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IN MISSION HITS JOURNALS #3 (April-June 2021)…
FREE ACCESS...
(1) Mission Frontiers
(2) Journal of Urban Mission
(3) Lausanne Global Analysis
(4) Global Missiology
(5) Glocal Conversations
(6) Missionalia
(7) Quarterly Bulletin of the Asia Missions Association
(8) Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue Journal
(9) Great Commission Research Journal
(10) Missio Dei Journal
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(11) Evangelical Missions Quarterly
(12) International Bulletin of Mission Research
(13) Missiology: An International Review
(14) Ecclesial Futures
(15) International Review of Mission
(16) Mission Studies
(17) Social Sciences and Missions
(18) Journal of World Christianity
(19) Studies in World Christianity
May/June 2021 (Free access)
Understanding Human Nature and Money
Rick Wood
What Have You Brought For Us? Reflections on Unhealthy Dependency via My Short-Term Missions (STM) Experiences
Alison Gochnauer
Five Times, Ninety Days and One Generation
Jean Johnson
A Support Structure for Staying the Course
Maria Gilbertson
Could Inspiring More “We Did It” Stories Help Break the Dependency Mindset?
Dan Carl
Is There a Cure for Unhealthy Dependency?
Glenn Schwartz
Mission Co-Dependency: Its Symptoms, Long- Term Effects and Prevention
David Bogosian
Dependency is a Complicated Issue!
Kevin Higgins
Your Part in God’s Story: An Interview with Author Steve Addison
Steve Addison
Becoming a Person of Dogged Determination
C. Anderson
The Impact of Dependency on the Home Front
Greg Parsons
June 2021, Vol. 7.1 (Free Access)
#ChurchToo Through the Lens of Trauma
Heather Evans & Hannah Wildasin
The Gospel Versus Patriarchy: Ruth and Esther Have Something to Say
Carolyn Custis James
Jephthah’s Daughter and #metoo
Tamika Holder
Healing from the Bitter Past: A New Way Forward for the Korean American Church
Dave Park
Mentoring: Raising Up Leaders for the Harvest
Bill Krispin
Case Study: Global Outreach in an Urban World
Ernest McNear & Lin Crowe
May 2021 (Free access)
Passing the Baton to Evangelical Migrants
Harvey Thiessen and Alena Popova
Why Missions Mobilizers Need Foundational Training
Jojie Wong
Polycentrism as the New Leadership Paradigm
Joseph W. Handley
Racism and the Great Commission
Jennifer Javed Khan, Rebecca Yin Foo, Paul Lewis, & Susan Ann Samuel
"Digital Media and Missions"
April 2021, Vol. 18.2 (Free Access)
Navigating the Inescapable: Christian Missions and Digital Media
Ruslan Zagidulin
Technology as a Modern-Day Tower of Babel: The Garden of Eden as an Alternative Vision for Missionally Engaging a Media-Saturated Culture
Daniel Topf
Digi-Learning: Accelerating Theological Training and Leader Development during COVID-19 – A Leadership Laboratory
Joseph W. Handley, Jr.
Media Engagement beyond the Coronavirus Contextualization
Rudolf Kabutz and Lars Dahle
Conversion or Proselytization? Being Maasai, Becoming Christian
Joshua Robert Barron
God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time: Overhauling Ralph Winter’s “Ten Epochs” and “Three Eras” Models (Part II)
J.Nelson Jennings
Indigenous People’s Wisdom and the Church’s Mission of Caring for the Earth:
Towards Integral Ecology
Chito M. Sawit
May 2021, Vol. 9.1 (Free Access)
Merchants and Mission in the First Fifteen Hundred Years of the Church in Asia
Steve Cochrane
Misunderstandings about the Christian Worldview in Plural Society and Public Engagement
Tiago de Melo Novais
A Cross Vision of G. Boyd’s Cross Vision
Paul Miller
2020, Vol. 48.3 (Free Access)
Theological Education and African Cities: An Imperative For Action
Stephan de Beer
Equipping Lay Leaders for Christian Ministry in the Anglican Church of Kenya through Theological Education by Extension: Prospects and Challenges
George Kiarie
April 2021, Vol. 71 (Free Access)
Leadership In Mission
Timothy K. Park
Relational Transformational Leadership: An Asian Christian Perspective
Enoch Wan
Leading Polycentrically in Mission
Joseph W. Handley Jr.
