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Kingdom Partnerships for Synergy in Missions
Kingdom Partnerships for Synergy in Missions William D. Taylor, Editor William Carey Library Pasadena, California, USA Editor: William D. Taylor Technical Editor: Susan Peterson Cover Design: Jeff Northway © 1994 World Evangelical Fellowship Missions Commission All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo- copying and recording, for any purpose, without the express written consent of the publisher. Published by: William Carey Library P.O. Box 40129 Pasadena, CA 91114 USA Telephone: (818) 798-0819 ISBN 0-87808-249-2 Printed in the United States of America Table of Contents Preface Michael Griffiths . vii The World Evangelical Fellowship Missions Commission William D. Taylor . xiii 1 Introduction: Setting the Partnership Stage William D. Taylor . 1 PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF PARTNERSHIP 2 Kingdom Partnerships in the 90s: Is There a New Way Forward? Phillip Butler . 9 3 Responding to Butler: Mission in Partnership R. Theodore Srinivasagam . 31 4 Responding to Butler: Reflections From Europe Stanley Davies . 43 PART TWO: CRITICAL ISSUES IN PARTNERSHIPS 5 Cultural Issues in Partnership in Mission Patrick Sookhdeo . 49 6 A North American Response to Patrick Sookhdeo Paul McKaughan . 67 7 A Nigerian Response to Patrick Sookhdeo Maikudi Kure . 89 8 A Latin American Response to Patrick Sookhdeo Federico Bertuzzi . 93 9 Control in Church/Missions Relationship and Partnership Jun Vencer . 101 10 Confidence Factors: Accountability in Christian Partnerships Alexandre Araujo . 119 iii PART THREE: INTERNATIONALIZING AGENCIES 11 Challenges of Partnership: Interserves History, Positives and Negatives James Tebbe and Robin Thomson . 131 12 Internationalizing Agency Membership as a Model of Partnership Ronald Wiebe . -
Barnabas Aid Magazine May/June 2020
barnabasfund.org barnabasaid MAY/JUNE 2020 BARNABAS FUND - AID AGENCY FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH - BRINGING HOPE TO SUFFERING CHRISTIANS EAST AFRICA AND ASIA UK PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW COVID-19 GLOBAL CRISIS “Perfect storm” of locust plague Barnabas Fund praised for best How the pandemic crisis is and coronavirus pandemic practice by British government affecting the persecuted Church SAVING GOD’S PEOPLE IN CRISIS What helps make Barnabas Fund distinctive from other The Barnabas Fund Distinctive Christian organisations that deal with persecution? We work by: ● Acting on behalf of the persecuted ● facilitate global intercession for Church, to be their voice - making their the persecuted Church by providing ● Directing our aid only to Christians, needs known to Christians around comprehensive prayer material although its benefits may not be the world and the injustice of their safeguard and protect our volunteers, exclusive to them (“As we have persecution known to governments and ● staff, partners and beneficiaries opportunity, let us do good to all international bodies people, especially to those who belong ● keep our overheads low to the family of believers.” Galatians 6:10, emphasis added) We seek to: meet both practical and spiritual needs We believe: ● Channelling money from Christians ● we are called to address both religious and through Christians to Christians (we do encourage, strengthen and enable the ● ● secular ideologies that deny full religious not send people, we only send money) existing local Church and Christian liberty to Christian minorities - while communities - so they can maintain ● Channelling money through existing continuing to show God’s love to all people structures in the countries where their presence and witness rather funds are sent (e.g. -
The Challenges of Islamist Ideology to America's Founding Principles
No. 2430 June 29, 2010 The Challenges of Islamist Ideology to America’s Founding Principles Michael Nazir-Ali Abstract: What challenges does Islamism pose domesti- cally to the core principles of Western plural societies, par- ticularly the United States? Although Islamist rhetoric is Talking Points sharp and polarizing, many of these tenets have been • Radical Islamism poses critical challenges for derived from classical Islamic sources, and Islamists reject free societies in the West. any interpretations of them offered by “reform-minded” or • In recent years, there have been increasing “moderate” Muslims. Western European and British expe- calls for Western legal recognition of cer- riences point to potential areas of friction in public life. tain aspects of Islamic law; but because of Specifically of note are the following Islamist tenets as they the fundamental opposition between the relate to specific core principles of Western legal and social assumptions of Western public law and those foundations: the challenge of Shari-ca law to the rule of law; of the Sharīca, it is impossible to provide of the role of women to equality before the law; of alleged Sharīca with a recognized place in terms of “defamation of religion” to religious liberty, freedom of the rule of law. speech, and academic freedom; and of Islamic financing to • Sharīca’s denial that the law should apply free enterprise. equally to all has ramifications in arenas ranging from family law and the place of women in society to freedom of belief and expression. Western legal tradition rests on the idea that there is “one law for all.” This idea has emerged from the • The rise of radical Islamism, the relation- Judeo–Christian tradition as mediated by the Enlight- ship of isolation to radicalization, and the spread of radicalization through extremists in enment, particularly from the tradition’s teaching mosques, schools, universities, and prisons about the equal dignity and liberty of all and that the pose crucial concerns for the United States, law should therefore apply equally to all. -
