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Wrestling With Onesimus 6: Conclusion

I’ve spent a while looking at Onesimus excellent post entitled:  When Missions Becomes Toxic; or, Um, They Don’t Need Us Anymore and now it is time to look at the conclusion. The bottom line is that, if we Westerners don’t get out of the way, the churches of Africa and Asia and Latin America will remain […]

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Africa Mission

Wrestling with Onesimus: Maturity

This is my penulitmate post interacting with When Missions Becomes Toxic; or, Um, They Don’t Need Us Anymore from Onesimus. Thirdly, it is long past time for local Christians to take responsibility for their own churches and training and programs.  This is happening in some places, like India for example, where for years missionaries were forbidden by […]

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Mission

Wrestling With Onesimus 4: Missions

This is the fourth in my series looking at a post from Onesimus:  When Missions Becomes Toxic; or, Um, They Don’t Need Us Anymore. In this one we are looking at the second of his reasons for suggesting that Western missionary work in Africa should draw to a halt. Secondly, this sort of dynamic works the […]

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Africa

Wrestling With Onesimus 3: Dependency

This is the next instalment of my long series interacting with Onesimus’ post  When Missions Becomes Toxic; or, Um, They Don’t Need Us Anymore. Onesimus gives three reasons why he believes that it is time to draw Western missionary involvement in Africa to a close. This post looks at the first of these and starts off with a […]

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Mission

Wrestling With Onesimus 2: Imports

This is the next post in my series trying to get to grips with Onesimus post: When Missions Becomes Toxic; or, Um, They Don’t Need Us Anymore. It is quite obvious, that Onesimus has some serious reservations about the impact of the Western mission movement: Now that I’ve been here (on the ‘field’) for a while, […]

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Mission

Onesimus Cheats and Then Puts the Boot In

I find it increasingly difficult to come up with anything new to write on this blog and I’m often tempted to recycle a post from the past. Sometimes, I write something that seems new and fresh, only to find that I had posted something almost exactly the same in 2006. Anyway, Onesimus (who was my […]

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Bible and Mission Links 23

Resources One of the most useful sites relating to the Bible and Mission is Rob Bradshaw’s Biblicalstudies.org.uk, where a massive amount of biblical and theological material is available to download. Rob has put a vast amount of time and energy into gathering together this archive and it is well worth taking some time to peruse it. The […]

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Bible Translation I haven’t a clue why a piece entitled Issues of Race and Gender in Bible Translation: Interfacing with Spirituality, should  turn up on a hairdressing blog! This is a challenging paper that not all readers of Kouya Chronicle will find comfortable, but it’s good to be stretched from time to time (and, who […]

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I’ve not been blogging very much over the past few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped other people writing lots of good stuff. Here is a bit of a catch up! Bible Translation As I mentioned yesterday, the World Evangelical Alliance will be taking a long hard look at some of Wycliffe and SIL’s approach to […]

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Apologetics Last time round, I pointed to a post on apologetics by Simon Cozens; Mark has picked up on Simon’s theme and fleshed it out a bit further. This is an important dialogue and it would be good to see more people entering in to it. It would be especially good to see a response […]