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by Jay Gary, Dec 3, 2007 After 9/11 there was alot of talk about the threat of radical Islam, but recently, the subject in America has moved to the threat of right-wing Christianity. In this blog post, emergent church leader Brian McLaren addresses this threat, and talks about how his latest book reveals a growing […] 
by Richard Lotterhos, March 27, 2007 Effectiveness in Short-Term Missions depends on vital partnerships with in-country ministry leaders. Rich Lotterhos offers a case study of the U.S. Campus Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ from 1979 to 2004. He examines how international networking and partnership among Campus Ministry staff preceded and then sustained the development […] 
‘They drink like Southern Baptists… they talk like Catholics… they theologize like the Reformed… and they vote like Episcopalians,’ claims Scot McKnight in describing Emergent, a controversial and misunderstood movement among younger American or British Evangelicals. McKnight claims five streams define this new conversation: 1) provocative, 2) postmodern, 3) praxis-oriented, 4) post-evangelical and 5) political. […] by Christian Smith, PhD, Jan 1, 2007 The ad read, “current trends show that only 4 percent will be evangelical believers by the time they become adults….unless we act now, U.S. Christianity will be dead in ten years?” The only problem was, there was no statistical truth in the claim. Dr. Christian Smith asks, “Why […] by Jay Gary, PhD, Apr 22, 2006 This past January I taught an online course, LMSF 617, on faith and the future of humanity, through Regent University’s Strategic Foresight program. We wrestled with the question, What should be the unique contribution of Christian faith to the quest to be human? I just ran across this […] 
by Jay Gary, PhD, Apr 3, 2005 Have you ever felt that you were apart of two worlds, neither which talk to each other? That world might be two sets of inlaws or two sets of friends. The world of religion and the future are like that. Like two-ships that pass one another in the […] by RenĂ©e N. Hale, Jan 24, 2007 The face of Christianity and its mission to reach the lost world is changing rapidly as the 21st century unfolds. Globalization, new technologies, and the growing Christian church in the third world create missiological challenges for the near and far future (Escobar, 2003). Many missionaries are taking the […] by Howard A. Snyder & Daniel V. Aunyon, Apr 15, 1987 Remember Megatrends (1982) and Megatrends 2000 (1990) by pop futurist John Naisbitt? Well Howard Synder, first known for his work on Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wineskins, (1975), wrote a noteworthy book on Christian futures back in 1986, entitled: Foresight: 10 Major Trends that […] In September of 2005, ChristianFutures hosted Dr. Todd Johnson, co-editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia on campus at Regent University, for Foresight 2005–the third annual futures conference for Christian leaders. This essay by Johnson was circulated to participants beforehand. […] 
by Anne Marie MacDonnell, PhD, Jan 25, 2005 Sometimes, God directs our paths in ways that we may never even begin to anticipate. In fact, there are times when God’s calling does not make much sense to our limited human intellect at all. Yet, it is at that very moment when we are most mystified […] |
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