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Doctoral candidate (Fuller Theological Seminary)
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MISSION HITS JOURNALS #4 (July-September 2021)
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(1) Global Missiology
(2) Mission Round Table
(3) Missionalia
(4) The Missionary Mobilization Journal
(5A) Mission Frontiers
(5B) Mission Frontiers
(6) Quarterly Bulletin of the Asia Missions Association
(7A) Lausanne Global Analysis
(7B) Lausanne Global Analysis
(8) ANVIL: A Journal of Theology and Mission
(9) Evangelical Missiological Society Journal
(10) The International Journal of Frontier Missions
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(11) Evangelical Missions Quarterly
(12) International Bulletin of Mission Research
(13) Missiology: An International Review
(14) Journal of World Christianity
(15A) Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
(15B) Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies
(16) Great Commission Research Journal
July 2021, Vol. 18.3 (Free Access)
Keep the Embers Alive
Wanjiru M. Gitau
Global South Reverse Mission in Europe: An Examination of the Limiting Factors and Prospects
Sandro G. de Oliveira
The Trouble with Kindness in the Acts of the Apostles
Paul Hertig
God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time: Overhauling Ralph Winter’s “Ten Epochs” and “Three Eras” Models (Part III)
J. Nelson Jennings
"Innovation and Mission"
Jan-April 2021, Vol. 16.1 (Free Access)
Christian Mission and Innovation: The Experience of CIM/OMF in History, the Present, and the Future
Walter McConnel
A First Look at the Culture of Innovation within OMF
RC
Taiwan OMF: Seventy Years of Innovation to Keep on Doing the Same Thing
David Eastwood
A Call to Innovate: Our Vision Demands It
Andrew Goodman
A Field Director’s Musings about Innovation in OMF Thailand
Ulrich Kohler
Innovating Integral Mission
Sarah Hoskins
From Darkness into His Wonderful Light
AY
Moving Towards a More Fully Orbed Theology of “Being Jesus to Others”
Dale Viljoen
Experiment—Learn—Reflect—Make Policy: Reflections on the Early Days of Missional Business in OMF
Ian Prescott
Getting Out of God’s Way: Innovation During the Global Pandemic
Nathaniel Jennings
Conversion Growth in Akha Churches
Asholi Akamu, Kitsada Chahae and Neel Roberts
2021, Vol. 49.1 (Free Access)
From the Margins to the Centre: Commercialisation of Religion - Threat or an Opportunity in Pentecostalism?
Daniel Nicolaas Andrew
African Pentecostal Mission and New Religious Movements: A critical scrutiny of threats and opportunities to evangelization in dialogue with Allan Heaton An
Themba Shingange
Schisms within Congolese Pentecostalism Towards a Biblical Response
Jesse Fungwa Kipimo
Missional and indigenization nexus Assemblies of God and Grace Bible Church in South Africa
Kelebogile Thomas Resane
Zionist ‘syncretism’ in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa before the 1970s A comparative analysis
Thabang Richard Mofokeng
Ndadhinhiwa (I am fed up): A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe
Molly Manyonganise
Caught between the sacred and the secular: The Pentecostal Pastor as a Leader in a World in Constant Flux
Malesela Jan Masenya
"The Role of Diversity in Mobilization"
July 2021, Vol. 1.2 (Free Access)
Mobilizing the Black Church for Global Missions
Melva L. Henderson
Repentance: A Potential Catalyst for Ethnic Minority Mobilization
Richard Coleman
Mobilizing the Next Generation: The Role of Media in the Filipino Context
Joshua Chew
Partnership with the Global South: The Future of Missions
David D. Ruiz
The Strategic Importance of Mobilizing the Retiree
Vicky Warren
Inclusive Mission: God is Removing Obstacles and Calling Us to Join Him
Dave Deuel
"Innovation in Missions"
July/August 2021 (Free access)
Innovation Grounded in the Spirituality of Frontier Mission
Paul Dzubinski and Steven Spicer
Transformation in Community: Discerning Innovative Ways Forward in Missions
Paul Dzubinski and Steven Spicer
Doing Contextualization in Cambodia: Communities of Dialogical Practice
Claire TC Chong
Wordly Collective: Building a Collaborative Ecosystem for Minority Language Community Flourishing
Steven Spicer and Melvyn Mak
Rich Soil for Spiritual Innovation
Joan and Ed McManness
‘Little Drops, Mighty Ocean’: An African Case Study in Partnership
Victor M. Tukura
Design Thinking: Designed for Missions
Brent McHugh
Accelerating Transformation
Ryan Crozier
The Discipline of Innovation: Approaching Planning Differently
Derek T. Seipp
Is This China’s Final Solution for the Uyghurs?
Keith Carey
Toward the Edges: Innovation in a Multi-cultural Setting
Kevin Higgins
The Person, Not the Method: An Essential Ingredient for Catalyzing a Movement
Emanuel Prinz with Dave Coles
"Is the World Still a Waffle?"
September/October 2021 (Free access)
Is The World Still A Waffle?