Book Review 5 Book Review
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 108 (2019): July-December, book review 5 www.erlacs.org Book Review – The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today, by James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer. Routledge, 2017. – Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change Development and Resistance Dynamics, by Henry Veltmeyer & James Petras. Routledge, 2019. The 2000s witnessed a tremendous surge for Latin America’s left-leaning social and political movements, initiated by the rise to power of Hugo Chávez in the Venezuelan presidential election of 1998. The books under review here address from a Marxist perspective the historical, political-economic, and political-sociological contexts of Latin America’s development and leftism. The Class Struggle in Latin America (CSLA) scrutinizes the changing dynamics of class struggle against the background of the rise and demise of neoliberalism in Latin America. According to James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, the changing dynamics of Latin America’s class struggle are largely contingent on the shift of the locus of class struggle from land and labour to dispersed communities representing indigenous people, adding to the increasing prominence of precarious, unemployed, and informal workers. Neoliberalism was also accompanied by the ascendancy of extractive capital and China as catalysts for the primary commodities boom of the 2000s. In explaining the negative socioeconomic and ecological impacts of rising extractivism (or excessive dependency on extractive capital), Petras and Veltmeyer refer to David Harvey’s notion of accumulation by dispossession, understood as a process by which popular sectors are forced to abandon their communities. -
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo Dr Patrick Sookhdeo Was
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo Dr Patrick Sookhdeo was born in Guyana, South America, of South Asian parentage. He was ordained in the Church of Pakistan, and gained a Ph.D. from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. In the USA he has received a doctorate from Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Wisconsin, for his work in the area of human rights and religious liberty and also from Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, for his work in the area of pluralism. Dr Sookhdeo is the International Director of Barnabas Fund, an aid agency that works in over 80 countries to assist the persecuted Church, with a particular emphasis on Islamic contexts. He is also Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, a UK-based Christian research institute which focuses on the situation of Christian minorities in Muslim- majority contexts and current trends in Islam. He was for 23 years minister of St Andrew’s Church, Plaistow, in a multi-cultural area of east London, UK. He has been a visiting lecturer at various theological institutions around the world including Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and Oak Hill Theological College, London, in the UK; Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon and the Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida in the USA; and the Bible College of Victoria. With more than 40 years’ experience as pastor, evangelist, Bible teacher and author, he regularly speaks at Christian conferences worldwide and lectures on Islamic, multicultural and race issues. He is the author, co-author or editor of 23 books. He is Dean-Theologian of Abuja (Church of Nigeria) and Non-Residentiary Canon of Peshawar (Church of Pakistan). -
From Brexit and Trump to Le Pen
From ,re-it and Trump to .e Pen The systematic effort of the Transnational .lite to crush the /0re1it revolution23 From 0re1it and Trump to 4e Pen TADIS FOTOPOB4OS (05.05.2017) Abstract3 It is shown that the 0re1it revolution of the victims of globali-ation against the Transnational .lite, which began with the 0re1it referendum in 2016 and continued with the BS and the French presidential elections, shows presently signs of decline, following the frontal attac) of the elites against it. There are strong indications that the 0re1it revolution in BD may be being derailed, whereas the corresponding revolution in BSA is being betrayed and in France the coronation of a faithful member of the same elites, as the new President of the Republic, loo)s almost certain. It is argued that only the self organi-ation of the victims of globali-ation in the form of Popular Fronts for National and Social 4iberation could create the conditions to overcome the new, and worse ever, Ciddle Ages that the present NWO of neoliberal globali-ation has heralded. There is no doubt anymore that a frontal attac) has been launched by the entire Transnational .lite 1 against the è0re1it revolutionê, i.e. the phenomenal insurrection of the victims of neoliberal globali-ation against the elites, which began in 0ritain last year and quic)ly spread all over the world, first to BSA and then to France and beyond. Aowever, it is now clear that the systematic attempt to derail the 0re1it revolution in BD, as well as Trump2s reversal of almost all his pre election promises to the American victims of globali-ation within the first 100 days in office, and, finally, the present looming disaster in the French Presidential elections with the almost inevitable coronation of the candidate of the Transnational .lite, the e1 Rothschild ban)er Cacron, are all parts of the same pu--le. -
