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This edition has 20 different journal issues within, containing 114 articles.
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Head of Theology (Uganda Martyrs Seminary, Namugongo), DIS Fuller Theological Seminary
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MISSION HITS JOURNALS #7
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(1) Missio Dei Journal (Winter-Spring 2022, Vol. 13.1)
(2) Mission Frontiers (May-Jun, Vol. 44.3)
(3) Missionalia (2022, Vol. 50)
(4) Mission Round Table (Jan 2022, Vol. 17.1)
(5) Lausanne Global Analysis (May 2022, Vol. 11.3)
(6) Journal of Global Christianity (Apr 2022, Vol. 7.1)
(7) Journal of Urban Mission (July 2022, Vol. 8.1)
(8) Ecclesial Futures (June 2022, Vol. 3.1)
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(9) Studies in World Christianity (July 2022, Vol. 28.2)
(10) Evangelical Missions Quarterly (July 2022, Vol. 58.3)
(11) International Bulletin of Mission Research (July 2022, Vol. 46.3)
(12) Mission Studies (June 2022, Vol. 39.2)
(13) Missiology: An International Review (July 2022, Vol. 50.3)
(14) Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies (Apr 2022, Vol. 39.2)
(15) Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (June 2022, Vol. 51.1)
(16) International Review of Mission (May 2022, Vol. 111.1)
Winter-Spring 2022, Vol. 13.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS...
Communicating catholic and Indigenous Christianity: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer’s Contribution to Global Mission (Edward L. Smither)
A Freed African to Free Africa: Alexander Cross and the Liberian Mission
Shawn Daggett
David Lipscomb’s Political Eschatology
Travis Bookout and John Young
Communicating catholic and Indigenous Christianity: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer’s Contribution to Global Mission
Edward L. Smither
Christian Global Network TV (CGNTV): A Korea-Based Multi-Platform Digital Mission Network
J. Nelson Jennings
John Franke’s Missional Theology: A Review Essay
Greg McKinzie
"George Patterson, 1932-2022: The Father of Church Planting Movements in Our Day"
May-Jun 2022, Vol. 44.3 (Free access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Principles Gleaned from 20 Years of Catalyzing Movements in Myanmar (Jay Judson)
A Historic and World-Changing Life Lived Well
Rick Wood
George Patterson, 1932–2022: A Daughter’s Testimony
Anne Patterson Thiessen
George Patterson’s Principles: Led to a Mongolian Movement to Christ
Brian Hogan
Principles Gleaned from 20 Years of Catalyzing Movements in Myanmar
Jay Judson
Patterson’s Principles
Lee Purgason
14 Steps of Mobilization to Reach the Unreached!
George Patterson
Longing for the Golden City
Jay Judson
Toward the Edges
Kevin Higgins
24:14 Coalition Update: Gaining Church-Planting Momentum During COVID-19
Aila Tasse
The Urgency of God i.e. We Could be Going Faster
Rick Leatherwood
The Phenomenon of Church Multiplication in the Book of Acts
George Patterson
Further Thought: Cultural Difference and the Spread of the Gospel
Greg H. Parsons
2022, Vol. 50 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS...
Pentecost of the city: Towards an African urban migratory theology (Afolabi Ghislain Agbèdè)
Pentecost of the city: Towards an African urban migratory theology
Afolabi Ghislain Agbèdè
St Cuthbert’s Mission Station: Fragments of living heritage, the archive and documentary filmmaking – ‘the future of the past’
Lieza Louw
les Eglises à Libreville face aux défis urbains
Calixte Mbakere
Missio-pastoral and theological implications for migration and increased demagoguing in South Africa
Buhle Southern Mpofu
Jan 2022, Vol. 17.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Staying Well (Janet Dallman)
Staying Well
Janet Dallman
A Response to “Staying Well”
Beverlea Parkhill
Training and Attrition
David Harley
Our Missionary Journey
Asholi Akamu
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
Lydia
The Modular Study Group: An Answer to One Part of the Problem of Missionary Retention
Walter DeMoss and Jeff Henney
Mar 2022, Vol. 11.2 (Free access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
A Historical View of the Christian Minority in India (Cynthia Stephen)
Christian Persecution in Nigeria Babatomiwa M. Owojaiye
A Historical View of the Christian Minority in India Cynthia Stephen
Why Canada’s Multicultural Policy Falls Short of the Gospel Ideal Sherman Lau
Theological Education for Digital Natives Kaiky Fernandez and Pedro Dulci
April 2022, Vol. 7.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS...
Different Cultures, Different Atonement Model? Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Fear-Power Cultures (Matt Deaver)
What Does “Untrained” Mean?
