Encounters Mission Journal

Issue 44 March 2013
In 2011 we invited Eddie Arthur to give the Annual Lecture in Bible and Mission here at Redcliffe College. This issue of Encounters, which features the full text of Eddie’s paper plus a series of responses from around the globe. The event was sponsored by Wycliffe, Bible Society and Keswick Ministries

Issue 42  Oct 2012
This edition of encounters is focused around the theme of water. A number of aspects relating to water are considered in contemporary local and global contexts, and what clearly emerges is the need to engage critically (and missionally) with the challenges presented by this most precious of resources.

Issue 41 Jul 2012
This issue of Encounters focuses on the theme of Sport. If the literature on the theology of sport is limited, missiological reflection on this ubiquitous human activity fares little better. We hope that this issue will provide a way in to some of the literature that does exist and prompt further discussion and writing. Even more importantly, we hope that many will be motivated to engage in the practice of ‘sports mission’. In one of the articles we receive a profound challenge: ‘For the church to have no designated strategy for reaching this huge people group is at best ignorance and at worst folly’. We hope that this edition of Encounters provides encouraging evidence that such a strategy is developing and prompt further efforts to demonstrate the Lordship of Christ in the world of sport.