A section of my book "Dialogue in Diversity." The first very rough draft is basically complete and will be reviewed by my students in "Interreligious Dialogue class. According to Martin Buber: “The presupposition of genuine dialogue is not that the partners agree beforehand to relativize their own convictions, but that they accept each other as …
Month: October 2018
Quote on Missionary Flexibility
I have suggested that the three main characteristics of a good missionary are: Willingness (a volitional quality) Flexibility (a psychological quality) Resiliency (a spiritual quality) <You may feel that "spiritual" is the wrong word, but if one accepts the definition of spiritual as the intersection of power and meaning, a lack of resiliency means either …
A Leading Cause of Atheism? Not Allowing Dialogue and Disagreements | Jackson Wu
Please click on the link at the bottom of this post for an article from Jackson Wu that then links to the related article in Relevant Magazine. It is an interesting case study of a Christian who gradually moved to atheism. The seeming cause was a lack of openness in his church to dialogue and …
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Book Updates in Missions & Pastoral Care
I've been working on books again after being a bit.... lackadaisical. Here are the updates on the two books I am working on. (My other books can be found in My Books tab above. Dialogue in Diversity: Christians in Conversation with a Pluralistic World. ' I have been SLOWLY working on this for a few …
Fighting Within the Family
Just the other day, I was reading a blogpost about Christianity in the Philippines. It stated that Christian missions has been active in the Philippines for just over 100 years but only about 12% of Filipinos are Christians. I would not be difficult to question the statistics: Christianity and Christian missions arrived in the Philippines …
The Chicken that Laid the Golden Egg
This is my sermon from last Sunday. You may have heard this story before… or something close to it. In fact I hope you have, because I never really found out how the story ends. Once upon a time there was a poor farmer and wife. They struggled along, but had trouble feeding themselves. They …