Welcome to Mission Hits JOURNALS #11!
This edition covers new journal editions released between June-September 2023. It contains links to 25 different journal editions, containing 171 new papers and articles about an incredibly diverse set of topics surrounding world mission and world Christianity today. Truly, something for everyone! Significantly, the majority of these papers are completely free and available to read online.
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MISSION HITS JOURNALS #11
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(1) Global Missiology (July 2023, Vol. 20.3)
(2) Missionalia (2023, Vol. 51)
(3) Great Commission Research Journal (Fall 2023, Vol. 15.2)
(4A) Mission Frontiers (July-Aug, Vol. 45.4)
(4B) Mission Frontiers (Sep-Oct, Vol. 45.5)
(5) Oxford Journal for Intercultural Mission (Summer 2023, Vol. 2)
(6A) Lausanne Global Analysis (July 2023, Vol. 12.4)
(6B) Lausanne Global Analysis (Sep 2023, Vol. 12.5)
(7) The International Journal of Frontier Missions (April-Dec 2022 , Vol. 39.2-4)
(8) Missional Focus (Sep 2023, Vol. 2.2)
(9) Mission Round Table (June 2023, Vol. 18.1)
(10) Ecclesial Futures (June 2023, Vol. 4.1)
(11) Seedbed (May 2023, Vol 34.1)
(12) Quarterly Bulletin of the Asia Missions Association (Summer 2023, Vol. 80)
(13) Ethnodoxology: Global Forum on Arts and Christian Faith (2023, Vol. 11.1)
(14) Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology (Apr-Sep 2023, Vol. 5.5-7)
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(15) Evangelical Missions Quarterly (July-Sep 2023, Vol. 59.3)
(16A) Missiology: An International Review (July 2023, Vol. 51.3)
(16B) Missiology: An International Review (Oct 2023, Vol. 51.4)
(17) International Review of Mission (May 2023, Vol. 112.1)
(18) Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies (July 2023, Vol. 40.3)
(19A) International Bulletin of Mission Research (June 2023, Vol. 47.3)
(19B) International Bulletin of Mission Research (Oct 2023, Vol. 47.4)
(20) Mission Studies (June 2023, Vol. 40.2)
(21) Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (Aug 2023, Vol. 52.11-2)
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July 2023, Vol. 20.3 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
The Role of Listening in Intercultural Settings: The Empathetic Act of Listening Gives Voice to Marginalized People Groups (Joey R. Peyton)
The Role of Listening in Intercultural Settings: The Empathetic Act of Listening Gives Voice to Marginalized People Groups
Joey R. Peyton
Preventing Abuses in the International Aid Sector: A Global Effort, and a British-based Case Study
Jim Harries
The Miracle Theology Factor in Pentecostal Churches in Owerri
Ifeanyi J. Okeke
An Elusive Consensus: Traits and Competencies of Movement Catalysts
Gene Daniels & Emanuel Prinz
2023, Vol. 51 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Mission as "crossing frontiers"? - a New Mission Theological Reflection on the Mission Concept of David Bosch (Tianji Ma)
Changing Africa Reflections on family involvement in African Christian marriage
Marilyn Naidoo, Gugulethu Engelbetter Ndlovu
Repositioning Theological Institutions for Urban Ministry - A Case for the Kampala Evangelical School of Theology (KEST)
Emmanuel Akatukunda
Diaconate as model of ministry for urban locations
John S Klaasen
Theological Education for “Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World”
Bernhard Ott
Disciple-Making Movement as an Effective Operational Model for Christian Missions amid Insecurity
Benjamin Isola Akano
Constructing an Urban Theology of Liberation in South Africa Today: A Transdisciplinary Praxis-Approach in the Interface between (Urban) Faith, Politics and Planning
Stephan de Beer
Reimagining How Urban Theology can be used as a Theological Tool that Links Faith and Justice in South Africa
Innocent Mabheka
Missionary ventures of Ghanaian Pentecostals in Europe An exploration of “Reverse Mission” within the Church of Pentecost in Belgium
Kwame Oppong-Konadu
Shall the sun ever rise on South Africa’s new dawn? A missiology of hope redefined
Zuze Johannes Banda
The impact of immigration on the concept of African marriage – A pastoral theological study
Elijah Baloyi
Mission as "crossing frontiers"? - a New Mission Theological Reflection on the Mission Concept of David Bosch
Tianji Ma
Fall 2023 , Vol. 15.2 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
How a Novel Research Framework Resulted in Fruitful Evangelism and Discovery: Introducing Ethnoscopy and Spiritual Patronage (L. Lynn Thigpen)
Survey and Questionnaire Design for Church-Based Research
David R. Dunaetz
How a Novel Research Framework Resulted in Fruitful Evangelism and Discovery: Introducing Ethnoscopy and Spiritual Patronage
L. Lynn Thigpen
Disciple Making Starts at a Different Point Today
Brad Ransom
Need-Oriented Evangelism: Encountering, Embracing, and Experiencing God
Petr Činčala and Allison Sauceda
"Mobilizing the Church to Reach All Peoples"
July-Aug 2023, Vol. 45.4 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Challenges & Opportunities of Mobilization in the Post-COVID World (Mike Adegbile)
Where Are We Now? A New Mobilization Era
Ryan Shaw
Mobilizing the Filipino Diaspora for Effective Missions
David S. Lim
MOBIOLOGY: An Introduction
Max Chismon
Challenges & Opportunities of Mobilization in the Post-COVID World
Mike Adegbile
Redefining Revival for a New Generation
David Smithers
Growing in Mobilization Prayer
Ryan Shaw
The Mobilization Index
Dr. Steve Shadrach
“Go Where?”
