“If you can fly a plane in Papua New Guinea (PNG), you can do it anywhere,” a pilot once told me. That is an apt description of this mountainous South Pacific land. Roads are few. To reach most communities, one must fly, using their 650 landing strips (of which 20 can handle jets) in a land of only 10 million people. PNG is a complex and fascinating country, as I came … [Read more...] about Papua New Guinea: An intriguing land where the gospel has taken root
What was the Future of the Gospel Forum about?
I never expected that at a global conference called the Future of the Gospel Forum I would be captivated by a Malaysian who had gone to England early in his life to earn a PhD in micro-biochemistry and ended up running a global fund that seeks to fight poverty. Amidst about 250 church leaders, mission organizational representatives and specialists in missiology from 61 … [Read more...] about What was the Future of the Gospel Forum about?
Remembering Tim Keller
There are occasions when a person’s peculiar skills and character add something so remarkable to the world around them that when news comes of their passing, our attention is seized by this loss. Such is the case with pastor and Christian apologist Tim Keller, who died of pancreatic cancer on May 19 at age 72. Keller, well-educated and obviously gifted in making sense of … [Read more...] about Remembering Tim Keller
A first century story for the 21st
Yassir Eric’s story highlights one of the most important and exciting movements in the global Christian church today. Christians all over the world should be celebrating and supporting the acts of bold 21st-century apostles such as Yassir. At age 19, Yassir Eric, living in Sudan, was a radicalized Muslim. He had memorized much of the Quran and was militant in his hatred of … [Read more...] about A first century story for the 21st