Author Hwa Yung explains the reasoning behind his new book, Leadership or Servanthood? Walking in the Steps of Jesus. This powerful work calls into question the Church's emphasis on leadership and leadership training.
Keith Fraser-Smith reviews The Missiology Behind the Story, a book that is full of optimism, reversing the long-held pessimism of dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. Indigenous ministries, leadership training and the growth in numbers of those coming to faith from non-Christian backgrounds is transforming a once bleak picture. Find out more about this timely book that provides a wealth of stimulating reading here.
Langham Publishing's senior editor, Isobel Stevenson shares about her experience in equipping writers and editors, this time through a workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2017. There are a lot of elements that come together to produce a valuable book that will impact theological study and bless the body of Christ. That's why, as well as Langham Publishing producing books for the Majority World, Langham Literature has other initiatives to foster excellent resources such as this training.
Not quite the Nobel Peace Prize, but a significant moment for Langham Scholar and newly published author with Langham Monographs, Rula Khoury Mansour. On 22nd June 2019, the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel presented her with an award for her years of studying the root causes of conflict in their churches and wider society, and seeking to build processes of reconciliation and peace building.
Langham Literature Director, Pieter Kwant reflects on the importance of coming alongside Majority World theological and preaching networks, publishers and authors to listen, encourage, and engage, and introduces us to three key Langham Publishing staff members dedicated to fulfilling this work in Africa and Asia.
Rhodian Munyenyembe has found that the path God has led him along in his academic career is a unique one. He was offered a lecturing position before graduating from what is now the Evangelical Bible College of Malawi. Later, while an elder of a church in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, he never expected to be offered a post from a Catholic university to teach Biblical and Religious Studies.
Athena Gorospe, author of Judges and editor of How Long, O Lord? is dedicated to living out Jesus's concern for the marginalised and working with people at the grassroots.
In her life and work, whether counselling typhoon survivors, managing academic paperwork, protesting extrajudicial violence, advocating women's rights, or analysisng the Old Testament – Athena calls us to consider how we will answer Christ's challenge "if you have done it to the lease of my siblings, you have done it to me."
