Missio Dei

Cultural Awareness and the Multicultural Church

Dan Sheffield — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:24:57 +0000

In the 1980s a new church was initiated in the north-west Greater Toronto Area. It was developed as an essentially white, Anglo-European background congregation. Early on, however, people from other cultural backgrounds began to attend largely because of a perceived … Read the full article

The Un-Tweetable Story

Dr. Robert Shaughnessy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:31:15 +0000

“It was a dark and stormy night…” We hear these words and find ourselves intrigued. We want to know what happened on that “dark and stormy night” and so we read on and enter more fully into the story. In … Read the full article

Finding Our Way: Art, Faith and Mission

Brett David Potter — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:49:51 +0000

Whenever we drive in another city, my wife and I get lost. It could be downtown Chicago or Guelph, Ontario; regardless of where we start from, we will somehow become disoriented and diverge from our neatly printed directions. A street … Read the full article

The Cry of Lament

Dr. David Sherbino — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:06:27 +0000

We are well aware that life is not always filled with joy and happiness. We know pain and brokenness, alienation and confusion, doubt and despair, and at times the seeming absence of God. When we feel that God has abandoned … Read the full article

Engaging Islam and Muslims

Dr. James Beverley — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:31:36 +0000

[Editor’s note: Please continue to the end of this article for Prof. Beverley’s extensive list of books and web-sites on Islam.]

A proper evangelical engagement with Islam must be multifaceted in light of the scope of Islamic history, the vast … Read the full article