Dan Scribner
People Group Lists and the Challenge of Growing Complexity
Dan Scribner
Seeing the Unreached World As It Really Is
Paul Hattaway
How People Group Information Impacted a Mission Agency
Tim Freeman
People Group Information in an African Context
George Gumah
More Lists, More Data, More Possibilities
Rodrigo Tinoco
Fresh Vision for the Great Commission
Danny Weiss
People Groups and the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association
Adeoluwa Olanrewaju
Why South Asia People Group Data Looks So Different
Bill Morrison
Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task
Justin Long
Response to Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task
Dave Earl Datema
Are Current People Group Presentations Engaging the Next Generation?
Andrew Feng
A Small Shift with Potential Significant Impact: Viewing Peoples Globally
Dan Scribner
People Groups 50 Years Later?
Kevin Higgins
Translation Quality and Scripture Impact for ‘Last Mile’ Bible Translations
Stan Parks
How Possible Is It to Multiply Rapidly and Still Make Healthy Disciples?
C. Anderson
July 2021, Vol. 72 (Free Access)
Reaching Out in Many Ways
Timothy K. Park
Sex Trafficking and Slavery in South East Asia: To Free the Captives
James Langteau and Timothy D. Dunham
Leveraging International Migrant Flow
Harvey Thiessen with Alena Popova
Jesus' Missional Teaching Ministry in the Gospel of Matthew
Jae Suk Lee
The Essence of Strategic Prayer in the Lives of the Believers
Lizzy Iweala
Online Tools to Maximize the Good News During the Covid 19 Crisis
Sadiri Joy Tira
Things I Learned from My Digital World Journey
Philip Yan
July 2021, Vol. 10.4 (Free access)
Beyond Edinburgh 2010
Kirsteen Kim
Are Foreigners Still Needed in the Age of Indigenous Mission?
Kirst Rievan
Five Biblical Commands for Men and Women Partnering in the Gospel
Chad and Leslie Neal Segraves
Gender-Based Violence and the Church
Analía Saracco
September 2021, Vol. 10.5 (Free access)
Christianity in the UK
Peter Brierley
Reaching Israelis in Berlin
Aaron Lewin
Growing Churches in Hostile Contexts
Phill Butler
When Leaders Drink Tea Together
Mary Ho
"Mission and Shame"
July 2021, Vol. 37.2 (Free Access)
Perspectives on Shame in Mission and Ministry with Young People
Sally Nash
Reflections from the Pottery
Trevor Withers
Legacies and Chains: Structuring Shame in the African Caribbean
Carlton Turner
Shame, Reconciliation and the Pioneer
Catherine Matlock
Whose Honour? Whose Shame? Some Reflections on the Bible
Judith Rossall
2021, Vol. 1.2 (Free Access)
Missiologist as Vocational Calling: The Life and Work of Robert J. Priest
Anthony Casey
Mission at and from the Lord’s Table: A Eucharistic Foundation for Mission
Edward L. Smither
Suffering and Intercession: Pauline Missionary Methods as a Paradigm for the Future of Evangelical Mission
Abeneazer Urga
Toward a Spirit-Led Orthopathy of Mission: Simultaneous Vectors
Phil Zarns
Augustine and the BMB Church of Algeria
Pat Brittenden
Mission in the Changing Youth Culture of Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Sallu
Jan-June 2021, Vol 38.1-2 (Free Access)
Cultural Dimensions of Financial Accounting Systems
Mary Lederleitner
The Gospel of John as Missiological Theology
Michael T. Cooper
Becoming Nikkei: A Comparative Study of Diasporic Japanese Dekasegi Christian Communities
Gary Fujino
Clarifying Insider "Ekklésia": An Historical Review of Key Issues
S.T. Antonio
Institutionalizing a Culture of Innovation
Derek T.Seipp
Hindu Dharma and Experiencing God
Timothy Shultz
July-Sep 2021, Vol. 57. 3 (Subscription access)
Daughters of the Great Commission Speak Out
Marvin J. Newell
Missiology as a Discipline: Its Dimensions and Scope
Simone Mulieri Twibell
Rethinking Trust as a Fundamental of Mission
Cathy Hine
Church Planting in Hard Places: Research Reveals the Strength of a Next-Gen Focused Church Planting Strategy
Patricia Savage and Tena Stone
When Missionaries Are Locked Out of Their Fields
Julie Ma
Practicing Cultural Humility
Miriam Sinclair
Blessing: Baraka in Popular Culture and in the Bible
Moyra Dale
The Role of Mission Organizations in Missionary Well-Being
Kimberly Drage
How Should Christians Respond Rightly to Risk?: Developing a Theology of Risk and Practical Risk-Responses for Missional Christians
Autumn Chen
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Deb McQuilkin
Sinach’s “I Know Who I Am”: Progress Prosperity as Discipleship
Tamie S. Davis
Re-Thinking Mobilization
Jenn Williamson
Ministry Among Muslim Women: Distinctive Voices, Themes, and Approaches
Louise Simon
October 2021, Vol. 45.4 (Subscription access)
Making Your Grave with the People
Thomas John Hastings
Andrew Finlay Walls (1928–2021)
Brian Stanley
Divine Epidemiologists: Christianity, Faith, and Public Health
in Africa, 1918–2021
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
COVID-19 and the Mission of the Church: Some Notes on
the New Normal
Iman Jaya Zandroto
Translation in the Twenty-First Century: Who Needs Scripture?
