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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created after World War II. The plan was to create this office in 1950, give it a small budget (US $300,000), resettle Europeans displaced due to the war, and dissolve the office after three years. Reports from this week note that […]

European Crisis: Peoples on the Move


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To the Edge: Reflections on Kingdom Leadership, Mission, and Innovation was released earlier this month. If you have not purchased a copy, I hope you get one and share it with others. In this post, I want to share with you an excerpt from the book. Knowledge gained can lead […]

A Humble Missiology


Donald McGavran was one of the most influential missiologists of the twentieth century. He was a paradigm breaker and a paradigm shaper. He called the Church from one model to a new way of thinking about making disciples of all nations. While a doctoral student, I read most of his […]

Ministry of Redundancy



The United Nations recently released an update on the 2050 world population estimates. While there is some degree of uncertainty with such numbers, here is a glimpse at the new possible reality: The population will increase by 1 billion people in the next 15 years. The population will increase to […]

World Population Numbers