The Future(s) of Missions

This year, four world missionary conferences are celebrating the Edinburgh meeting’s centennial, but with distinctly different views of its legacy and future.

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Christianity Today’s Global Conversation series is part of the Lausanne movement’s run up to Capetown.

Recent articles on missions include:

The World’s Prayer Guide | The latest edition of ‘Operation World’ spotlights a shifting global church. (August 3, 2010)

A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique | Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty. (July 8, 2010)

Needed: More Monocultural Ministries | Why Christians shouldn’t try to fit every ethnic group into the same ministry mold. (July 7, 2010)

CT previously spotlighted health care, Africa, American Idol, Haiti, Robert Park, persecution, Supreme Court and crosses, international religious liberty advocates, and church violence.

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August

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Why Women Want Moore

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First Came the Bible

Halee Gray Scott

My Top 5 Movies in the Heat of Summer

Review

The Weapon Satan Can't Stand

Excerpt

Mere Churchianity

Michael Spencer

Saved by an Atheist

Wilson's Bookmarks

The Duct Tape Solution

Interview by David Neff

God's Word for Each Person—Worldwide

Todd Nettleton, Jonathan Brooks, and Gary Russell

A Jazz-Shaped Faith

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Urban Urgency

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Tears of a Journalist

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A Grace-filled Engagement

Books to Note

Relationship That Leads to Life

A Curious Saint

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

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The Lost Art of Commitment

Chuck Colson with Catherine Larson

The World's Prayer Guide

Interview by Stan Guthrie

My Top 5 Biographies of Theologians

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Let the Sea Resound

A Christianity Today Editorial

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Testing Property and Prisoner Protections

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

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Christian Journalists Detained, Court Rules on Pre-embryos, and Other News

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Passages

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Be Fruitful and Multiply?

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Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

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Jesus March in Brazil

Carlos Fernandes in Rio de Janeiro

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As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

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Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.

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Glory to God in the Highest Calling

Sandra Glahn and Seana Scott

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

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Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

Christian Gonzalez Ho

As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.

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The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer

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As Malibu Burns, Pepperdine Withstands the Fire

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My Favorite Books of 2024

Ashley Hales, CT’s editorial director for print, and Russell discuss this year’s reads.

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The Door Is Now Open to Churches in Nepal

Surendra Bajracharya

Seventeen years after the former Hindu kingdom became a secular state, Christians have a pathway to legal recognition.