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MISSION HITS JOURNALS #5 (Oct-Dec 2021)
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(1) Global Missiology
(2) Mission Round Table
(3) Glocal Conversations
(4A) Mission Frontiers
(4B) Mission Frontiers
(5) Quarterly Bulletin of the Asia Missions Association
(6) Lausanne Global Analysis
(7) Anvil: A Journal of Theology and Mission
(8) The International Journal of Frontier Missions
(9) Journal of Urban Mission
(10) Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology
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(11) Social Sciences and Missions
(12) Studies in World Christianity
(13) Journal of Religion and Demography
(14) Evangelical Missions Quarterly
(15) International Bulletin of Mission Research
(16A) Mission Studies
(16B) Mission Studies
(17) Ecclesial Futures
(18) International Review of Mission
(19) Missiology: An International Review
(20A) Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
(20B) Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
(21) Acta Missiologiae
(22) Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
October 2021, Vol. 18.4
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Apologetics in a Digital Age: Incarnating the Gospel for Africa’s Next Gens
(Kevin Muriithi Ndereba)
What Is New and What Is Old
J. Nelson Jennings
Contextualization: An Enkiteng Hermeneutic—Reading (and Hearing!) the Bible with Maasai Christians: A Review Essay and Proposal
Joshua Robert Barron
Contemporary Practice: Losing Yourself for the Sake of the Gospel: Witness in the Early Church and Implications for Evangelism in Spain Today
Deborah Galyen
Apologetics in a Digital Age: Incarnating the Gospel for Africa’s Next Gens
Kevin Muriithi Ndereba
The Life and Ministry of Erlo Hartwig Stegen
Elfrieda M.-L. Fleischmann, Ignatius W. Ferreira
"Mission and Prayer"
May-Aug 2021, Vol. 16.2
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Prayer in Mission—the Essential Ingredient (David Harley)
Dixon E. Hoste and Prayer
Patrick Fung
Jesus’ Prayer for His Disciples and His Missional Church
Michael Widmer
Inspirer and Hearer of Prayer: Teach Me to Pray
Laura-Jane Meas
Gospel Doors and Gospel Bridges
Sijmen den Hartog
Prayer in Mission—the Essential Ingredient
David Harley
The Changing Role of Missionaries as Locals Take on More of the Work
Andy Smith
"Hinge Times in the Great Commission"
Dec 2021, Vol. 9.2
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‘We prepared for the wrong pathogen’: Questions for Strategic Adaptation in Mission in a Post-Covid 19 World (Steve Cochrane)
Moving out of Oppression into Empowerment: An Evaluation of Indian Educational History Out of Oppression
Sarah Jose
Las Dos Caras De la Moneda: Perspectiva Bíblica de Gobierno y Economía en Coherencia
Ana Roncal Villanueva
‘We prepared for the wrong pathogen’: Questions for Strategic Adaptation in Mission in a Post-Covid 19 World
Steve Cochrane
The Lack of the Anointing of Togetherness
José & Rosana Liste
Is It Possible to Speak of a Surviving Church or Missional Church? Reactions to Steve Cochrane’s Essay
Gleyds Silva Domingues
"Do You Really Have a Biblical Worldview?"
Nov/Dec 2021
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Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for Mission (J. D. Payne)
God’s Mission Is a Battle for Hearts and Minds
Rick Wood
Reconstructing a “House of Knowledge”
Debbie Wood
How Do Our Worldviews Develop and Why Should We Care What People Believe?
Jeff Myers
The Five False Worldviews That Ensnare Your Church
Jeff Myers
How to Stop the Bad Ideas That Plague Us
Jeff Myers
Thoughtlessness: Far More Dangerous Than We Realize
Jeff Myers
Can you imagine?
Ben Keiser
Launching Movements among Muslims: Case Studies of Best Practices—Antioch Family of Churches 24:14 Update
William J. Dubois
Toward the Edges
Kevin Higgins
Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for Mission
J. D. Payne
What Shapes our Views
Greg Parsons
"The Changing Shape of People Group Strategy"
Jan/Feb 2022
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Reimagining & Re-envisioning People Groups (Leonard N. Bartlotti)
It is Said That the Only Constant in Life is Change
Rick Wood
Reimagining & Re-envisioning People Groups
Leonard N. Bartlotti
Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Globalization
Brad Gill
People Groups and the Bible
Dave Earl Datema
One Unreached People Group at a Time
Duane Frasier
Making Data Count in Reaching the Unreached
Chris Maynard
Toward the Edges
Kevin Higgins
Use of Outside Funding In Multiplying Disciples and Churches
Steve Parlato
Can You Make Disciples Without Accountability?
