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Trade Languages - Good Idea or Bad?
Is learning a new language a requirement for a missionary?
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Ted Esler
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WEIRD Missiology
Overlap and challenges to contemporary approaches to mission
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Ted Esler
6
Most Important 2024 Global Missions Stories
I take a stab at identifying stories with a connection to discipling the nations.
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Ted Esler
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Set an Empty Place at Christmas
Good night, John-Boy
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Ted Esler
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Missions as Problem Solving
A tension we should embrace
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Ted Esler
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Seeing Micromissions
The bulk of missions agencies are, like churches in the US and Canada, small
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Ted Esler
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Is the Missio Dei framework on its way out?
Conversations with Global South leaders is making me think so
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Ted Esler
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Out of the Ashes
Could better days be ahead for US Evangelicalism?
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Ted Esler
Missionary Attrition
Why is it so hard to get a good idea of what attrition really is?
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Ted Esler
Odds and Ends
A smattering of thoughts on the current political moment
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Ted Esler
The Cone of Uncertainty
John Stott or Billy Graham? Can't we have both?
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Ted Esler
Lausanne Observations
Greetings from a cafe at the “Convesia” hall where Lausanne 2024 is happening.
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Ted Esler
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Seedless Grapes
Paradigms that keep us infertile
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Ted Esler
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Orality Part 2: When strategy needs to change
I interview Don Barger, Director of Innovation for the IMB
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Ted Esler
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