Chris Maynard
The Astonishing Power & Progress of God’s Promise
Robby Butler
'Arts, Worship, and Mission in Today’s Church'
Sep-Oct 2023, Vol. 45.5 (Free Access)
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The Future of Ethnodoxology in Arts and Mission (Robin Harris)
Why Arts & Mission Belong Together
James R. Krabill
Seven Core Values That Guide the Global Ethnodoxology Network
Becky Robertson
The Future of Ethnodoxology in Arts and Mission
Robin Harris
The Astonishing Power & Progress of God’s Promise (Part 2)
Robby Butler
Summer 2023, Vol. 2 (Free Access)
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God’s heart for all nations: fostering inclusion, bridging divides, growing understanding
(Tim Wambunya)
The Church Is Not Called to Race or Colour Blindness
Daniel Odhiambo
Symptoms Of Institutional Racism in The Church of England
John Root
Cleansing Racism Through Truth-Telling and Reconciliation
Guy Hewitt
30 Years After Stephen Lawrence’s Murder, How Much Progress Has the Church Made In Racial Justice?
Isaac Charles Bortey Borquaye
The Church Can Provide an Appropriate Intercultural Worship Service
John Root
Why Has Windrush Had So Much Attention, 75 Years On?
John Root & Lara Deen
God’s Heart for All Nations: Fostering Inclusion, Bridging Divides, Growing Understanding
Tim Wambunya
July 2023, Vol. 12.4 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Living the Gospel in Conflict Zones (Eraston K. Kighoma and CJ Davison)
Living the Gospel in Conflict Zones
Eraston K. Kighoma and CJ Davison
Reflections on the Baptist Response to the War in Ukraine
Alan Donaldson
Racial Justice in Mexico and Latin America
Dinorah B. Méndez
A Holistic Vision of Mission in Changing Times
Sam Cho
Sep 2023, Vol. 12.5 (Free Access)
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The Legacy of Ronald J. Sider (Al Tizon)
Innovative Integration and Collaboration on the Mission Field
Steve Sang-Cheol Moon
Beyond Self-Support Fundraising for Missions
Kirst Rievan
Islamic Economics for Christian Ministry and Mission
John Cheong
The Legacy of Ronald J. Sider
Al Tizon
April-Dec 2022, Vol. 39.2-4 (Free Access)
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Crossing Religious and Cultural Frontiers: Rethinking Mission as Inreligionisation & Response (Kang-San Tan)
Refining Our Religious Sensibility
Brad Gill
Crossing Religious and Cultural Frontiers: Rethinking Mission as Inreligionisation & Response
Kang-San Tan
Making Disciples, Contextualization, and Inreligionization: Some Reflections & Response
Harold A. Netland
Udayanacharya's Samvāda and the Dialogue of Traditions: a Model of Inreligionization
Brainerd Prince
The Faith of Fatima: A Case Study of Muslim Followers of Jesus & Response
Anna Travis
What Gets "Converted"? Reflections on Language and Images of Religious Conversion & Response
Darren Duerksen
Dual Religious Belonging as a Contextualised Faith?
