EditorialThere seems to be a quickening pace of opposition to the Evangelical cause in America and the world today. The relatively sudden emergence of Evangelicals with not only college degrees but PhDs and...
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FeatureAs Christians, we worship a God who is passionate to rescue the oppressed. He has given us a biblical mandate to “seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, and plead for the widow”...
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FeatureTwenty-seven million slaves exist in our world today.’ Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug loom sheds of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break...
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FeatureSo writes William Wilberforce a few months before his conversion.
Greek scholar Gilbert Murray writes in Religio Grammatici, “[T]he moving force in human progress is not widespread…the uplifting...
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FeatureThe year was 1796. Parliament had convened in early February, and was now conferring on the issue of slavery in the West Indies, a trade in which Britain had long been engaged. William Wilberforce,...
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OtherIn the same way, the Three-Self Formula is much better known in mission circles than it is practiced. It has been around for over 150 years, but just to remind you, it states that a newly planted...
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Further ReflectionsLast issue (MF July-August 2007), I wrote about Disruptive Missiology a concept derived from the idea of Disruptive Technology. Even though I used illustrations from current technology (created by...
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