Here is an interesting story on CNN: Could this Quran curb extremism? about the new book, The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary...

Because we Evangelicals are so stepped in a guilt/innocence paradigm it is hard for many to accept addressing honor/shame as an au...

Here is a brief and helpful article from Steve Smith at Mission Frontiers: 4 Stages of a Movement . For me, it quickly helps explain some o...

In very recent church history, church planting movements or disciple making movements (DMMs) have been observed in several different context...

From EMQ #002 : Oct 22, 2015 Keith Peters interviews John Jay Travis on "C1-C6 Spectrum after 15 Years"; Warrick Farah and Kyle ...

On behalf of Dr. Kyle Meeker, it’s my pleasure to introduce The W-Spectrum: Worker Paradigms in Muslim Contexts which is on the cover of th...

Not insider, not outsider, but dualsider. I.e. someone who is both an insider and outsider, or someone who is neither inside nor outside, b...

There are certain paradigms of witness to Muslims that treat Islam as an evil, monolithic entity that corrupts everything it touches. Theref...

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From Amazon, Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities: Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices : Muslims who come to Christ face momen...

The essentialist fallacy is committed when an evaluation is made of an “insider” or MBB on the basis of some supposed “real Islam” and not o...

One does not read very far in the Qur'an before it becomes obvious that Muhammad was in some ways a spurned lover. Not that any wom...

Here are some books I want to work through. Does anyone know of attempts to integrate these theological studies with the issues we are facin...

"Would you dare to love ISIS?" That is the name of the video below, a deeply Christian response to the hate and evil pouring o...

Missionaries and theologians within the New Testament were determined not to identify a single, correct understanding of the atonement but ...

Harley Talman graciously responded to my response of his article. Here are the chain of articles in case you’re interested in following this...

Thinking in terms of "black and white" is common in Christian mission. After all, people are either saved or lost, Christian or n...

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Accad responds to the Atlantic article I linked to last week in a post titled Beating Back ISIS on the IMES blog. For those who read the A...

After I received a forth email empathically encouraging me to read What ISIS Really Wants by Graeme Wood, I decided to invest one hour need...

From Ed Stetzer, NEW RESEARCH: How Americans View Islam : Forty-five percent of 1,000 senior Protestant pastors surveyed say the Islamic S...

This past fall I had the privilege of visiting the great nation of Russia--not once but twice. One of those trips was focused on challengin...

See this helpful little book: Reaching the Heart and Mind of Muslims by Matthew Stone. Some of the chapters are fun, and some are very basi...

http://www.bmbtraining.org/ : Why have we created a website devoted to BMB discipleship?  It is because discipling BMBs is an urgent task....