Kang-San Tan
The Life and Thought of R. C. Das: His Theology of Interreligious (Hindu-Christian) Relations
H. L. Richard
Ceremonialism: Ritual as a Pathway for Relationship
Elizabeth L. Walker
A Psalmody for Jesu Bhaktas: Hindu Jesu Bhakti in the Poems of Swamy Dayanand Bharati (b. 1952)
Herbert Hoefer
Sep 2023, Vol. 2.2 (Free Access)
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Seeking Shalom (Marijke Hoek)
Seeking Shalom
Marijke Hoek
A Theological Reflection on Loss and Damage
Bob Kikuyu
An Interview with Robert Beckford
Carol Clarke
Understanding Power, Abuse and Trauma
Merethe Turner
An Interview with Caroline Pomeroy
Andy Kingston-Smith
'Race, Ethnicity, Bible, and Mission'
June 2023, Vol. 18.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Time to Talk about Race: Colorblindness and Missiology (Kirsteen Kim)
James 2:1–13 Favouritism Is Forbidden
David Eastwood
Time to Talk about Race: Colorblindness and Missiology
Kirsteen Kim
“Should White People Be Missionaries Overseas?” Absurd Question or Pathway to Reimagining Missional Faithfulness in a Postcolonial World?
Peter Rowan
Power, Weakness, and Status Reversal
Endian
The Formation, Growth, and Development of the Hong Kong Council of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship
Tze Pui & Caoji
The Rest of Your Lives
Rose Scott
'Current Missional Church Perspectives in South Korea'
June 2023, Vol. 4.1 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Small Missional Church as an alternative in the period of Church Decline in Korea (An-wei Tan)
How to Make the Best Ganjang Gejang: The Missional Church Movement in Korea Evaluation and Proposal
Seung-hyun Chung
The Metaverse as a Digital Missionary Site
Sung Hyuk Nam
Churches’ Missional Engagement During the Pandemic and Afterwards in Korea
Bokyoung Park
Missional Discipleship in Post-Pandemic Korea: The Case of Suwonsung Church
Bright Myeong-Seok Lee
Mongolian Migrants in a Korean Missional Church: The Case of Nasom Community
Seon-Yi Lee
Balancing Visible and Invisible Belonging for Korean Migrant Missional Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand
Hyeong-kyoon Kim
Small Missional Church as an Alternative in the Period of Church Decline in Korea
An-wei Tan
'Forming and Envisioning Biblical Ekklesia'
May 2023, Vol 34.1 (Free Access following sign-up vetting)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Forests. Lighthouses. and Jellyfish: Reimagining the Relationship between Movemental and Traditional Churches (Scott Bresljn)
Miracles in the Middle East: Ekklésia-Formation Insights from Muslim-Background Churches .
S Antonio
"Does Jesus Think This Group is a Church?": Defining and Pursuing Church Identity and Health
Howard Bell
Further Reflections on Church Formation, Identity. and Health: A Response to "Does Jesus Think This Group is a Church?"
Neil Van Hyderstodt
Sustaining Healthy Churches in Movements: Leveraging the Five Roles of Ephesians 4 for Multiplying Leaders in CPMs
Todd Lafferty
Forests. Lighthouses. and Jellyfish: Reimagining the Relationship between Movemental and Traditional Churches .
Scott Bresljn
Baptism: Its Theological Meaning and Practical Outworking of Its Application
Andrew Hope
Summer 2023, Vol. 80 (Free Access)
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The State of World Missions Today (& the Unfinished Task) (Marvin J. Newell)
The State of World Missions Today (& the Unfinished Task)
Marvin J. Newell
Challenges from Changes are Opportunities: Reducing Gaps in Recovering
Irene Lee
Missions in the “Network Society”
Eldon Porter
Solving the Training Problem: Best Practices in Online Leadership Education in a Post-Pandemic World
John Edmiston
Mentoring in Missions
Lisa Espineli Chinn
Embracing Creation Care: A Theological Call for Environmental Stewardship
Chuck Baclagon
2023, Vol. 11.1 (Free Access)
Narrative Structure in West African Dramatic Films: Localization and Globalization
Sarah Jane Capper
Art and Mission: Four Questions
Miriam Adeney
April-Sep 2023, Vol. 5.5-7 (Free Access)
MISSION HITS RECOMMENDS…
Mother-Tongue Theological Hermeneutics: In Search of Relevant Glocal Interpretation of Scripture (John Kwasi Fosu)
Praying through the Lord’s Prayer with Meaning and Significance: Mother-tongue Theological Hermeneutical Study of Mathew 6: 9-13
John Kwasi Fosu
Mother-Tongue Theological Hermeneutics: In Search of Relevant Glocal Interpretation of Scripture
John Kwasi Fosu
An Examination of ἁμαρτια (sin) in 1 John and the Akan Concept of Bɔne (sin)
Felix Cornelius Agyei & Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu-Adjaottor
The Ecumenical Conception of Public Life Praxis: The Case of Zimbabwe
John Gaga, Gift Masengwe &Bekithemba Dube
The Bible and Public Theology in African Christianity
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
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'Missions Tech'
July-Sep 2023, Vol. 59.3 (Subscription Access)
Digital Strategies for Collaboration
Andrew Feng & Nick Wu
Technology Is Multiplying Prayer for All Nations
Elizabeth Adleta, Susmitha Kothari, Ray Peng, & Robby Butler
Digital Missions Launchpad
Ace Pendon
Global Missions from The Comfort of Your Living Room
Dorrie Manu
Funnels And Loops: How Mass Communication Is Accelerating Movements
Josiah Palusky
Let The Nations Hear
D.B. Brown
Can Digital Make Us Human Again?