C. Anderson
Toward a Biblical Missiology of Mobilization
Ryan Shaw
Understanding Our Time
Greg Parsons
Oct 2021, Vol. 73
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Conceptual Framework for Developing Indigenous Theology (David Gyeong Han)
Conceptual Framework for Developing Indigenous Theology
David Gyeong Han
Dispersion, Diversity and Beyond: Exploring the Roots of Mission and Migration in Genesis 1-12
Ted Rubesh
The Tower of Babel Revisited
Wati Longkumer
The Beginnings of Holiness Teachings in Japan
Esther Maxton
Emotional Intelligence in Missions
John Edmiston
Nov 2021, Vol. 10.6
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A Global Standard for Ministry Training (Manfred Waldemar Kohl)
A Global Standard for Ministry Training
Manfred Waldemar Kohl
Reaching the World’s Rising Nonreligious
Steve Moon
What is Islam’s Relationship to Christianity?
Mark Durie
A Korean ‘Love Sonata’ for Japan
Eiko Takamizawa
"The Gift of African Diaspora Churches in the UK"
Nov 2021, Vol. 37.3
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Rivers In the Desert: The Story of African Christianity in Britain (Sheila Akomiah-Conteh)
Historical Development of Black Pentecostal Churches in Britain
Israel Olofinjana
African Millennial Christians in The Diaspora and The Identity Question
Joseph Ola
Rivers In the Desert: The Story of African Christianity in Britain
Sheila Akomiah-Conteh
African Congregations Adapting to Covid-19: Conversations with African Christian Nurses in Britain
Harvey Kwiyani and Paul Ayokunle
Finding My Place: Isn’t Christianity the White Man’s Religion?
Rosie Hopley
July-Dec 2021, Vol 38.3-4
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Fulfillment Theology (Terry C. Muck)
Karl Ludvig Reichelt's Pilgrimage: From Conservative Lutheranism to Experiments with Dialogical Outreach to China's Buddhist Monks
Notto R. Thelle
Reichelt's Inclusivism in Retrospect and Prospect: A Crisis for Mission?
Notto R. Thelle
Innovations in Buddhist-Christian Encounters: Karl Reichelt's Contributions
Terry C. Muck
Fulfillment Theology
Terry C. Muck
My Pilgrimage in Christian-Buddhist Encounter. Lessons for Today's Practitioners
Notto R. Thelle
The Many Tongues of Pentecost? A Chinese-Malaysian-American Pilgrimage in Christian-Buddhist Encounter
Amos Yong
A Journey of Two Parts! Some Reflections on Reaching Out to the Buddhist World
Rory Mackenzie
My Pilgrimage in Christian-Buddhist Encounter: From T. Lobsang Rampa to Mahatma Ghandi
Terry C. Muck
Dec 2021, Vol. 7.2
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A Cultural Exegesis of a South Philadelphia Neighborhood (Gino Curcuruto)
The Role of Faith in Addressing Gun Violence: A Change of Perspective
Drick Boyd
Pastoring Youth Behind Bars
Damone B. Jones, Sr.
Creating Thirdspaces in the Time of COVID
Joel Aguilar Ramírez
A Life Redeemed: From Chaos to Peace
Leo Mota
A Cultural Exegesis of a South Philadelphia Neighborhood
Gino Curcuruto
Opening Up the Gift of the City
Reginald Smith
Oct-Dec 2021, Vol. 3.3-5
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Christian Advocacy Ministry in African Christianity: The Nature, Prospects and Challenges in Ghana (Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong)
Reading Naboth’s Refusal (1 Kings 21:3) from the Sediq Mother Tongue
Risaw Walis
Christian Advocacy Ministry in African Christianity: The Nature, Prospects and Challenges in Ghana
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
Examining the Translation and the Interpretation of ᾱμπɛλος (ampelos) and κλῆμᾱ (klema) as bobe and ban/mman in the Asante-Twi Bible.
