A Few Helpful Resources on Migration Issues

In this post, I want to share with you a few helpful books that I’ve come across in my research in the area of diaspora missiology. To the majority of you reading this post, the words “diaspora missiology” are new.  This growing category of missiology is the study related to the intersection of the global [...]

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With August comes back to school in the United States…. I wanted to take this post to provide you with a quick glimpse into some numbers making up the student population of the country.  I think you will come to realize that there are important missiological implications behind these figures.   The following came from the “Census Bureau [...]

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I want to bring to your attention a new resource that needs to be added to your library.  Linda J. Weber has edited the latest edition of Mission Handbook: U. S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas.  This work was published through the Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS) at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.  [...]

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If you read the first post, you know that these two posts are the result of the fact that at least three major U.S. news papers carried stories last week on house churches.  In the 24 hours following post #1, I received notice that another U.S. story was published.  In this final post, I want [...]

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At least three major U.S. newspapers ran stories this past week on house churches.  You can read them HERE, HERE, and HERE.  While I was planning to write on another topic today, I revised my schedule to address this matter from my experience and research.  There is clearly a growing interest among people regarding this expression of the Body [...]

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In light of the fact that today is Canada Day, I am interrupting the two-part series that I just started on church planting models.  July 1 is the day when Canadians celebrate the birth of their country.  While thinking of our northern neighbor, I decided to take a moment to share with your some sobering evangelical statistics [...]

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The year 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Roland Allen’s classic book Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?.  In honor of this event, I am presently working on a biography on the legendary Anglican.  At the time of this blog post, only one such biography has been published.  Roland Allen: Pioneer, [...]

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Where are the least reached cities in the United States?  The answer to this question is that it seems to depend on to whom you are speaking.  What I have found to be the case is that anyone serving in an urban context believes his or her city is the most unreached.  Now, while I [...]

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Since I just completed a series on diaspora missiology, I thought it would be appropriate to inform you of a new book that you need in your library.  Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee have written ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (NY: Metro New York Baptist Association; Cary, NC: Baptist State Convention [...]

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I am doing something different in this post today.  Rather than rewrite something I have already written, I want to direct you to an article I published with Lausanne World Pulse in March 2009.   The article is titled: “Immigration and North America: Who in the World Is My Neighbor Anyway?”  I’ll provide you with the highlights [...]

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