I don't do book reviews very often. Frankly, I usually read through or skim through books rather than deeply read a book. And I even more rarely read a book in the manner appropriate for critique. However, the author of "Principles of Leading Muslims to Christ" was one of my students, and I did work …
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I have a much smaller class of Dialogue with Asian Religions this semester. Just 2 students. But it has been fun. They have been practicing Interreligious Dialogue with a number of groups. They have attended prayer at a mosque, and worship service at Sikh Temple, and had visits at Hindu Temple, and Daoist "church." They …
It is good to support the good. Correct? So here are a few things to consider supporting. #1. Aurora College of Intercultural Studies. This school, in Maria Aurora, Aurora Province, Philippines, trains up young people for both intracultural and intercultural ministry. It is a small school but takes its training seriously in preparing students to …
One of my former students, Adesegun Hammed Olayiwola, recently published a book on Amazon: PRINCIPLES OF LEADING MUSLIMS TO CHRIST Effective Contextualization and Dialogue for Transformation and Effective Contextualization ... for Transformation and Discipleship As a Muslim Background Believer from Africa, he provides an important perspective. I will review it in a later post, but …
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Recently I finished my sixth book. As I looked them over, I realized that four of the books I did because I was teaching classes in which textbooks were not really available (or adequate) here in the Philippines. One book I wrote because I had to--- the book form of my doctoral dissertation. However, there …
I am teaching a class in pastoral care and counseling at seminary. I decided to roleplay a hospital visit. I had one student to roleplay having a back injury with uncertain prognosis. Then I roleplayed a rather poor pastoral visit. I am pretty good at poor pastoral visits--- I just have to do what comes …
My wife's family raised pigs. One year their sow had a litter of 13 piglets. The sow could feed 12 simultaneously. So, not surprisingly, it was the smallest one, the runt, who was left out. Without intervention the 13th pig would starve and die. But my wife's family did intervene, periodically the largest piglet would …
Religion has an important role in society. Emile Durkheim among others have recognized that one of the roles of religion in a society is to safeguard it. It provides the support and underpinnings of a culture's worldview. As such, it provides the norms for behavior as well as interpretation of experience. In a sense then …
I wrote on my personal blog on some of the soul-searching I am going through in my role in trying to write books and helping some people in Asia and Africa in writing books. You can find it at When a Hobby has Become a Job.
Going into Missions is often thought of as an act of letting go. One lets go of one's former job, one's home culture, and often many friends and even family. One might think that means that missionaries are good at letting go, but that is often not the case. In fact, the letting go in …