I am representing the American ministerial education ministry, with Dr. Don Sweeting, our RTS Orlando president,and with my other 30 European pastor-scholars. We are a minority group to the "Majority Church" pastoral educators from Asia, Africa, the Continue Reading
December 28, 2009
Stacks of Books and Old Friends for a New Journey
I now share with you some quotes from a few books piled up in a corner of my office. I had hoped at the end of last year, to stack all of my New Year readings up in that one place. Perhaps next year. The problem is that I read at "stations:" some Continue Reading
June 29, 2009
Preaching to the Next Christendom
Philip Jenkins has written some outstanding books on the emergence of the new Global South and East; what he calls "The Next Christendom." Well this weekend I encountered it firsthand. And I like it. A lot. I was called to preach at a retreat for the Continue Reading
The Lord of the Monsoon: As the Tide of World Attention Shifts to the Indian Ocean so Must the Mission of the Church
The smoke of ten thousand camp fires rise from primitive villages and green jungles mingles with the heat and gasoline fumes from snarled traffic in innumerable, economically booming and yet humanity-crippled urban mega-centers, while locusts and flies Continue Reading