I decided to embrace a bit of curiosity and figure out what posts of mine were the most popular (best?) for each year this website has been in existence. It just hit 15 years. In terms of calendar years, then, I have posts from 2010 to 2025 2025Inculturation, Enculturation, Acculturation, and Morehttps://munsonmissions.org/2025/02/06/inculturation-enculturation-and-acculturation/2024Sermon: “Every Christian is …
Tag: Missiology
Evangelical Missiological Society (Southeast) Conference
I attended the EMS (Southeast) Conference on April 5, 2025 at North Greenville University. I have never attended a missiology conference before--- in fact, I don't go to mission conferences all that often. I hoped this would be a good and new experience for me. Truthfully, it was a good experience. I am not sure …
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Missiology as an Academic Field of Study?
Missiology is a rather young field of study and there has been a question of whether it should be considered an academic study. And if it is an academic study, how should it relate to other academic disciplines. I get it. If one thinks about it, Missions sounds like a less than a real topic--- …
The Boundaries of Missiology
I periodically supervise seminarians in theses or dissertations. Usually, their papers are in missions (although sometimes I oversee other types of papers). A couple of the papers I oversaw in missions pushed the limits of what is considered to be missiological at our seminary. One had to do with process of contextualization of preaching for …
End of the Year Thoughts
2013 has come to an end. I am just going to throw out some fairly random items to close out the year. I. The following shows the top posts over 2013. I am not sure what to make of them. "St. Boniface and the Peregrini" seemed to be caught up in some search engines for …
On the Theme “Walking With”: a Missions Theology. Part 1
This is not fully thought out. I am thinking this through as I write. I feel that "Walking With" is a phrase that may serve as a unifying theme for a Missions Theology. The expression "Walking With" has a number of implications: 1. Relationship. "Walking With" implies some form of mutual relationship. A stalker may …
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Personal Reflections on Educating Myself in Missions
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless s/he is a very exceptional teacher. Yet the habit of passive …
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Is Our Missiology “Un-Biblical”?
This sounds like a fairly combative or confrontational question. However, it has been asked on numerous occasions. Historically, there was the Anti-missions movement in the 1900s, particularly among Baptists and Campbellites. This movement felt that no social entity outside the local church is ordained by God to carry out His work. I see no evidence …
Honest Reflections on Balancing Academic Missiology, with the Practice of Christian Missions
One of my favorite books is "The Gospel Blimp and Other Modern Parables". It is by Joseph Bayly and has several great stories that challenge our notion of our faith. One of these stories is Ceiling Zero. In this story some people can fly (without aircraft and without balloons). But as the story goes on, …