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3 days ago by Jonathan Dodson

Okay, so maybe American missions work is driven by the same kind of pragmatism that characterizes so many American churches. Is that really such a big deal? Well, stop and consider the differences between planting pragmatically-driven churches in America versus planting them in most Majority World c ...

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13 days ago by Steve Addison Steve Addison

According to Phillip Jenkins, the particular shape of Christianity with which we are familiar is a radical departure from what was for well over a millennium the historical norm: another, earlier global Christianity once existed. For most of its history, Christianity was a tricontinental religion, w ...

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32 days ago by Hunter Baker

From Philip Jenkins at Foreign Policy: Ironically, after centuries of rebelling against religious authority, the coming of Islam is also reviving political issues most thought extinct in Europe, including debates about the limits of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to proselytiz ...

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66 days ago by rossblog

Guest post by Erik Tryggestad A Church of Christ building in San Pedro, Belize (photo by Erik Tryggestad) I had hoped to devote most of this post to “Global South,” the news series we’re planning to begin in the July issue of The Christian Chronicle. The series will have on-the-spot reports from aro ...

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67 days ago by Dan Walsh

From an historical perspective persecution both kills churches and spurs them onward. Think of the now non-existent church in Algeria and Tunisia and the growing church in China as examples of each phenomenon. According to Philip Jenkins, author of The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christia ...

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69 days ago by Terry

Text: Job 2 Main Idea: You and I need to receive both good and evil from the Lord. Introduction Probably one of the most prayed for requests in the American church is the request for healing. Some churches are looking for dramatic healing each week. Other feel it is a good thing to do just so one sh ...

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84 days ago by Bruce Ashford

Global Context: Europe, Islam, and Christianity By: Bruce Riley Ashford Entire forests have been chopped down in order to promulgate the literature that has been written on the religious crisis in Europe, including especially the secularization of Europeans and influx of Islamic immigrants. Bat Y’eo ...

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88 days ago by John

In The Lost History of Christianity, Philip Jenkins reveals aspects of the religion that are far from popular knowledge. If widely understood, this Christianity would show the televangelists in their limitations. Here are a few excerpts from the interview with Jenkins. The full Q & A can be read at ...

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94 days ago by Mike

“For most of its history, Christianity was a tricontinental religion, with powerful representation in Europe, Africa, and Asia, and this was true into the fourteenth century.” “Because of its location — close to the Roman frontier, but just far enough beyond it to avoid heavy-handed interference — M ...

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97 days ago by Bruce Ashford

Global Context Series: A New Christendom with New Faces By: Bruce Riley Ashford Philip Jenkins believes that we are living in the midst of a monumental moment in religious history, and he has written two books to make his case. The first, The Next Christendom, contains the meat of his argument while ...

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