Anthony Yaw Badu
An Akan (Bono-Twi) Mother-Tongue Commentary on the Second Letter of John
Isaac Boaheng
"Christianity and Citizenship in Asia"
Dec 2021, Vol. 34.3-4
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Traffics of the Sacred and the Secular: Christianity and Citizenship in Asia
Sin Wen Lau
At the Margins of the State: Pentecostalism and Citizenship among the Bhils of Rajasthan, India
Sarbeswar Sahoo
Cultural Deference, Community Survival: Sri Lankan Catholicism and the Perils of Religious Nationalism
Bernardo Brown
Because We Are Christian and Filipino: Christianity and the Death Penalty in the Philippines
Jayeel Cornelio and Prince Kennex Aldama
The Synekism of Catholic Faith and Citizenship in Peninsular Malaysia: The Influence of the Société des Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP)
Shanthini Pillai
Deepening a Sense of Being Taiwanese: Conversion and Cultural Continuity among the Austronesian-Speaking Amis Catholics
Shu-ling Yeh and Ying-Cheng Chang
An 1853 Map of the Yoruba Country: The Idea of West Africa in the American Southern Baptist Mission’s Ideology and Practice
Babatunde A. Ogundiwin
"The Anglo-Chinese College and the Beginnings of Chinese Protestant Christianity"
Oct 2021, Vol. 27.3
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Liang Fa: Pioneer Chinese Protestant Evangelist (P. Richard Bohr)
Robert Morrison and the Anglo-Chinese College
Ching Us
Early Nineteenth-Century ‘Murmurings and Disputings’ in the Ultra-Ganges Missions
R. G. Tiedemann
Liang Fa: Pioneer Chinese Protestant Evangelist
P. Richard Bohr
Protestant Publishing in Chinese at the Anglo-Chinese College, Malacca, 1818–1843
Ryan Dunch
Revisiting the Bible Translation of Robert Morrison and William Milne
Archie C. C. Lee
Prof. Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann, 1941—2019
Lars Peter Laamann
Dec 2021, Vol. 8.1-2
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The World by Religion
Todd M. Johnson and Peter F. Crossing
Measuring the Size of the U.S. Jewish Population: New Estimates from a Pew Research Center Survey of Jewish Americans
Conrad Hackett and Jacob Ausubel
Charismatic Christianity’s Impact on Growth and Revival in Singapore: The Case of the Methodist Church from 1889–2012
Justin E. Lane
Projecting Global Religious Populations, 2020–50
Todd M. Johnson and Peter F. Crossing
Oct-Dec 2021, Vol. 57. 4
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Innovation and the Field Missionary (Ted Esler)
Innovation in Missions Is Critical
Marvin J. Newell
Time to Pass the Journal’s Leadership Baton
Marvin J. Newell
Innovation and the Field Missionary
Ted Esler
Innovation With the Mind of Christ
Brent McHugh
Mission Leadership of Transformation in a World of Complexity
George Yip
Issues of Identity and Platform in Bringing the Good News
Ian Prescott
Golden Opportunities for the Prepared Global Professional
Glenn Deckert
Business for Movements via Pioneer Business Planting
Mary Ho and Vicky Warren
Every Believer, Every Platform, Every Nation: Unleashing an Army of the Whole House Through Marketplace Ministry
Ferdinand Nweke
Broadening the Church’s Résumé
Sharon R. Hoover
How Can Missionaries Work from Home?
