Alongside Polycentric Mission, the leadership qualities required to enable organisations and networks to work in this way are described in the book ‘Polycentric Mission Leadership’, by Joseph Handley, based on his PhD studies on the topic.
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A survey of the Evangelical Alliance websites of countries which are members of the European Evangelical Alliance, looking for mention on their websites of articles or resources relating to the key search phrases of ‘climate change’, ‘climate crisis’ and ‘creation care’.
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While many people arriving across Europe from Ukraine since February plan to return, the prolonged duration of the war means that this is not possible yet. Short term crisis solutions will not be enough, and many churches and networks are involved in creating a longer term response.
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We are delighted that Harvey Kwiyani is joining the Vista editorial team. Originally from Malawi, Harvey is CEO of Global Connections in the UK. His latest book is Multicultural Kingdom, Ethnic Diversity Mission and the Church. Read an interview with Harvey here…
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Dr David Voas is Chair of the European Values Survey Theory Group, who are responsible for developing the questionnaires, and a member of their Executive Committee. We spoke to Dr Voas about his work with EVS and asked him to reflect on our analysis of the 2017-2020 data.
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It is a particular feature of our work that we are with people when their world is turned upside down and everything they thought they knew has been stripped away. The key is being there.
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The same year that Charles Taylor published A Secular Age (2007), Philip Jenkins also wrote about the interface between religion and secular society in his book God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis …
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Like the rest of Europe, life for asylum seekers in Gloucester, England, is a ‘liminal space’ where they survive and wait, knowing they could be moved by the authorities at any time. “It is like living in an open prison without a status, charged of a crime without a name,”
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There are a number of courses and other resources available to equip you in reaching Muslims
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In February/March 2017 we carried out a small-scale survey to find out more about the networks you, our Vista readers, are involved in.
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It is said that there are three things British people don’t talk about: money, sex and politics. Now there are only two. Both before the referendum vote and especially afterwards, politics was a frequent – and at times the only – topic of conversation.
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How concerned are people living in the EU about the environment – and what do they think should be done to address these concerns? This was the focus of a Eurobarometer survey carried out in 2014 across all EU member states.
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Right across Europe, there are rumours of a growing wave of church planting movements and God at work in amazing ways amongst Muslims and Iranians, the African diaspora and the Roma to name just a few.
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Peter J Farmer and his wife Marsha and 3 kids are based in Nottingham, UK. After a number of years engaged in Pioneer Mission locally and throughout the city and county of Notts they began travelling across the 12 regions of Britain
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For Christians who want to adopt a missional mindset, Michael Frost poses the following important question: what does the reign of God through Christ look like in my neighbourhood?
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Between January and March 2012, I carried out some small-scale research amongst 18-30 year-old Christian Europeans, in order to discover their perceptions of a missional lifestyle
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According to Together in Berlin, more than eighty missional initiatives have started in the last 10 years. When you next visit Berlin, you might like to add one or two of them to your tour itinerary.
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There is no such person as a ‘typical’ migrant in Europe. The experiences of the trafficked girl from Eastern Europe, the African family living just down the road or an Asian working in a multinational company will be worlds apart
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Homelessness, debt and human trafficking that have become even bigger issues since the onset of the crisis. How are churches and mission agencies responding?
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