“The Spirit of Lausanne Leadership: Humility, Integrity and Simplicity” An Interview of Dr. Michael Oh
Damples Dulcero-Baclagon
Vision And Strategies of House Church Leader
David S. Lim
A Contextualized Leadership Development for Emerging Christian Leaders in Cambodia
Gil Suh
Biblical Leadership
Raineer Chu
"Religious Authority in Hyperconnected Times"
May 2021 (Free Access)
Featured: A Holy influence: Understanding Religious Authority in Hyperconnected Times
Pauline Cheong
Response: What is True Religion and Trustworthy Spirituality?
Kirsteen Kim
Response: Fides Quaerens Intellectum and Techno Religious Authority
Benson Rajan
Response: Between Supplication and Supplantation of Religious Authority
Bala Musa
Response: Cultural Differences and Conservative Directions Within Digital Religions
Charles Ess
Response: Towards a Spirituality That is Authoritative in All Aspects of Life
Phil Towne
Response: Religious Adherents as Power Brokers of Religious Authority in the Digital Age
Paulo Oliveira
Response: Religious Authority in Hindu Guru Digital spaces
Xenia Zeiler
Spring 2021, Vol. 13.1 (Free Access)
The Importance of Hypotheses in Church Based Research
David R. Dunaetz Editor
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Mission Opportunities and Challenges
Paul Lee
How Research on Young Adults Informs Evangelism
Gary Comer
My Pilgrimage in Church Growth
Charles Arn
Spring 2021, Vol. 12.1 (Free Access)
Formation, Continuity and Multiplication of Churches within Australian Church Planting Movement (CPM) Paradigms
David Milne and Darren Cronshaw
Mission as “Foreign Policy”: The Historical Influence of US International Relations on North American Protestant Missiology
Jayson Georges
The Evil Eye: A Contextual Theology for the Arabian Peninsula
Aubry G. Smith
A Phased-Hybrid Training Approach for Frontier Missionaries
Henry Vermont and Johannes Malherbe
Preaching for Formation as Participants in the Mission of God
K. Rex Butts
Racial Reconciliation and the Opportunity of the Lord’s Supper
James C. Black
Apr-Jun 2021, Vol. 57. 2 (Subscription Access)
“Go and Make Disciples of All Nations” –Jesus
Marvin J. Newell
Why Discovery Groups?
Steven Steinhaus
Disembodied Discipleship: A Critique of the Discovery Bible Study Method
Aubry Smith
Discipling Believers from a Muslim Background: A Call to Discipleship Research
Yakup Korkmaz
Transcultural Discipleship Entry-Points
John Smith
Bridging Effective Instruction in “Brain Drained” Nations
Andrew Tlucek
Making Disciples: Why Micro Over Macro is the New Way for the West
Jonah Fox
Media to Movements: A Disciple Making Movement Strategy
Frank Preston
Jesus of the Gospel or the Witch of Tradition: Cause for Vulnerable Mission
Jim Harries
Making Disciples: Beyond Honour and Shame?
Lewis Varley
Which Type of Cross-Cultural Disciple Maker Are You?