Julie Ma
Media Ministries: Developing a Common Vocabulary to Strengthen Spiritual Impact
Phill Butler
Jan 2022, Vol. 46.1
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Refugees and the Mission of the Church (Cindy M. Wu)
What Difference Does Twenty Years Make? Imagining the Future in Humble Hindsight
Easten Law
Introduction to the Special IBMR Issue on the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition
Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson
Christians in and from the Middle East: Lessons from the World Christian Encyclopedia
Deanna Ferree Womack
Global Catholicism: Diverse, Troubled, Holding Steady
J. J. Carney
Women Worldwide: Interplay between Church and Society and the Gender Paradox
Wai-Yin Christina Wong
What the World Christian Encyclopedia Tells Us about Freedom of Religion or Belief
Ewelina U. Ochab
Refugees and the Mission of the Church
Cindy M. Wu
The Uniqueness of the Chinese Mission Movement—Past, Present, and Future
Mary Ho and Rudolf Mak
World Christianity and Religions 2022: A Complicated Relationship
Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. Crossing
The Poverty Captivity of Mission in the Churches—and Strategies for Its Liberation
Titus Presler
The Legacy of Anna E. Hall, African American Missionary to Liberia
Jenny McGill
Missionaries and the Construction of Christian Homes: Examining the Formation of African Social Identities in Colonial Malawi
Dorothy Tembo
Social Capital and the Church: Engaging Virtually for the Sake of the World
Simone Mulieri Twibell
Sep 2021, Vol. 38.2
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Learning from “Fresh Expressions of Church” and the “Loving-First Cycle” through a Case Study from Cape Town
Benjamin Aldous and Michael Moynagh
Colonial Politics, Missionary Rivalry, and the Beginnings of Seventh-Day Adventist Mission in Northern Nigeria
John Garah Nengel† and Chigemezi Nnadozie Wogu
The Persistence of Igbo Worldview in the Sabbath Church Healing Liturgy and Praxis
Ndidi Justice Gbule and Chigozie Samuel Nwaka
Identity and Nation-Building: Intercultural Reading of Isaiah 56–66 in the Ghanaian Context
Nicoletta Gatti
Marginalization and Negotiation of Boundaries: The Case of the Armenian Church in Iran
Sara Afshari
Dec 2021, Vol. 38.3
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Nigerian Pentecostal Diasporic Missions and Intergenerational Conflicts: Case Studies from Amsterdam and London (Bisi Adenekan-Koevoets)
Missions in Contested Places/Spaces: The SPG, Slavery, and Codrington College, Barbados
Janice McLean-Farrell and Michael Anderson Clarke
The Prophetic Lens: A Missiological Function of Film for Black Social Movement from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Camera Phone
Phillip Allen
Speaking for Ourselves: The Ghanaian Encounter with European Missionaries – Sixteenth–Twenty-first Centuries
Daniel Justice Eshun
Racism and Religious Intolerance: A Critical Analysis of the Coloniality of Brazilian Christianity
Raimundo C. Barreto
Nigerian Pentecostal Diasporic Missions and Intergenerational Conflicts: Case Studies from Amsterdam and London
Bisi Adenekan-Koevoets
‘Mama I Can’t Breathe!’: Black/African Women of Faith Groaning for Social Justice and Gender Equality
Damaris Parsitau, Esther Mombo, Ini Dorcas Dah, and Tatiana Wairimu Gitonga
Dec 2021, Vol. 2.2
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Courageous, Purposeful, and Reflexive: Writing as a Missional and Emergent Task
(Lynne Taylor, Elaine Heath, Nigel Rooms, And Steve Taylor )
Missional Hospitality Towards Healing: A Narrative Approach in Missiology
Bokyoung Park
Wilding the Church: Reflections on the Process of Wilding as a Metaphor for the Church as a Co-Agent in Mission with the Holy Spirit in a Secular Age
Paul Bradbury
Business Analogies at Church: A Hermeneutical Study into the Use of Analogy for Missional Church Leadership
Ian Robinson
The Franciscan Vow of Poverty as an Ancient and Modern Resource for Innovative Missional Practice
James Fox-Robinson
Courageous, Purposeful, and Reflexive: Writing as a Missional and Emergent Task
Lynne Taylor, Elaine Heath, Nigel Rooms, And Steve Taylor
Nov 2021, Vol. 110.2
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Competing Visions of Mission and Unity among Japanese Protestants and Missionaries in Japan (1859–1912)
Thomas John Hastings
Mission and Christian Unity: Some Recent Hermeneutic Approaches in the Orthodox Church
Dimitrios Keramidas
The Gospel of Reconciliation and the Promise of a New Identity
Jukka A. Kääriäinen
Toward Comm/unity amids Brokenness: Christian Mission as (a Pursuit of) Relational Anthropology
Pavol Bargár
Draw the Circle Wide: Mission and Unity in the 21st Century
