New Insight into the Cultural Benefits of Missions

In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver's main character is a missionary to Africa named Nathan Price. According to one review of the book, ...

A Book that Changed Russell Moore's Life

Southern Baptist pastor and leader Russell Moore recently highlighted one of his favorite books of all time—a series of essays by the southern novelist ...

The First North American Missionary—a Freed Slave

The first missionary from North America was George Liele, a former slave who left the American colonies for Jamaica in 1782 and began a ministry of preaching ...

Deepak Chopra in the U.S. and Christians in Nepal

Two recent news stories from the same day (February 3, 2016) offered a strange twist that has implications for world missions. Deepak Chopra, the Hindu ...

The Upside Down Shift in Global Missions

The landscape of global missions has undergone massive changes in the past few decades. Here are a few examples of the upside down, global shift in Christianity ...

Phillip Yancey Reflects on Missionary Work in South Korea

Phillip Yancey recently toured the Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery, built to honor 145 missionaries in South Korea. All of the missionaries died ...

The Most Persecuted People on the Planet

Most people in the West would be surprised by the answer to the question: who are the most persecuted people in the world? A British paper reported that ...

Statistics about the Growth of the Church around the World

In his book Witness Essentials, Dan Meyer lists some encouraging statistics about the growth of the church around the world:

• In 1900 Korea had no Protestant church. Today, there are over 7,000 churches in just the city of Seoul, South Korea.

Degrees of Persecution

In a recent article on the suffering church, FaithWorks listed the degrees of persecution one could face for practice of religious faith:

1. Disapproval ...

Concrete Church

It is of no avail to talk of the church in general, the church in the abstract, unless the concrete particular local church which the people attend can ...