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2 months ago

Africa Opinion

Of rogue preachers and misleading theologies: Is it time to regulate the Church?

By David Tarus

It reads like a horror story, and most of it is quite unbelievable that it can, let alone that it did, happen. The story of Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of the Good News International Church is a tragic event in Kenya’s recent history.
2 months ago

Latin America Opinion Family & Children

Brazil’s new National Education Plan is a real threat for parental rights

By Julio Pohl and Alexandre Magno Fernandes Moreira

Estimates show that parents of over 70,000 children in Brazil have chosen to homeschool their children—a right that is protected and enshrined in international law. While the decision whether or not to homeschool should be left to the child’s parents, in Brazil, that is no longer the case.
3 months ago

Middle East Opinion

I have seen the raw footage of the October 7 attack - this is what I pray for

By Opinion Contributor

I recently attended a screening of raw footage of the October 7th, 2023, attacks in Israel. It was a spontaneous decision – the queue to get in was long, and I quietly prayed that if I got in, God would help me use it to potentially contribute a meaningful voice to the highly polarized and emotionally charged global debates – including among Christians – on what could possibly bring an end to the war and suffering in the Holy Land.
3 months ago

Europe Opinion

How Long, O Lord?

By Jeff Fountain

Few of us imagined that the Ukrainian resistance would last long against the feared might of the Russian army. Memories were stirred of the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 when the vastly outnumbered Dutch army resisted for four days before surrendering on May 14, immediately after Hitler’s ruthless blitzkrieg destroyed the historic heart of Rotterdam.
3 months ago

Asia Opinion

Pain of a different sort: unintended side-effects of short-term medical missions

By Jean Johnson

During my sixteen years as a missionary in Cambodia, I participated in a couple of short-term medical clinics and observed many. I would be the first to say that seeing a person in pain who is made well by the medicine and care I bring is fulfilling. And if that is all I am after, then it is also praiseworthy.
3 months ago

Europe Opinion

The sledgehammer of truth

By Jeff Fountain

While praying for Ukraine this week in a zoom connection with YWAM colleagues, I remembered a story once told by the late Argentinian-born evangelist Luis Palau.
3 months ago

Oceania Opinion

Nil by force: a word on militaristic tropes in missions

By Jay Mātenga

I think missions influencers resort to militaristic tropes because, when it comes to the sharing of our faith, whether local or cross-cultural, we have a motivational problem. To get more believers ‘committed’ to evangelism, ministry, and missions, influencers too easily twist Scripture to promote a militant activism, casting the ‘great unwashed’, ‘pagan’, or ‘heathen’ as ignorant slaves of our enemy (sin, the powers of darkness, and the Devil) needing to be rescued (by force, if necessary, e.g.
3 months ago

Africa Opinion

Language: a barrier or a bridge to people flourishing

By Michel Kenmogne

Irrespective of its status or prestige, each language represents somebody’s mother tongue. By this, I mean the first language through which they have been exposed to the world. It informs their sense of identity and provides them with the cultural categories by which they view the world and engage in it.
3 months ago

Europe Opinion

Bound together

By Jeff Fountain

A giant three-metre-high replica of an ordinary torsion spring clothespeg arrested my wife and me while walking through a sculpture garden in New Zealand some time ago.
3 months ago

Africa Opinion

Africa’s election year 2024: Twenty principles and truths for Christian political engagement

By Craig Bailie

Africa is a deeply religious continent. So how African individuals and communities understand and express their religions and protect their religious spaces and doctrines from misuse or abuse has implications for wider African society, including the spheres of politics and civil governance. These significantly affect human well-being across the continent.
4 months ago

Asia Opinion

Sinicization: Culture or Politics?

By Brent Fulton

In his incisive Christianity Today article titled “Xi Jinping Is Not Trying to Make Christianity More Chinese,” Purdue University professor Fenggang Yang draws a distinction between Sinicization, or the cultural adaptation of religion to Chinese culture, and what he calls “Chinafication,” a more literal translation of the Chinese term Zhongguo hua (中国化) used in the current “Sinicization of religion” campaign.

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Of rogue preachers and misleading theologies: Is it time to regulate the Church?

Brazil’s new National Education Plan is a real threat for parental rights

I have seen the raw footage of the October 7 attack - this is what I pray for

How Long, O Lord?

Pain of a different sort: unintended side-effects of short-term medical missions

The sledgehammer of truth

Nil by force: a word on militaristic tropes in missions

Language: a barrier or a bridge to people flourishing

Bound together

Africa’s election year 2024: Twenty principles and truths for Christian political engagement

Sinicization: Culture or Politics?

Most Popular

Demolition of homes, churches leaves hundreds of Liberian refugees in limbo in Ghana

‘Europe Day’ on May 9 commemorates the beginnings of the EU, but few people know its Christian roots

Jesus Film in sign language reaches Deaf community, one of the least reached people groups

Muslims attack Catholic students with knives in Indonesia

Dominican evangelicals support pro-life candidates proposed by leaked Catholic list

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