Kim Zovak
Poised for Growth: First Century Methods Fueled the Early Church Movement
Derek Seipp
A Response to “The Case for Denominationally Based Ministries Among Somalis”
Ben I. Aram and Ya Sow Lij with Gary Corwin
July 2021, Vol. 45.3 (Subscription Access)
The Political and Economic Vision of Pope Francis: Implications for Philippine Church Mission
Jerry D. Imbong
The “Munich School” as a Corrective in World Christianity
Dyron B. Daughrity
The Changing Face of US Protestant Overseas Ministries: Trends from 1951 to 2016
Jared Book
From Baptist Tenant Farmer to Indigenous Oblate Priest: Jim Holland’s Journey of Missionary Hybridity
Allan Effa
Kingdom Come: The Eschatology of Missionary Maps
David Onnekink
Struggles of Korean Second-Generation Leaders: Leaving the Immigrant Church
Eunice Hong
The Fellowship of Suffering: Insights from Trauma Healing
Harriet Hill
Fidelia Fiske and the School for Girls at Urmia, Persia (1843–1858)
Musa Khamushi
Art, Faith, and Culture in Mission: The Legacy of Pulidindi Solomon Raj
B. S. Moses Kumar
April 2021, Vol. 49.2 (Subscription Access)
Reconceptualizing Indigeneity in Minority Ethnic Groups
Richard Hibbert And Evelyn Hibbert
Windows Into the House of Islam: Including Women’s Spaces
Moyra Dale
Pilgrim’s Missionary Progress: Contemporary Evangelistic Adaptations
Of John Bunyan’s Lingering Spiritual Classic for A Post-Secular West
Andy Draycott
Research Serving Theology: A Model for The Era of World Christianity
Simon Herrmann
Reversing The Flow of Short-Term Missions Within a Partnership Model: Perceptual Outcomes
Simone Mulieri Twibell
Global Health: A New Paradigm for Medical Mission?
Giles N Cattermole
Inside And Out: Knowing Chinese and US Models of Ministry
Daniel Rupp
June 2021, Vol. 2.1 (Subscription Access)
Community on Mission in a World Wounded by Poverty: A Call to Solidarity, Vulnerability and Liberation
Beatrice W. E. Churu and Mary N. Getui
Transforming Discipleship: Missional Church, Discipleship and the Discourse of Transformation amongst the Urban Poor
Daniel Njuguna
Out with the Old, in with the New? An Introduction to the Phenomenon of New Churches in Glasgow, Scotland
Shelia Akomiah-Conteh
A Reflection on Nominal Christians in Contemporary England: A Non-Diasporic Korean Missionary Perspective
Sinwoong Kim
Dwelling in the World with People of Peace: Missional Discipleship within the Missio Dei
Nick Ladd
My Pilgrimage to the Missional in South Africa
Coenie Burger
May 2021, Vol. 100.1 (Subscription Access)
Mission And Reconciliation: Theology for A New Remembrance
Rastko Jović
Reconciliation And the Great (Whole) Commission
Al Tizon
Terrorism And Religious Fundamentalism: A Biblical-Christian Perspective for Peacebuilding in Indonesia
Yusak Budi Setyawan
“Liturgy Emerges from A Wound”: Initial Observations of Developing Ecclesial Life from An Ethnographic Study of The Community Supper at St Peter’s, Mowbray, Cape Town
Benjamin Aldous
From Busan to Arusha, And Beyond: Towards Kenotic Christ-Connected Discipleship in Recent Ecumenical Missiology
Risto Jucko
Moratorium And Reconciliation in A Post-Missionary Era: Retrieving the Legacy of Colin Morris
Jonathan Kankwa
Racism As a Passion of The Soul: Nosography and Spiritual Pathogenesis of The Spiritual Illness from The Perspective of Orthodox Dogmatics
Iosif Bosch
Nunca Más: From Oppression to Peace and Reconciliation in Guatemala
Ambrose Among
Kotahitanga And Koinonia in Shalom as The Objective of The Mission of God
Jay Matenga
Unity For the Sake of Missions: Pentecostal Hesitation and Openness to Ecumenical Collaboration
Arto Hämäläinen
Mission And Reconciliation from A Christian-Muslim Relations Perspective: The Case of PROCMURA in Africa
Komi Dzinyefa Adrake
Churches In Solidarity with The Divided Korean Peninsula: Missiological Reflections on The Ecumenical Efforts of Reconciliation
Jin Yang Kim
