Blog Intro Post #3 “The converging streams of mission use and meaning make for highly imprecise, complex, and capricious language… the term contradicts, creates confusion, and can be divisive language.” Its ironic that Western culture is both enthralled by mission and despises it at the same time. Every corporation expends immense amounts of time, money … More Post-Colonial Mission as Gift-Exchange and Reciprocity
Blog Intro Post #2 Global Scholars has historically focused on sending professors to publicly-funded universities rather than Christian colleges and seminaries. This was not because there were other agencies already pursuing the worldwide establishment and resourcing specifically Christian institutions. There were. But it was a vision for a Christian academic voice within the national research … More Dialogical Pluralism for Secular Universities
“Each meeting with a non-Christian partner in dialogue therefore puts my own Christianity at risk.” -Lesslie Newbigin The Open Secret, p. 182 Dialogue with religious others puts one’s own religious tradition at risk. I’m beginning my blog with this quote because Christians have historically too often encountered people of other faiths expecting the conversion of … More Christianity at Risk: A Chastened Missiology for the Post-Christian West
Sensus Divinitatis 