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Faith and Public Life: Rethinking Church in the 21st Century

Faith and Public Life: Rethinking Church in the 21st Century Edited By Alfred Sebahene God’s love in Jesus Christ for the salvation and recreation of all things is still the hope of the world.This Christian affirmation is the reality that “holds all things” and “holds all things together.” Yet in...

The War of the Camisards (1702–1704): Huguenot Insurrection during the Reign of Louis XIV

The War of the Camisards (1702–1704): Huguenot Insurrection during the Reign of Louis XIV Stephen M. Davis The War of the Camisards was the last of France’s wars of religion and pales in comparison with the Wars of Religion of the 1500s. There were no nobles to lead the peasant armies, its active...

The Church’s New Front Door: Technology as a Means for Christian Engagement in the Twenty-First Century

The Church’s New Front Door: Technology as a Means for Christian Engagement in the Twenty-First Century Daniel Topf The Church’s New Front Door introduces Christians to the critically important concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era that will be dominated by powerful technologies like...

Finding Direction to Redeem the Nations: Navigating Missions Misconceptions

Finding Direction to Redeem the Nations: Navigating Missions Misconceptions Don Dent Do you want to help bring people from all the nations into relationship with Jesus as he intends? Sadly, there are multiple mission approaches today that are ineffective or even counterproductive to reaching that...

French Protestantism’s Struggle for Survival and Legitimacy (1517–1905)

French Protestantism’s Struggle for Survival and Legitimacy (1517–1905) Stephen M. Davis At the dawn of the Protestant Reformation, French Protestants began their struggle for religious equality and civil rights. They faced opposition from the monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. For centuries...

Multiplying Leaders in Intercultural Contexts: Recognizing and Developing Grassroots Potential

Multiplying Leaders in Intercultural Contexts: Recognizing and Developing Grassroots Potential Evelyn and Richard Hibbert Often, church planters, disciplers, and pastors struggle to identify grassroots leaders and develop them in their context. As leaders who want to develop other leaders, our task...

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission: Academy, Agency, Assembly, and Agora Perspectives from Canada

The Present and Future of Evangelical Mission: Academy, Agency, Assembly, and Agora Perspectives from Canada Edited by Narry F. Santos and Xenia Ling-Yee Chan Crisis is an invitation to both prophetic evaluation and new imagination. In this volume, Canadian missiologists and practitioners consider...

Peoples and Places: How Geography Impacts Missions Strategy

Peoples and Places: How Geography Impacts Missions Strategy Matthew Hirt Jesus’s final command to his disciples was to make disciples of all nations. But who are the nations? How do we know we are being obedient to the task? Do our current lists of ethnolinguistic people groups sufficiently answer...

Missiological Reflections on Life and Mission

Missiological Reflections on Life and Mission Stephen M. Davis The changing face of world missions presents unique challenges. A new generation must both engage in God’s mission and continue to reflect on the human dimension of engagement in the glorious task of making Christ known to the nations...

God’s Unchanging Word in an Ever-Changing World: Messages of Hope for Weary Christians

God’s Unchanging Word in an Ever-Changing World: Messages of Hope for Weary Christians Stephen M. Davis The times in which we live are often described as “unprecedented.” The word might be overused, yet the last few years have seen exceptional healthcare challenges, loss of human life, economic...