The church’s corporate life is its most profound witness of the Gospel. From Trevin Wax: The Great Commission was given to a community. Western readers have tended to read the Great Commission passages (especially Luke 24 and Matthew 28) in light of the autonomous individual. We interpret the commissioning scenes as tasks assigned to individual …
March 2013 Australian Presbyterian World Mission Partnership Newsletter online edition available for download here.
Rob Duncanson reflects on an East Timorese cultural tradition about who is allowed to retell a story, and makes some observations about the story God has given all of us to share. Go and read it at Bondia Timor Leste. Afterall, it’s Rob’s story.
The suicide of a nurse who was one of the victims of a prank call to a London hospital by Sydney radio presenters has been covered in overwhelming depth in other places. Noting the difference between a guilt/justice based culture (the West) and a shame/honour based culture (the East, sub-continent and Africa), it seems that …
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