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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,

Islam won’t go away. However, Bush did not declare war on Islam, but against terrorists. Yet many people assume that we need to fight a war against the Muslim world.

Is all talk of...

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Tags: islam, muslim, wartime lifestyle

Letters to the Editor Other

Letters to the Editor

Dear Mission Frontiers,

Mission Frontiers ( July-August 2004) accomplished an important service of … counseling students and mission agencies about student debt [incurred] while preparing for...

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Peoples and Partnerships of the Caucasus

Five million people make the Russian Northern Caucasus mountain region their home.  The Kavkaz (Caucasus) mountains rise majestically between the Caspian and Black seas, crossing eight oblasts on...

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Tags: caucasus

Discovering the Wandering Jesus in Central Asia Feature

Discovering the Wandering Jesus in Central Asia

I’ve been in Kyrgyzstan for ten years.  Before going, I felt the Lord said to me, “Learn from these people.”  In the 1980s I had been very encouraged by Don Richardson and his book Eternity In...

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Tags: central asia, redemptive analogies

Bridges in Baghdad (Circa 814): Ties Between Nestorian Christians and ‘Abbasid Muslims Feature

Bridges in Baghdad (Circa 814): Ties Between Nestorian Christians and ‘Abbasid Muslims

Excerpted by permission from Samuel Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1500, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1998, pp. 348-354.

Editor’s note:

Comparing the...

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Tags: baghdad, nestorian

Learning from a Parable Further Reflections

Learning from a Parable

The USCWM was founded in 1976, and the first issue of Mission Frontiers was published in 1979. I’ve been reviewing the early issues of Mission Frontiers and came across an interesting parable, the...

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