Justin Sooter
Meeting God in The Metaverse
Jeff Reed
Ai Hallucinations, Chatbots, And the Truth of Holy Scripture
Jeremy Hodes
Matching Missionaries and Partners: A Modern Approach
Kevin Horan
Mobilizing Techies for Missions
Dorinda Beeley
Bible Studies Don’t Fix Religious Persecution
Helene Fisher & Elizabeth Lane Miller
Was Paul A Missionary?
Phil King
The Global Impact of George Verwer
David Greenlee & Greg Kernaghan
July 2023, Vol. 51.3 (Subscription Access)
A case study of an insider movement among Buddhists in Thailand
Manuel Becker
Jesus of the gaps: The evangelistic use of biblical reflexes in the Qur’an
Adam Dodds & Richard Shumack
Towards a missiology of marriage and sexuality: A review of Timothy Tennent’s theology of the body
Robert J. Priest
Response to Robert Priest by Timothy C. Tennent, President and Professor of World Christianity, Asbury Theological Seminary
Timothy Tennent
Power and partnership: Implications of redeemed patronage in missional context
Rennae de Freitas
What we mean by public missiology
Gregory P. Leffel, Charles J. Fensham, George R. Hunsberger, Robert A. Hunt, William N. Kenney, IV, Gregg A. Okesson, Hendrik R. Pieterse
Oct 2023, Vol. 51.4 (Subscription Access)
Muslim women’s perspectives on honor
Louise Simon
About-face transformation: Learning to embrace honor, shame, and face
Christopher L. Flanders
Envy: Differences between the West and Africa
Jim Harries
The contribution of Luphurise Mawere’s “Things to do so you are able to succeed financially” to African prosperity theology
Tamie Davis
Israel’s priority in Old Testament missiology
Collin Cornell
From conformity to transformation: Discipleship and identity in the context of social conflict
Craig Ott
Remembering the American Society of Missiology 1973–2023: Remarks at the 50th anniversary banquet celebration
Darrell Whiteman
May 2023, Vol. 112.1 (Subscription Access)
Disciples and Pilgrims, Arusha, and Karlsruhe: Friends or Strangers?
Kenneth R. Ross
Dreaming a New Future: A Call from the Margins While on the Way to the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity
Deenabandhu Manchala
De-Religionizing the Missio Dei
VethaKani Vedhanayagam
Call to Act Together: A Missiological Reflection
Tiakala Jamir
A Jamaican Response to the Call to Act Together: "For the Love of Christ Urges Us On” (2 Cor. 5:14)
Evie Vernon
Sexuality as an Integral Part of the Church’s Being and Mission: The Movement Is Sexy
André S. Musskopf
Caste or Christ?: Qualitative Research on the Presence of Casteism in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in South Asia
Santosh Kumar
Human Agency in the Missio Dei and the Problem of Discipleship
James Butler
Pushing against Gender Barriers: A Latvian Woman on Mission in China, 1908–1925
Kristina Ece
Charles F. Mackenzie, Popery, Guns, and Colonial Conflict: In Conversation with Martyn Percy’s Implicit Theology
Peter C. Houston
Adaptation in Modern Times: Placide Tempels, Luba, and Bantu Philosophy
Frans Dokman
'Theological Education and Missional Formation'
July 2023, Vol. 40.3 (Subscription Access)
Contemporary Ecumenical Missiology and the Renewal of Christian Theology
Kenneth R. Ross
Theological Education as Practice of Hospitality
Marina Ngursangzeli Behera
Opportunities and Challenges of Theological Education and Missional Formation in the 4IR: A Paradigm Shift
Hannes Knoetze
Charism and Liturgy: Elements of the Orthodox Theological Education
Cristian-Sebastian Sonea
Weaving a community of learning and care: The Latin American Biblical University Online during the pandemic
Karla Ann Koll
Toward a blue missiology: Theological education as eco-missional formation
Septemmy Eucharistia Lakawa
The Case of the Theological Education and Missional Formation of the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches
Niza Joy Santiago
Women Academics in Theological and Mission Organisations
Anne Moseley & Mark Oxbrow
June 2023, Vol. 47.3 (Subscription Access)
Missions or Ministries: What’s in a Word?