Darren M. Carlson
Majority-World Theological Education in the Globalized Age
Anthony F. Casey
Different Cultures, Different Atonement Model? Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Fear-Power Cultures
Matt Deaver
The “Nevius Method”: Retrieving Theological and Missiological Criteria for Money in Missions
Joshua Bowman
Incarnational Pastoral Training in the Majority World: An Interview with Dr. Paul House, Author of "Bonhoeffer's Seminary Vision"
Paul House and Joost Nixon
Dec 2021, Vol. 8.1 (Free Access)
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Missional Identity Development in Urban Christians (Matthew Hallam)
Missional Identity Development in Urban Christians
Matthew Hallam
Mending Fences: Viewing Set Theory Through a “Both/And” Lens
Christopher J. Freet
Merging Our Missional Silos: A Redemptive Opportunity in the Climate Crisis
Allen Drew
June 2022, Vol. 3.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Discipleship, mentorship and training which empowers African women for ministry in the diaspora (Naar M'Fundisi-Holloway)
Problems with "pioneering" mission: Reflections on the term "pioneer"
from Germany, South Africa and the UK
Ben Aldous, Luke Larner, Adrian Schleifenbaum, Rayiv Sidhu
Setting God's pioneers free? The need to release lay pioneers from
the Church of England's narrative of resourcing and equipping
James Butler
Discipleship, mentorship and training which empowers African women
for ministry in the diaspora
Naar M'Fundisi-Holloway
Communal maturation and missional discipleship: A congregational
study
Nick Ladd
Joyful disciples: A study of a missing link in considering spiritual
disciplines and corporate missional habits
Mike Harrison
We want the good life now: Insights from lived religion for a whole person
and communal approach to salvation in the twenty-first century
Dejan Aždajić
July 2022, Vol. 28.2 (Subscription access)
Editorial: World Christianity and Reciprocal Exchange
Afe Adogame, Raimundo Barreto and Richard F. Young
The Break-up of Early World Christianity and the Great Ecumenical Failure
Andrew Finlay Walls
A Missing Link: African Christian Resonances in the Rise of Indian Muslim and Hindu Missions
Shobana Shankar
From ‘Sacrificing to Ancestors’ (jizu) to ‘Reverencing Ancestors’ (jingzu): Bread of Life Christianity's Cultural Negotiation between Christianity and Confucianism for a Hybrid Identity
Sheng Ping Guo
‘The Eliminated Gods’: The Christian Reconfiguration of Jukun Theism
Nathan Irmiya Elawa
The Making and Shaping of World Christianity: Commemorating the Legacies of Andrew F. Walls and Ogbu U. Kalu
Ruth Amwe and Byung Ho Choi
"Bible Translation"
Jul 2022, Vol. 58.3 (Subscription access)
The Translating God
Heather Pubols
Bible Translation is the Key to a Christian Faith “at Home” in Any Culture
Michel Kenmogne
The Landscape of Bible Translation in the 21st Century
Phil King and Dick Kroneman
Multilingualism and Ministry
Kyle Harris
Collaboration in Bible Translation
Paul Kimbi and Sarah Starrenburg
Solving the Consultant Dilemma
Brigitte Rabarijaona
The Time for the Deaf is Now
Marisa Sorenson
Engaging Deaf Tanzanian Children with Scripture
Sensor Joseph Msimbete
Oral Bible Translation is Key to Seeing Scripture in Every Language
Swapna Alexander, Bryan Harmelink, and Youngshin Kim, with Jim Killam
The Jesus Factor
A. Steven Evans
Equipping the Church for Church-Centric Bible Translation
Natalia Piroshenko and Sofia Ivanov with Lincoln Brunner
8 Lessons Learned in 80 Years of Bible Translation
Jennifer Holloran
Rethinking Orality
Trevor Yoakum
A Twenty-First Century Challenge for North American Mission Agencies
Sheryl Takagi Silzer
Global Mobilization – What Is the Spirit Saying?
Ryan Shaw
The New Testament is Not Enough
Peter Yuh Kimeng
Jul 2022, Vol. 46.3 (Subscription access)
Royal Power Perfected (also Triumphing!) in Weakness
Thomas John Hastings
A Faith with Which We Can Go Public: The Witness of Desmond Tutu
Nico Koopman
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Four Hundred Years in the Service of the Missionary World
Marek Adam Rostkowski
The Church and the Pandemic in Burma
Pum Za Mang
Social and Religious Inculturation of Health Care in the Roman Catholic Mission in Georgia
Ana Chkuaseli
An Analysis of the Philippine Catholic Church’s Approach to President Duterte’s Drug War
Christopher Ryan Maboloc
Christian Witness in Turkey: A Personal and Biblical Commentary
Wolfgang Häde
Factors Influencing North Korean Worldview: Juche and Trauma
Robert Holmes and Eunice Hong
Empowered by the Holy Spirit to Serve the Least: Hawaii’s (Korean) Cedar Church
Wonsuk Ma and Julie Ma
Revisiting Lamin Sanneh’s “Western Guilt Complex” from a Grassroots Perspective
K. Kale You
Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa
Dwight P. Baker
Are There Nonproselytizing Methods for Planting New Churches in Muslim Lands?
