Building on the work and legacy of Darrell L. Guder, Converting Witness: The Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium, explores key questions and new possibilities in missiology in light of the world Christian context. The conversation around missional theology and the missional church has examined the gap between theology and mission with the intent of fostering renewal within North American Christianity. But this can only fully occur in relation to the reality of world Christian...

Why should anyone believe in God in a world with so much pain?Why should I become a Christian when I find the public agenda of many Christians so offensive?I have been hurt by the church in the past. Why should I bother with it now?Most Christians have found themselves in conversations with nonbelieving friends and family where these kinds of questions have come up. In fact, most Christians have probably found themselves asking t...

Grapples conscientiously with biblical texts at the heart of the church's debate over same-sex relationshipsThis thought-provoking book by James Brownson develops a broad, cross-cultural sexual ethic from Scripture, locates current debates over homosexuality in that wider context, and explores why the Bible speaks the way it does about same-sex relationships.Fairly presenting both sides in this polarized debate — "traditional" and "revisionist" — Brownson conscientio...