May 2021, Vol. 38.1 (Subscription Access)
The Missionary in the World: The Invention of the Soul of Saint Francis Xavier in an Anonymous Sermon: The East, Quito and Rome, 18th Century
Rafael Gaune and Maria Montt Strabucchi
Negotiating Norwegian Mission Education in Zululand and Natal during World War II
Ellen Vea Rosnes
Secularizing Effects of Christian Mission: Fifty Years After Elmer Miller’s “The Christian Missionary, Agent of Secularization”
Maryse Kruithof
Turangawaewae as the Means of Moving from Migrant to Mission Worker: Identification Strategies in Embracing the Context and the People
Mario Weyers
“Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not”: Dealing with the Wounds and Complicities of 20th Century Orthodoxy in Estonia Through the Theology of St Sophrony (Sakharov) and Arvo Pärt
Irina Paert
Wounded Because of Religion: Identifying the Components of Gender-Specific Religious Persecution of Christians
Helene Fisher, Elizabeth Lane Miller, and Christof Sauer
Missional Christian Communities in Conditions of Marginality: On Finding a ‘Missional Existence’ in the Post-Christian West
Stefan Paas
May 2021, Vol. 34.1-2 (Subscription Access)
Missions and the Construction of Gender in the Middle East
Séverine Gabry-Thienpont and Norig Neveu
Religieuses, laïques et travail social en Haute-Égypte: L’ émergence de la question féminine à l’ âge nationaliste (années 1940-1970)
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
American Missionaries in Egypt, Gender Relations, and the Professional and Social Formation of Women, 1854–1967
Heather J. Sharkey
“Have You Ever Been Told That God Loves You?”: Conjugality, Celibacy, and the Heterosexual Division of Religious Labour in an Istanbul Mixed Pentecostal Church
Armand Aupiais
Masculinity, Industrial Education and Fascism in Egypt”: Gender Construction in the Salesian Missionary Schools (1900–1939)
Annalaura Turiano
Obéissance aux clercs et entre soi: Le modèle masculin de l’ université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth à la fin de la période ottomane
Chantal Verdeil
When the Physician Becomes an Apostle: The Persona of the Catholic Colonial Doctor in Interwar Belgium and the Belgian Congo
Maarten Langhendries and Kaat Wils
2021, Vol. 11.1 (Subscription Access)
Where the Spirit Dwells: Reflections on “The Encyclical of the Recent Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church” through an Eastern-European Pentecostal Lens
Daniela Christova Augustine
A Protestant Response to “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”
John P. Burgess
Response to the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
Dale M. Coulter
The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: A Roman Catholic Appraisal
Peter C. Phan
The Holy and Great Council of Crete and Eastern Orthodoxy’s Struggle for Identity in the Modern West
Brandon Gallaher
Disciplinary Trespassing, Historical Analysis, and Geopolitics: A Commentary on the Ecumenical Significance of the Event of the Holy and Great Council of Crete
Elizabeth H. Prodromou
Holy Council Ecumenical Responses: An Orthodox “Snapshot” Reflection in Time
Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald
The Historical Vicissitudes of Hagia Sophia: From Church to Mosque to Museum, and Back to Mosque
Charles Amjad-Ali
July 2021, Vol. 27.2 (Subscription Access)
Editorial: Religious and Political Contestation in Chinese Contexts
Alexander Chow
Religious Rivalry in the Seventeenth Century: A Buddhist–Christian Case in China
Amy Yu Fu
The Hunan Bible Institute (Biola-in-China): A Stronghold of Fundamentalist Bible Training in China, 1916—1952
Kevin Xiyi Yao
The Scientific Calling of the Church: Herman Bavinck's Exhortation for the Churches in Mainland China
Ximian Xu
Reading Bonhoeffer Amid the Hong Kong Protests
Jason Lam
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