esa palabra. No creo que signifique lo que usted piensa que significa.", La Princesa Prometida, sobre el uso que hace Vizzini de la palabra "evangélico". Soy un evangélico. Yo amo las cosas a las que el evangélico se...
Mission Studies & Intercultural Theology
12 Essential Qualities for Christian Spirituality & Theology in a New Urban World
To take head on oppressive structures like consumerism, militarism, multinational capitalism, international communism, racism, and sexism, we need a spirituality of missional engagement… Mission without spirituality cannot survive any more than combustion without...
Is Your Church Structured for Mission?
I grew up suspicious of structures. For me, institutions and organizations symbolized much that was wrong with the world. Sometimes, I speculate on the source of this suspicion. How did it take root in my life? I came from a working-class background that...
Women Theologians of World Christianity
Series Editor: Graham Joseph Hill Article Authors: Jocabed Solano, Drew Jennings-Grisham, Stephanie A. Lowery, Emmanuella Carter, Juliany González Nieves, Grace Al-Zoughbi Arteen, Jessie Giyou Kim, Jen Barker, and Celucien L. Joseph. Cuban theologian Ada María...
Mapping Missional Conversations: Part 2: Majority World Voices
Mapping Missional Conversations: Part 2: Essential Majority World Reading – 100+ Majority World, First Nations, Indigenous, African-American, & Diaspora (Immigrant) Voices The gospel is like a seed and you have to sow it. When you sow the seed of the gospel in...
Abandoning a Diseased Christian Social Imagination
“I want Christians to recognize the grotesque nature of a social performance of Christianity that imagines Christian identity floating above land, landscape, animals, place, and space, leaving such realities to the machinations of capitalistic calculations and the...
Algunas teólogas indígenas que deberías conocer
Algunas teólogas indígenas que deberías conocer Compilado y editado por Jocabed Solano y Drew Jennings-Grisham Editor de series: Graham Joseph Hill Las mujeres indígenas en Abya Yala y el mundo viven su caminar desde el tejido de las sabias ancestras quienes han...
A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church & the Biblical Story
Michael W. Goheen has written an outstanding book called: A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2011). Goheen is Geneva Professor of Worldview and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University. In A Light to...
Mapping Missional Conversations: Part 1: Western Voices
Mapping Missional Conversations Part 1: Western Voices This is a two-part map of the missional terrain. Part 1 focuses on Western authors. Part 2 focuses on Majority World (which some call Third World), indigenous, First Nations, and diaspora (immigrant) voices....
Caribbean Christian Theology: A Bibliography
Caribbean Christian Theology: A Bibliography By Juliany González Nieves Recently, I found myself among a group of Puerto Rican seminarians, who are studying and doing ministry in the “isla grande.”[1] They had come together to take a summer course on...
Integral Mission and Ministry – “Whole Gospel, Whole Church, Whole World, Whole Life”
Prelude to this Series: Five Integrated Approaches Transforming World Christianity and Our Mission, Theology, and Ministry – Polycentric, Integral, Pentecostal, Polyvocal, and Intercultural (P.I.P.P.I.) Welcome to exploring Christian mission and ministry, invigorated...
7 Practices for Hearing and Responding to the Margins
We often find it difficult to listen to those on the margins. Today, many people are on the margins of society. They often feel socially excluded and invisible. People get pushed to the margins for a variety of reasons: social class, race, skin color, religion,...