Kenneth R. Ross
A Common Word (Surah 3:64) between Muslims and Christians?: Reflections on Interreligious Misunderstandings and Polyphonic Understanding
Henning Wrogemann
Church and Cultures in the Catholic Missionary Renewal of the Early 20th Century: Critical Issues in the Thought of Costantini, Manna, and Vanzin
Roberto Marinaccio
Mission in Unity: A Study on the Multidimensional Works of Oliver R. Avison from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals
Meehyun Chung
The Need of Global Social Nearness in Light of the Teachings of the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti
Reginald Alva
The Liberating Humour of Desmond Tutu
Tinyiko Maluleke
Nordic Missiological Discourses following Together towards Life and the Arusha World Mission Conference
Beate Fagerli
Oct 2021, Vol. 49.4
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Approaching Honor And Shame With Humility: Limitations to Our Current Understanding (David R Dunaetz)
Eucharistic Interdependence: A Biblical Theology of Support Raising
Kristina Whiteman
Why Hong Kong Millennial Christians Switch From Chinese Local Churches to International Churches: A Qualitative Study
John Snelgrove, Natalie Chan And Hui Kar Yan Alison
Describing The Good Professor From The Perspective Of Theological Students In French-Speaking Africa
C Bryan Davis
Every Tribe And Nation: A Demographic Study of The Fellowship of European International Churches
Anthony J Gryskiewicz, Anna K Gryskiewicz And Tomas Gollery
Outreach to Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore: Understanding Partnerships in Diaspora Mission Between Church And Parachurch Organizations
Jackie Jia Chyi Hwang
Evaluating The Nigerian Prosperity Gospel as a Mixed Ideology
Augustine Igho Omavuebe
Approaching Honor And Shame With Humility: Limitations to Our Current Understanding
David R Dunaetz
Sep 2021, Vol. 50.2
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Between Rejection and Revitalization: Tokunboh Adeyemo and African Traditional Religions
Wouter van Veelen
The Mennonitization of the Mass Media in Paraguay
Henri Gooren
Towards Enlarged Cross-Textual Reading in a Multi-Faith Context
Daniel K. Listijabudi
Dec 2021, Vol. 50.3-4
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In Memoriam: Karel A. Steenbrink 1942–2021
Martha Frederiks
Reading the Bible Together with Muslims: David as Sinner King and Repentant Prophet
Karel A. Steenbrink
Exploring the Possible Contributions of the African Palaver towards a Participatory Synodal Church
Stan Chu Ilo
Contextual Theology as Heritage Formation: Moluccan Culture, Christianity, and Identity
Jip Lensink
Modern African Missionaries. A Reassessment of Their Impact in Uganda 1890s–1920s
Emma Wild-Wood
The Crisis of Indian Secularism
Enrico Beltramini
2021, Vol. 8
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Young people, Youth Ministry, and Youth Theology: Sources of Inspiration for Mission
Franktisek Stech
How to Live a Happy Life? A Comparative Reading of Some Stoic Authors and Some New Testament Texts about the Knowledge Of God and Its Relevance for Youth Ministry and Education in Contemporary Central and Eastern
Åpprad M.Foszto
A Missiological Assessment of the 2016 Sociological Survey on the Baptist Youth in Hungary
Benjamin Bacso And Szilård Amadé Joföldi
Spirituality Of Alienation in the Context Of Kosovo: A Constructive Approach to Alienation of Christians Based on 1 Peter 1:1
Rik Lubbers
Missionary Radio in Communist Europe: Trans World Radio, 1954-1989
Branko Bjelaiac
The Project "Bible 2": A Case Study of Cross-Denominational Youth-Ministry in Romania
Daniela Loghin-Meisaros
Oct 2021, Vol. 38.4
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Ecological Challenges and Injustice from a Missiological Perspective (Ji Young Jung)
Ecological Challenges and Injustice from a Missiological Perspective
Ji Young Jung
Protestant Revivals (Awakenings) and Transformational Impact: A Comparative Evaluation Framework Applied on the Revival among the Zulus (South Africa)
Elfrieda Fleischmann, Ignatius W Ferreira, and Francois Muller
Re-engaging Spiritual Formation in Online Theological Education
Cornelis van der Knijff
The Struggle of NZV1 in Spreading the Gospel in Garut, West Java, Indonesia, in the Early 20th Century
Kunto Sofianto, Amos Sukamto, Agus Manon Yuniadi, and Agus Nero Sofyan
Ministry Amidst the Refugee Crisis in Europe: Understanding Missionary-Refugee Relationships
Jamie N. Sanchez, Leanne M. Dzubinski, and Jacqueline Parke
Re-Strategising Mission (and Development) Intervention into Africa to Avoid Corruption, the Prosperity Gospel and Missionary Ignorance
Jim Harries
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