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February 2013

February 26, 2013
Legalism is an honor-shame problem. Why? Consider what Brene Brown says in her incisive article...
February 22, 2013
The future of the global church is Open from Distant Shores Media on Vimeo. What...
February 20, 2013
Theological debates are often fueled by a lack of clarity about both the terms we...
February 20, 2013
I get asked about book recommendations a lot. I hesitate to give out "recommendations" because...
February 19, 2013
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February 14, 2013
In the previous posts, we saw that the new covenant has a collectivist dimension and...
February 12, 2013
This is part 2 of a series trying to interpret the new covenant from a...
February 07, 2013
One thing that gets me excited is thinking about the way that an eastern (e.g....
February 05, 2013
"If sin is framed in terms of shame, however, then a legal solution to something...
February 01, 2013
This is second post where I answer a reader's questions about my latest article, "We...

January 2013

January 30, 2013
As I announced previously, my newest article was published in Global Missiology. Someone read it...
January 28, 2013
Here are some good reasons why you should NOT wait for the kids to get...
January 25, 2013
One of the glaring weaknesses of missionaries to China is the lack of theological language,...
January 23, 2013
Here's a good quote relating glory-honor to works: "The one good work that God requires...
January 21, 2013
This is Part 3 in a series that aims to help people understand contextualization. Contextualization...
January 16, 2013
What we don't know about contextualization CAN hurt our gospel ministry. Typically, people regard contextualization...
January 14, 2013
This is part 1 in a series on contextualization. It first considers conventional evangelical views...
January 10, 2013
Here's the second part of Karl Dahlfred's reply to my questions. After you read his...
January 09, 2013
I know a number of mission agencies will begin having winter meetings in the coming...
January 07, 2013
I've asked Karl Dahlfred to answer a few follow-up questions I had stemming from his...
January 03, 2013
Why do we like sports and why does it matter for missions? This is a...
January 02, 2013
Check out the January edition of Global Missiology, which includes my article titled, "We Compromise...

December 2012

December 31, 2012
Someone left a comment on the previous post about Hudson Taylor and the state on...
December 29, 2012
This post interacts with the second part of a blog series posted by Global China...
December 27, 2012
The Global China Center ran a two-part series entitled "Respecting Chinese Culture: The Example of...
December 25, 2012
I just got word that Karl Dahlfred's book Theology Drives Methodology, which I reviewed recently,...
December 23, 2012
Here are some good reminders that what missions is not about. The gospel concerns politics...
December 20, 2012
In a previous post, I summarized Karl Dahlfred's Theology Drives Methodology: Conversion in the Theology...
December 18, 2012
I recently saw a Tweet by someone asking whether secondary doctrines were nonessential or non-important....
December 17, 2012
I recently had the privilege of reading Karl Dahlfred's Theology Drives Methodology: Conversion in the...
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