Michel Kenmogne
Mission for the Ages: How Christian Widows Are Shaping the
Future of Christian Missions in Northern Nigeria
Sung Bauta
Racism Awareness in Mission: Touchstone or Cultural Blind Spot?
Kirsteen Kim
Religious Freedom: Freedom of Conversion or Freedom from
Conversion?
Aruthuckal Varughese John
Christianity in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Emily DeWitt
The Synod on Young People, a Laboratory of Synodality
Nathalie Becquart
Mission Rediscovered: Transforming Discipleship;
A Commentary on the Arusha Call to Discipleship
Stephen Bevans
July 2021, Vol. 49.3 (Subscription access)
Jesus, Friend of Sinners: A Three-Party Kerygmatic Model of Mission
John S Shorack
Biblical Theology for Oral-Preference Communities
Andrew Buchanan
“A place Without Peace is No Place At All”: Violence, Fear, and the Paz do Senhor in Mozambique
Alan Byron Howell and Robert Andrew Montgomery
Healing from Shame: Possible and Desirable?
Andrea Campanale
Immigrant Believers From Muslim Backgrounds and Factors That Facilitate a Positive Christian Identity
Alan Totire
Does God Care About Fashion?
Dwi Maria Handayani
2021, Vol. 11.2 (Subscription access)
Introduction: Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies for World Christianity
Afe Adogame, Raimundo C. Barreto and Richard Fox Young
Why Reflexive Ethnography Matters to the Study of World Christianity
James Spickard
“Studying Up” in World Christianity: A Feminist Analysis of Caste and Settler Colonialism
Sonja Thomas
The Visible and Less-visible World: Social Ethnography in the Study of World Christianity
Anderson H. M. Jeremiah
World Christianity: Toward a Visual Turn
Henrietta Nyamnjoh
A Sound Ethnography
Pauline Elaine Muir
Surveying Taiwanese Christianity: The Taiwan Christianity Surveys in Conversation with World Christianity
Jonathan Seitz
Black Identities, Contemporary Literature, and Afro-diasporic Traditions
Felipe Fanuel Xavier Rodrigues
April 2021, Vol. 38.2 (Subscription access)
John Wesley, Compassionate Entrepreneur: A Wesleyan View of Business and Entrepreneurship
W. Jay Moon, Banseok Cho and Nickolas Bettis
Apocalypse, Authority, and Allegiance: Interpreting Symbols and Revelation in Mozambique
Alan Howell and Garrett Best
Ethical Theories and Approaches to Immigration in the United States: A Focus on Undocumented Immigrants
Alex Sackey-Ansah
The Crucifixion in the Qur’an: Answering Muslim’s Claims Regarding the Death of Jesus Christ
Sherene Nicholas Khouri
“The Migrated Others”: Mission as Practicing Compassionate Presence
Maraike Joanna Belle Bangun
July 2021, Vol. 38.3 (Subscription access)
Majority World Theologies
Allen Yeh
Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership
Kenneth Ross
Polycentric mission leadership: Toward a New Theoretical model
Joseph W. Handley, Jr
Navigating Leadership Challenges in a Polycentric World
Mary T. Lederleitner
A Case Study: A Journey of Leading in Polycentric Theory and Practice in Mission
Kirk Franklin
"Innovation in Churches"
Fall 2021, Vol. 13.2 (Subscription Access)
Innovation in Churches: A Theoretical Framework
David R. Dunaetz
Introduction to Special Section: Innovations in Churches During the COVID-19 Pandemic
David R. Dunaetz
The Quarantine Olympics of Cultivate Church in Athens, Alabama
Joel Franks
Storytelling the Gospel in Hungary: Zooming in on an Ancient Mode of Communication
Keith Sellers
Digital Monastic Communities at Sumter Chapel, Americus, Georgia
Drew Anderson
Making Online Children’s Ministry Interactive in Wheaton, Illinois
Eric Norregaard and Ping Ng
Quick Responses to Community Needs in Two Churches During the Pandemic
Brad Ransom and Edward E. Moody
Innovations in a Nursing Home Ministry
H. L. Ward Jr.
Identifying Current Gaps in Church Planting Movements Research: Integrating First- and Second-Order Perspectives
Warrick Farah
Sharing Jesus with Muslims: A Survey of Church Leaders in Africa
Akimana Canisius and Gordon S. Bonham
Innovativeness and Church Commitment: What Innovations Were Most Important During the Pandemic?
Anna Covarrubias, David R. Dunaetz, and Wendi Dykes McGehee
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