Tag: adaptation in missions

Maintaining Otherness. Why Do People Fail to Adapt to a New Culture?

On By missionmusingsIn Contextualization, cultural anthropologyLeave a comment

I want to focus on one reason for failing to adapt to a new culture, but before I do, I suppose I should list some other reasons first. #1. Unintentional Ethnocentrism. This is the belief that "Our Way is the Only Way." This may be unintentional because the person comes from a monocultural setting, perhaps, …

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Missions “Thinking Outside of the Box”

On By missionmusingsIn Christian Leadership, Mission Theology3 Comments

Having been in business, academics, and missions, I have heard this a lot: "We need to think outside of the box." (The word "of" is optional.) The expression sometimes seems profound, but sometimes it seems trite and annoying. Therefore, I really enjoyed an article by Dan Pallotta. I will copy the first two paragraphs from …

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