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Books I Have Read: The Kingdom of God in Africa

“the most interesting lesson from the missionary outreach during the Western colonial era is what happened to Christianity when the missionaries weren’t looking, and after the colonizers withdrew.”

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Books I Have Read: The Lamentations of a Sinner

An interesting and encouraging book from an historically important author.

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Plague and the Rise of Christianity

Tertullian claimed: “It is our care of the helpless, our practice of loving kindness that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents. ‘Only look,’ they say, ‘look how they love one another!'”

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Books I Have Read: Dominion

I may read a better book this year, but with only three months left, it seems highly unlikely unless something really good crosses my desk. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind is readable, interesting, highly informative and it is important; whoever you are, you should read it.

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Do Not Use

Bible and Mission Links 35

Lots of interesting stuff, but not a lot of jokes.

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Where British Mission Agencies Work

A brief look at some statistics about the history and geography of British mission agencies (it’s more interesting than it sounds).

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Reviews

Books I Have Read: The Transformation of African Christianity

A rather good book, with a second half that deserves to be very widely read.

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Musing On Mission Themes

Advice to Missionaries

Old advice from a Pope to a missionary to the English, which is still very relevant today.

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Musing On Mission Themes

What’s Good In World Mission?

The church is growing faster than it ever has done before and the world mission force is more diverse than at any time in history. We should be encouraged by these things – but we can’t afford to be complacent.

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The Mission Movement: Historic Figures

They weren’t evangelicals and they weren’t missionaries, so how come they are examples of evangelical mission?