Thomas John Hastings
An Asian Integral Ecological Theology: Pope Francis’s Teaching in Dialogue with Asian Religions
Peter C. Phan
Becoming a Synodal Church: Political Charity and Collective Spirituality for Philippine Catholicism
Alexis Deodato S. Itao
The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines: Prophetic Mission in the Midst of Persecution
Jerry D. Imbong
Chinese Missionaries in Cross-Cultural Overseas Mission: Emergence of a New Missionary Nation?
Tobias Brandner
The Apostolical Tree: A Visual Aid used by Catholic Missionaries in Western Oceania
Mervyn Duffy
The Missional Implications of the Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr
Joon-Sik Park
“Go Home and Sin No More!” Reimagining Faith that Changes the Lives of Offenders to New Narratives of Rebirth and Transformation
Thinandavha Derrick Mashau
Healing as God’s Intention for Ministers of Reconciliation
Daniel W. O’Neill
Casting a Vision of Communal and Public Life of the Church for the Post-Pandemic Korean-American Churches: Focusing on Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s Communion and Public Ecclesiology
JongSeock James Shin
Bevans Revisited: Reflections on Stephen Bevans’s Models of Contextual Theology
Greg S. Whyte
Oct 2023, Vol. 47.4 (Subscription Access)
Lessons from a Minority Church
Thomas John Hastings
On the Profile of Intercultural Theology: A Discipline (Still) in the Making
Henning Wrogemann
Pandemonium, Pandemethics, Pantopia: What’s in a Word?
Volker Küster
Lived Poetics as a Contemplative Stance of Christian Witness: The Case from Australia for a World in Crisis
Xiaoli Yang
Insider and Outsider Knowledge: Etic and Emic Perspectives on Empirical Missiological Research and Its Consequences for Theological Education
Tobias Schuckert
Seventh-day Adventist Understandings of Islam and Muslims from the 1840s–1920s
Andrew Tompkins
Stephen Neill: A Colonial Scholar in an Independent Kenya (1969–1973)
Dyron Daughrity
My Pilgrimage in Mission
Darrell L. Whiteman
Mission and Dialogue: An Assessment of the Interaction of Orthodox Theology and Practice with the Reformation
Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina
The Legacy of Hildegard Prozell
Kristina Ece
June 2023, Vol. 40.2 (Subscription Access)
Where Are Children in Missiology? English- Language Publications over the Past Decades
David H. Scott
Church as Family: Creating Healing and Transformative Spaces for Children at Risk through a Reimagining of Ecclesiology
Cara L. Pfeiffer
Spirit-Possession in Fiji: The Pastoral Challenges of Discerning and Healing
Francis Hoare
Power in Context: Healing Practices in Churches in Norway and Madagascar
Tormod Kleiven, Hans Austnaberg, Anne Austad, & Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard
'Africa, Catholicism, and World Christianity'
August 2023, Vol. 52.1-4 (Subscription Access)
Negotiating Catholic Sexual Ethics: Catholic Women’s Experiences of Sexuality and Reproduction
Martha Mapasure and Annemie Dillen
Images of Pain, Images of Hope: African Films as Narrative Theologies of Gender and Sexuality
Stefanie Knauss
Religious Hybridity: Opportunities and Challenges for African Christian Theology. Case study of Benin
Barnabé Hounguevou
Prophetic Dialogue: Ecclesiology for a Vital Church
Idara Otu MSP
Clericalism and the Problem of Leadership in Africa: Reimagination as Praxis
William I. Orbih
Contesting the Shifting Center of World Christianity to Africa: Methodological Reconsiderations
Stan Chu Ilo
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