Gordon Showell-Rogers

CDI International Director

Articles by Gordon Showell-Rogers

[Book review] Together, The Great Collaboration

The authors have discovered and put into practice a series of simple yet profound biblical principles about relationships, collaboration and networks. These principles are transferable across cultures and sectors. The book’s content focuses on their passion and vision for church planting. But it’s not a stretch to apply the lessons about collaborative networks into other areas of Christian service.

19 Jun, 2025 21:40 EDT
[Book review] Christian Worldview & Transformation: Spirituality, Reason & Social Order

Part of Regnum’s ‘Global Voices: Latin America’ series, it’s a tightly argued series of essays that examine the interplay between the long-accepted concept of ‘worldview’ and transformation. Its theological perspectives point out that ‘Jesus always lived on the edge of the empire,’ ‘The gospel concerns nothing less than all things (Col. 1/16-20) and the church’s mission concerns nothing less than all things.’

25 Aug, 2024 20:08 EDT
[Book review] Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror: Learning from stories of heartbreak and hope

‘Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror’ by Karen Springs is both a sobering introduction to life with deeply troubled children and a passionate appeal to provide permanent family solutions for orphans and vulnerable children.

2 Aug, 2024 07:08 EDT
[Book review] Let Us Draw Near - Biblical Foundations of Worship: 'should be required reading for the global Church'

In Ron Man’s words, ‘There is a biblical framework for our worship, but also much cultural flexibility,’ and ‘There is an unchanging message, but many ways to communicate and celebrate it.’ And the question for us all to consider is, ‘How to be biblically faithful and culturally relevant in our worship.’

12 Jul, 2024 08:07 EDT
Easter – the events that change everything

All religious festivals provide opportunities to think about God and eternity. Easter provides a particular opportunity to think about Jesus: who He is and what He has done.

29 Mar, 2024 10:03 EDT
[Book review] Covered Glory: The Face of Honor and Shame in the Muslim World

This disturbing book is extraordinarily inspiring: within all the painful stories (real stories, full of shame), there’s extraordinary life, hope and redemption.

22 Mar, 2024 11:03 EDT
[Book review] Divided: why we’re living in an age of walls

Believing in a Creator who made all people equal and in a Saviour who is building a church of every tribe and nation, then Christians should surely be taking the lead in addressing the divisions of our deeply polarised world.

15 Jan, 2024 19:01 EST
God chose to come into this world without status or power

As the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus approaches, friends and I have been thinking about Jesus’ words recorded in Mark 10:13-16. For years, I thought that ‘receiving the Kingdom of God like a little child’ referred to innocence – or to being trusting. Maybe it does include that. I, for one, feel I have a lot to learn about genuinely trusting God, in our deeply disturbed world. But someone recently pointed out to me that the main defining characteristic of children in first century Palestin

22 Dec, 2023 16:12 EST
[Book Review] God Is Not a White Man: and Other Revelations

McDonald has created an extraordinarily beautiful and illuminating tapestry from the Bible’s story intertwined with her life experience as a black British woman of Nigerian heritage. It’s a deeply personal book that is both a study of historical and contemporary racial realities and an exploration of how Christian theology has become very white.

12 Dec, 2023 06:12 EST