Culture Practicing Resurrection, or The Witness of a Small Plate of Vegetables Ashley Woodiwiss | 3 min read Practicing the resurrection? Lord, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief. A snapshot: Some years back, a former student of mine, who was then working in the State Department, sent a photo to me. It was a black and white, of a priest with arms opened wide, his chasuble (why do I see it in my... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations From Efficacy to Fidelity: An Interview with Tyler Wigg-Stevenson Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 12 min read Tyler Wigg-Stevenson talks with TWI's Missio about his book, The World is Not Ours to Save; the future of the Two Futures Project, and his assessment of nuclear politics today; and on the concept of vocation: "The New Testament asks of us . . . how are you what you are?" Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation To Know the World, and Still Love the World Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Given what I do, most of the time my conversations are with people who have very honest questions, and they want very honest answers. Yesterday I had lunch with someone who has just returned from the Middle East. Since I have known him, a recent college graduate working in his first job, he has had... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations An Appeal for Cultural Humility Jody Wiley Fernando | 6 min read In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility. Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations 9/11 and the Ruins of Memory Adam Joyce | 4 min read It is difficult to forget 9/11. I was in 10th grade at a college prep school in the D.C. area. During my second period sex education class it was announced that something was wrong . . . something had happened. Class stopped and everyone assembled in the gymnasium for an announcement. There was lots of... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture “God, give Egypt success”: Praying Prayers with A Sense of Belonging in Egypt Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 3 min read Missio’s Tuesday “global” edition has had its eyes on Jayson Casper’s blog, A Sense of Belonging, for quite some time. Residing in Cairo, Egypt with his wife and young daughters, Jayson is a writer for the Arab West Report, an electronic journal which translates summaries of the Egyptian press, adding analysis, background research, and interviews — all... Continue Reading
