Sarah Lunsford (Pickwick Publications, 2023) Most of what we do in missions can be categorized as our missiological methods. As important as our mission methods are, we usually look to the social sciences to guide us, as we seek to find effective and reproducible methods for sharing the gospel and planting churches cross-culturally. The lack …
Edited by Narry F. Santos and Xenia Ling-Yee Chan (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Crisis is an invitation to both prophetic evaluation and new imagination. In this volume, Canadian missiologists and practitioners consider the past and how the past might enable the church to move forward in Christian mission–in the academy, agency, assembly, and the agora. How …
Romerlito Macalinao (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Orality formed us. Orality forms us. Orality will forever form us. Orality is a central theme of our lives. In this fast-paced world, few Christian workers take the time to look back to learn and build on the lessons of the past. Wise Christian workers, however, do not forge ahead …
New and Old Horizons in the Orality Movement: Expanding the Firm Foundations Read More »
Chang Seop Kang (Pickwick Publications, 2022) Currently, about 6 percent of the eighty thousand Chinese college students in Korea are Christians, certainly no small number considering their future role within the Chinese Church. In this study, Chang Seop Kang seeks to find out the factors, process, and types concerning the conversion of thirty Chinese international …
Valerie A. Rance (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Trauma, from the fall of Adam and Eve forward impacts human lives in overpowering ways. A review of the lives of biblical personalities and missionaries reveals shared traumatic experiences. In addition to the stress of cultural adjustment, missionaries often live in contexts of violence, political unrest, economic instability, natural …
Banseok Cho (Pickwick Publications, 2021) This book explores the theme of the missional conversion of the church, namely how the church is transformed toward its missionary vocation, from a biblical-theological perspective. The purpose of this book is to find biblically grounded, theologically sound, and practically applicable principles helpful for the church which seeks to be …
Derek Brotherson (Pickwick Publications, 2021) As Christians seek to follow Paul’s example of becoming like all people in order to win them to Christ, a key question arises: How far is too far? Is there a point where appropriate contextualization becomes gospel-distorting syncretism? With the growing prominence of Insider Movements in the Muslim-majority world in …
Trevor Castor (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Narrative Identity is the product of seven years of research among Muslim immigrants living in America. This book will help you to understand the role that stories have in shaping how we see the world, ourselves, and others by exploring the process of identity formation for one of the most …
Hyo Seok Lim (Pickwick Publications, 2021) Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation. Many would agree that the vertical and horizontal dimensions of reconciliation should not be …
A Theological Assessment of Reconciliation for Missiology in the Korean Context Read More »
Hannah Kyong-Jin Cho (Pickwick Publications, 2020) In this timely book, Cho provides mission scholars, sending churches, and mission agencies with an understanding of Korean missionaries’ burnout recovery process. Her study of Korean missionary burnout recovery included thirty-nine research participants who had experienced burnout in missionary service and who subsequently recovered. Participants reported a variety of …
Understanding Burnout Recovery Among Native-Born Korean Missionaries Read More »
