By: Rev Jacob Bolton on September 13, 2018
A few years ago, the church I currently serve took a trip to Scotland. We traveled to Iona and the Highlands, and also took in the sights in Edinburgh and Saint Andrews. While touring the lovely city of Glasgow, we stumbled upon the stunning Doulton Fountain. This fountain, located on Glasgow Green, features four distinct…
By: Chris Pritchett on September 13, 2018
How many times in your life have you seen a simple new invention that went viral and said, “Why didn’t I think of that?” The figit spinner—a stupid toy for people who do not know how to process their anxiety, which is a growing population in the States as technology continues to speed up the…
By: Jenn Burnett on September 13, 2018
Civil society depends in part upon the existence of a system of justice which ensures the behaviour of individuals is within the parameters of agreed upon values. These values are usually translated into laws with further regulations granting a governing body the power of enforcement. In a democratic system, the hope is that the elected…
By: Dave Watermulder on September 13, 2018
I won’t lie. I’m a sucker for this kind of book. Although the author Tina Seelig may have other “entrepreneurs” in mind, her book Insight Out: Get Ideas out of Your Head and Into the Worldreally can apply to a wide variety of people, myself included! She invites her readers to expand their scope by…
By: Rhonda Davis on September 13, 2018
First of all, I am embarrassed to reveal that this reading has been the totality of my encounter with the history and culture of Hong Kong. After this reading, I feel I have a greater understanding of why this advance is so important. I have used the reading of A Modern History of Hong Kong…
By: Karen Rouggly on September 13, 2018
I love to make an entrance. Having a background in theatre, there are few things that excite me more than the first time you walk onto the stage for the first time in a role. There is a rush of adrenaline unlike any other. You take a breath, say a prayer that you will remember…
By: Jennifer Williamson on September 13, 2018
As a missionary, one of the questions I frequently get asked is, “How did God call you to France?” Everyone loves a good “call” story. Indeed, most missionaries can point to a moment when they sensed either a pull towards a particular people group or an inclination towards a particular type of ministry. Whether through…
By: Sean Dean on September 13, 2018
Creating community is difficult. It becomes more difficult when you have people from opposing view points or with different end goals. That is the predicament Hong Kong found itself in for decades. There were the native Chinese people who came to Hong Kong for a living but were still committed to their communities on the…
By: Digby Wilkinson on September 13, 2018
The evolution of the British empire over several centuries was one of ‘divide and rule’. The early expansion of the 15th–18th centuries was a simple exercise in trade exploitation under the thin veil of financially backed ‘exploration’.[1] However, that exploration often confronted two realities: extraordinary economic opportunity alongside non-compliant populations. For the most part, the…
By: Wallace Kamau on September 12, 2018
Reading the account of Jackie Pullinger about Her ministry in Hong Kong was a refreshing reminder that we cannot be effective in ministry without the help of The Holy Spirit. It brought to mind my encounter in ministry as a young believer when I was assigned the responsibility to preach to middle school children in…
By: John Muhanji on September 10, 2018
Reading the book “Chasing the Dragon “has opened a lot of insights that I thought I would ever get from such a book. At first, I never took this book seriously just by its title, and I was questioning myself why choose such a book for the course. The word dragon is always identified…
By: Mike on September 9, 2018
The Theology of Leadership Journal’s purpose is to advance Christian leadership by giving it some theological space to discuss, debate, and perhaps embrace the differences that make the difference for incarnational leadership. Since the Theology of Leadership Journal (TLJ) first published in 2018 there were few scholarly reviews found on their material. Nevertheless, the TLJ…
By: Nancy VanderRoest on September 8, 2018
I found Pullinger’s book to be both fascinating and heart-wrenching. The author presented a story of intrigue, passion, and heroism in a nonfiction book detailing a portion of her life. This book is a true story about the author’s journey through a dark kingdom and the beautiful touch of God that she brought to prostitutes,…
By: Jay Forseth on September 7, 2018
Adler [1] taught us how to read a book, so in my “reading” it was obvious to me the Editorial Team of Theology of Leadership Journal [2] was strongly Dutch. Names like Huizing, Hamstra and Schuringa sound like families of my Dutch high school in Denver, Colorado. Nothing against the Dutch, especially since I am 50%…
By: Shermika Harvey on September 7, 2018
CALLED TO STEP OUT When people know who they are and what they were called to do in life, it is often hard to remain still. In the early 1900’s, reaching the lost became a major priority because they felt the imminent return of Christ upon them. Many ministers and missionaries of the gospel embarked…
By: Kyle Chalko on September 6, 2018
And we are back at it again! The Theology of Leadership Journal was a surprising find on our reading list. I did not expect to be reading a brand new leadership journal. But this publication provided a refreshingly eclectic line-up of international leaders, which is I suspect, one of the contributing factors. It was…
By: Greg on September 6, 2018
A black Jesus is closer to the truth than many are comfortable with. A middle eastern man that has spent many hours in the sun working wood and then walking from town to town would indeed be dark skinned. Viewing Jesus as someone that is both not like us and like us is the paradox…
By: Mary Mims on September 6, 2018
The Ghetto, the hood, the projects, and slums, are all names of places that conjure up images of darkness that nobody chooses to go, and certainly not to go and live in by choice. I did not grow up in the ghetto, but I grew up close enough to it that I knew the trappings…
By: Shawn Hart on September 6, 2018
The Path to Christian Leadership…through the eyes of many I am truly hopeful that this first assignment of our second year on the road to our Doctorate in Global Evangelism is somehow going to be indicative of the path before us; after all, if we as scholars of Evangelism and Theology cannot learn how to…
By: Jason Turbeville on September 6, 2018
Throughout history leadership has rested in the hands of power, or as Debby Thomas states in her work Jesus’ Cross-Cultural Model of ‘Leader As Servant” In Luke 22:24-30, in a patronal system of leadership. [1] The idea of servant leadership is a foreign one to society in general. The strong have the power, those in power take…
