Lot’s of research, not a lot of insights. I had great hope for this book because of the caliber of the authors and research. I was surprised that the insight per page ratio was so low. The early chapters emphasized the care given to the quality of research, but many of the conclusions

Which one do you like best? I like the Charismatic as seen by Reformed. Leave a comment if you wish.

In addition to the positive feedback in the previous article, I have a few challenges to the design of these church-and-field partnership meetings. The first one is audience. Who are the meetings for? If they are for churches who are already partners, the information is too basic and

I went to one of those people group partnership meetings for churches last week. These are the gatherings of churches to hear from missionaries what God is doing among a specific people group in another country and to consider how the church can participate in the ministry there. I’ve

A few days ago Ames hosted Mary Poplin, author of “Finding Calcutta”, at the Veritas Forum. She was highly influenced by spending time with Mother Teresa in 1996 and went from being a radical feminist to a Christian and an advocate of Christian schools. At the forum, one of the questi

I’m attending a meeting at a church in Houston where I heard from a speaker who said that he was an engineer, but actually after receiving much religious training moved overseas in order to be a co-owner of a cultural center. Ownership of the cultural center allows him to have an answ

This week I was in Atlanta at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) among other church staff from around the country that are focused on church planting. One of our tasks was to develop a list of standards we would propose to insure that church planters conform with NAMB or SBC valu

The book’s thesis is that the non-Native treatment of First Nations peoples has hindered their development and integration in to the church. This disconnection has also caused the church to miss out on the richness that the First Nations expression of faith offers to the full body of

Two weeks ago we held our re-entry retreat for the summer overseas teams to wrap up the projects for the year. Now it is time to get ready for next summer! Last night Dudley Callison of Christian Associates came to speak at The Salt Company and challenge Cornerstone Church’s universit

The next family for the Daniel Project arrived in Turkey to begin their work as church planters.  This time the new arrival is from Brazil. They will begin their Turkish language acquisition and will connect with a team to start a new church. The Brazilian family joins the three Alban

Last week I attended another one of those collaboration meetings. You know, those meetings where various organizations get together to consider how to work together. I think this is my last one. This time the issue was homelessness, but many collaboration meetings are the same regardl