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Why Prioritize Language and Culture Acquisition?
As a language learner, I am typically quite reserved. I don’t enjoy conversing in a new language unless I am 100% sure that the sentence about to...
The Deconversion Stories That Go Unnoticed
Recently there has been a spate of “deconversion” stories from high-profile individuals who have walked away from the Christian faith. The YouTube...
Some Motivations for World Evangelism
As we prepare for our next class of students to arrive on campus in just one week, one of the things we look forward to is hearing their...
African Missionary Candidates and William Chalmers Burns
This Radius Report doesn’t come from my normal desk in San Diego but from Lusaka Zambia. A group of us from Radius are visiting 5 seminaries/Bible...
Will Sending Agencies Be Able to Change?
It’s a very relevant question and one that may determine the viability and relevance for many sending agencies in the coming years. Some of the...
Responding to God
Responding to the Lord’s call: My journey in getting to Radius was quite unique and begins way back in 2012. That December, I went to the Urbana...
Why Teammates Matter in Missions
One of the areas of missions that gets little press but is of great importance is teammates. Good teammates are a great grace to church planting...
The Mandate to Train and Send Missionaries Well: A Lead Pastor’s Perspective
Being in full-time ministry for nearly 37 years, with the past 12 years as a lead pastor, I have had a lot of time to contemplate missions within...
The Way She Suffered: Reflecting on the life of Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot once asked, “Would you like to have the story of Daniel without the lions’ den? … Would you like to have the story of Joseph...
Four Fields: A Revised Version of DMM
As more and more folks have discovered the biblically suspect underbelly of Disciple Making Movements, I have begun to frequently hear, “Oh, we...
