Daily writing promptWhy do you blog?View all responses The initial reason for blogging was my desire to have a diary of a sort for my own thoughts. I had tried doing this on paper, but I found it would tend to fizzle out. I found that having a potential audience not only drove me to …
Month: August 2024
“Do Not Be Overly Righteous”— A Reflection
Quote from Philip Yancey As I think about Individual Christians I know, I see some people made incomparably better by their faith, and some made measurably worse. For every gracious, kind-spirited, forgiving Christian, I can point to a proud, mean-spirited, judgmental one. In my own experience, those who strive the hardest and believe the more …
What Four Characteristics of Missions Would I Want to Share If People Actually Read What I Write?
The title above is not some sort of passive-aggressive complaint about the number of "clicks" on my website. Actually, it is very much the opposite. Although my views here are teeny compared to what so many get on Youtube, X, Tiktok, or whatever, I have been pretty excited by my dozens of views per day …
Three Phases of Christian Missions (from one perspective at least)
I was listening to Darrell Whiteman (missiologist/anthropologist) on the Missiology Podcast. He was talking about how the average time a missionary (he prefers the term "cross-cultural witness") is 7 years... and yet he believes that it takes around 10 years to truly be effective. That can be a problem. For me and my wife, I …
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Jesus Christ as Internationalizer of the Faith (Part 2)
This is unsurprisingly a continuation of PART ONE. And much like Part One, it is tied to an article I recently wrote that can be seen by CLICKING ON THE ARTICLE. Relating to this topic, here is a quote from that article: Jesus of Nazareth established the church completely embedded in Judeanculture—Judean in membership, language, …
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Jesus Christ as Internationalizer of the Faith (Part 1)
I recently wrote an article, Muddy Footprints, where I suggest that Jesus was not so much a contextualizer of the faith, but an internationalizer of the faith. You are welcome, even encouraged to read that article, but I want to explore this a bit further. Contextualization as a term has been around since the 1970s …
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Some Ambivalent Issues Regarding Independent Versus Agency Missionaries (Part 2)
This is the second part on this topic. If you want to read the first part first, please CLICK HERE. Let's continue with a couple of more ambivalent issues as it pertains to independent versus agency missionaries. Ambivalent Issue #2. Support. I have already talked about support a fair bit and don’t want to repeat …
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Some Ambivalent Issues Regarding Independent Versus Agency Missionaries (Part 1)
As I have mentioned before, my wife and I had looked to go into missions under a regular mission agency. We were going through the process. We got slowed down because I was chubby. (Considering how much thinner I looked back then, I do wonder how realistic their “chubby designation” was.) I was told, by …
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Article on Localization of Theology
I wrote an article on the localization of theology for the Philippine Journal of Religious Studies (2024 edition). 07 Muddy FootprintsDownload
Thinking About Hans Frei’s Five Types of Theology
I was reading an article (chapter) by Kang-San Tan, "Hans Frei's Typology of Theology for Religious Encounters in Asian Contexts." It is in the book, Asian Christian Theology: Evangelical Perspectives, edited by Timoteo Gener and Stephen Pardue. As I was reading the five types of theology, it occurred to me that it sort of fit …
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