Steps toward a Tibetan Understanding of Purity: A Semantic and Textual Analysis Edited by Enoch Wan, Michael Pocock Though of little concern to most westerners, notions of what is considered clean and unclean, pure and impure are of great importance to many cultures. Both ritual and moral purity and...

From Juche to Jesus: A Study of Worldview Transformation Among North Korean Defector Christians in South Korea Su Hwa Keum  What does it take for North Korean defectors to truly embrace a biblical worldview? In From Juche to Jesus, Su Hwa Keum explores the profound spiritual journeys of North Korean...

The Diaspora Returns Home: An Exploration of Diaspora Missiology in the Context of the Returning Protestant Christian Viet Kieu and Viet Nam Bryan M. Woods In recent years, the Vietnamese diaspora, including some of whom are Protestant Christian Việt Kiều, have returned to their natal homeland of...

The Impact of Short-Term Missions on Long-Term Missional Development Brian Bain Lead short-term mission trips (STMs) that catalyze trip participants into mission-oriented disciple-makers when they return home. STMs can be mutually beneficial service opportunities that have positive long-term impact...

Building Community through Hospitality: Insights from Ethiopia for America’s Loneliness Epidemic Jessica A. Udall Loneliness plagues the West, and members of American Protestant churches are not immune. This book examines potential causes for the loneliness epidemic and considers biblical teaching...

Missiological Triage: A Framework for Integrating Theology and Social Sciences in Missiological Methods Sarah Lunsford Most of what we do in missions can be categorized as our missiological methods. As important as our mission methods are, we usually look to the social sciences to guide us, as we...

Exporting Progressivism to Communist China: How New York’s Union Seminary Liberalized Christianity in Twentieth-Century China Christopher D. Sneller Using new archival research, this book shows how Union Theological Seminary exported progressive Christianity to Communist China. Founded in 1836, the...

Rethinking Vocation: A New Vision for Calling and Work in Light of Missio Dei Eric Robinson What does it mean to be called? How does one discern his or her calling? There has been much discussion about these topics within the church, and perhaps much confusion as well. What if we could root the...

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...

New and Old Horizons in the Orality Movement: Expanding the Firm Foundations Romerlito Macalinao Orality formed us. Orality forms us. Orality will forever form us. Orality is a central theme of our lives. In this fast-paced world, few Christian workers take the time to look back to learn and build...