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"Call us, we’re white."
Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once said, “Sports doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” When it comes it comes to seeing...
Aug 6, 2024


Learning Together
In my Māori cultural environment, visitors are typically embraced and highly regarded as a source of new knowledge. The initial...
Jul 31, 2024


The Colonization of the Mission
It was not only that early Protestant missionaries began catching a ride with commercial shipping operations like the British East India...
Jul 17, 2024


Copowering Relationships in Uganda and Beyond
In Uganda, we are fortunate that our culture often helps us prioritize relational effectiveness over other kinds of effectiveness. But,...
Jun 5, 2024


Dancing with the Elephant: True Partnership in Short-Term Missions
In 2001, I started teaching at Wheaton College, a Christian liberal arts school outside Chicago. I would often start my Introduction to...
May 9, 2023


Teachability in Short-Term Missions: Learning from what does and doesn’t work
Bonita Broadnax and Brian Fikkert, with Emily Carminati There’s something really strange about how the western church does short-term...
Jan 18, 2023


Stop Calling it a “Short-Term Missions”
by Craig Greenfield Imagine if I were to write this letter to my local dentist: Dear Sir, I’d like to come and be a dentist for two...
Jan 13, 2023


Choosing Humility: Working together for respectful short-term missions
by Danilo Cyruis, Clelie Cyrius, Stephanie Robinson, and David Sanon, with Andrea Sielaff In the story of missions, who are the central...
Dec 22, 2022


Mutuality in Missions: A relational approach to short-term trips
by Robert Katende with Lisa San Martin The ways that Western churches do short-term missions are often criticized, and for good reasons....
Dec 16, 2022
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