Christian Giordano
Pentecostal Culture in Rio’s Peripheries: Graffiti and National Political Agency
Christina Vital da Cunha
"Powers, Inequalities, and Vulnerabilities: Mission in a Wounded World"
Jun 2022, Vol. 39.2 (Subscription access)
The Urgent Demands of the Present: Missiological Discernment in a Wounded World
Paul Kollman
Mission as Integral Ecology: Doing Theology at Bethany
Emmanuel Katongole
Shalom and Sangsaeng: Transforming Discipleship in a Pandemic-Stricken World
Jooseop Keum
Wounded in Mission: Where in the World Are You from? Identity and Suffering in Discipleship and Witness
Rosalee Velloso Ewell
Missio Dei: Is There Any Common Ground?
Rolf Kjøde
What Does J.N. Farquhar Have to Say about Islam?
David Emmanuel Singh
A Declaration on the “Russian World” (Russkii Mir) Teaching
Brandon Gallaher and Pantelis Kalaitzidis
July 2022, Vol. 50.3 (Subscription access)
Women’s piety movements in Islam
Moyra Dale
Canaan Hymns: Songs from the fields—A grassroots missiology of the Chinese church movement
Xiaoli Yang
Rural-to-urban migrants: Possibilities for new churches in China’s cities
Jamie Sanchez
Experiencing recent missionary evacuations: Traumatic stress and loss as social networks break down
Susan Gary Walters
Education and discipling in a performance-based or rote learning context
Christine Heather Bird and Moyra Dale
Not whole without us: Including people with disabilities in our understanding of the church, the gospel, and the world
Rochelle Scheuermann
Apr 2022, Vol. 39.2 (Subscription access)
The Shift of the Center of Gravity of the Church from the West to the Majority World
Hwa Young
The Shift of the Centre of Gravity of the Church from the West to the Majority World: A Response
Lindsay Brown
Pancasila and Covenantal Pluralism in Indonesia: A Historical Approach
Philip Suciadi Chia
Rethinking Ao Naga traditional religion
Tiatemsu Longkumer
Missional Discipleship in the Public Sphere: With Special Reference to Lordship, Followership and Christlikeness in the Concept of Public Discipleship
Guichun Jun
Jun 2022, Vol. 51.1 (Subscription access)
Saint John Neumann Migrants Centre/FaceBook Page. A Case Study of a Cyberchurch
Agnes M. Brazal and Jose Eric Mella Lacsa
Beyond Interiority in Christian Conversion: Proximity to Jesus as Patron among Muslim-background “Isai” in Bangladesh
Christian J. Anderson
‘Sacrament of (Be)longing’: Analysis of Finnish Lutheran and Orthodox Christian Eucharistic Practices amid Absence and Estrangement
Talvikki Ahonen, Sini Mikkola, Laura Kallatsa, and Pekka Metso
Attitudes and Ecumenical Recognition. How Do Attitudes Define, Facilitate, or Inhibit Ecumenical Advancement?
Minna Hietamäki
May 2022, Vol. 111.1 (Subscription access)
Mission and Unity: Pentecostal Recollections and the Developing Understandings of Unity and Pneumatology in WCC Documents
Jean-Daniel Plüss
Transformation, Mission, Reconciliation, and Unity: An African Woman’s Perspective
Mutale M. Kaunda
Missionary Cooperation as a Common Witness of Christian Hope and Fraternity
Sandra Mazzolini
Strengthening Unity for the Missional Church: The Role of Theological Education in Overcoming Racism
Peirong Lin
Spirituality of Moderation: Ecumenical Responses to Human Greed – An Indonesian Experience
Henriette T. Hutabarat Lebang
The Challenge for Christian Unity and Reconciliation Today from a Decolonial Perspective
Raimundo C. Barreto Jr
Mission and Unity: From a Latin American Perspective
Lauri Emilio Wirth
Christ’s Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity: A Perspective from Disability Theology
Samuel George
Being with Jesus and Being Sent Out: Unity and Mission in the Gospel of Mark
Lawrence Iwuamadi
Mission Education in Burma, 1600–1948
Pum Za Mang
The Influence of John Dewey’s Pragmatism on the Church Growth Movement
R. Vivian Pietsch
Unity and Mission: Searching for Visible Communion within the ecumenical movement
Susan Durber
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