Over the last forty years Maryknoll Father Bob McCahill has sent letters home from Bangladesh each Christmas. This moving collection of his letters recounts stories of his unique brand of mission, ser
Women have advanced God's mission throughout history, but often face particular obstacles in ministry. Mission researcher Mary Lederleitner interviewed respected women in mission leadership from acros
Here is the riveting and troubling story of seven U.S. martyrs in Central America who laid down their lives for their neighbors: Father Stanley Rother, Brother James Miller, Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conver
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper''s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? -Mother Teresa Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was beloved the world
The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th to the 21st century. Through detailed case studies the c
A survey of the latest scholarship on Catholic missions between the 16th and 18th centuries, this collection of fourteen essays offers a global view of the organization, finances, personnel, and histo
The essays in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offer a critical reflection on the often more competitive than cordial relationships between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries in n
Explores how the church has engaged—and should engage—the American contextWhat might faithful and meaningful Christian witness look like within our changing contemporary American context?A
Focuses exclusively on Evangelii Gaudium as interpreted from a variety of interdisciplinary and denominational perspectives, with a sharper focus on the ecclesiological as well as the ecumenical poten
This book articulates various evangelical views regarding the church's mission and provides a healthy, vigorous, and gracious debate on this controversial topic. In a helpful Counterpoints format, thi
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qajar Persia, c.1760–c.1870 recalls two long neglected European and North American missionary ventures in the Caucasus and Imperial Persia. It investi
In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chi