Noam Chomsky: Turning the Tide
NOAM CHOMSKY TURNING THE TIDE US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace ESSENTIAL CLASSICS IN POLITICS: NOAM CHOMSKY EB 0007 ISBN 0 7453 1345 0 London 1999 The Electric Book Company Ltd Pluto Press Ltd 20 Cambridge Drive 345 Archway Rd London SE12 8AJ, UK London N6 5AA, UK www.elecbook.com www.plutobooks.com © Noam Chomsky 1999 Limited printing and text selection allowed for individual use only. All other reproduction, whether by printing or electronically or by any other means, is expressly forbidden without the prior permission of the publishers. This file may only be used as part of the CD on which it was first issued. TURNING THE TIDE US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace Noam Chomsky 4 Copyright 1985 by Noam Chomsky Manufactured in the USA Production at South End Press, Boston Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Chomsky, Noam Turning the tide. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Central America—Politics and government—1979- . 2. Violence—Central America—History—20th century. 3. Civil rights—Central America—History—20th century. 4. Central America—Foreign relations—United States. 5. United States— Foreign relations—Central America. I. Title F1 436. 8. U6 1985 327. 728073 ISBN: 0-7453-0184-3 Digital processing by The Electric Book Company 20 Cambridge Drive, London SE12 8AJ, UK www.elecbook.com Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky 5 Contents Click on number to go to page Introduction................................................................................. 8 1. Free World Vignettes .............................................................. 11 1. The Miseries of Traditional Life.............................................. 15 2. Challenge and Response: Nicaragua...................................... -
Still on the Clock
Still On The Clock A democratic peace theory review on the US and Venezuela conflicts between 2001-2007 Christopher James William Gharib Latin American Studies Bachelor course Stockholm University - Autumn 2017 Supervisor: Edgar Zavala Pelayo Still On The Clock A democratic peace theory review on the US and Venezuela conflicts between 2001-2007 Christopher James William Gharib Abstract This dissertation, by using the case of tensions between the United States and Venezuela between 2001-2007, examines Rummel’s hypothesis that democratic countries are inherently peaceful, and investigates whether the tensions in US-Venezuela relations under president George W Bush and president Hugo Chavez confirms or rejects Rummel’s hypothesis. A review of relevant documents, reports by non-governmental organizations and previous research in the field of international relations lead us to the conclusion that while the strained relationship between the US and Venezuela did reach a stage of coercive diplomacy, as defined by Jakobsen, the threats between the two countries did not escalate towards military aggression, and therefore Rummel’s hypothesis is confirmed. Keywords Democratic peace theory, Rummel, Jakobsen, Coercive diplomacy, US, Venezuela, Bush, Chavez, Psychological war. 2 Table of Contents 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 4 2: Aim ............................................................................................................................................ -
The Bulletin
THE BULLETIN News and Reports from the Social Issues Team Issue 44 – June 2020 CONTENTS Norman Wells (1963-2020) 2 Gospel truth in contemporary culture Norman Wells 3 Five central issues Norman Wells 10 Biblical Christianity promotes religious freedom Sharon James 15 The use of ultrasounD in crisis pregnancy Chris Richards 20 Lessons from Spurgeon on coronavirus Tim Dieppe 23 Veganism: a moral matter? Regan King 26 Francis Collins wins the Templeton Prize John Ling 31 Book review: The death of western Christianity Ian McNaughton 33 Book review: HanDle with care Regan King 34 Life Issues John Ling 36 UpDate on recent cases 46 The Bulletin is published by the Social Issues Team of Affinity Editor: Matthew Evans, [email protected] 1 Norman Wells (1963 – 2020) Photo: Becsy Nicholas It was with profounD saDness that we hearD on 1 April 2020 of the death of Norman Wells, our brother in Christ and member of the Affinity Social Issues Team, as a result of contracting CoviD-19. Norman was a much-valued part of our team as well as the Director of the Family Education Trust. Our hearts go out to his wife Nicola anD nine chilDren; we remember them in our prayers. Writing on the Christian Institute’s website, their Director, Colin Hart, paiD tribute: ‘I knew Norman for over twenty years as a campaigner for the family, with clear biblical convictions. He was much to be admired for his quiet, painstaking research and crystal-clear writing. He was a passionate advocate for marriage and the family, and very influential, though he never sought the limelight. -
Britain's Love Affair with Refugees - Past but Not Present?
Truly, Madly, Deeply: Britain's Love Affair With Refugees - Past but not Present? TONY KUSHNER Abstract Britain's response to the recent refugee crisis is marked by its paucity. This article explores how constructions of the past have been instrumentalised by both those defending government policies and those demanding that more should be let in. The focus is on child refugees and the comparisons drawn (and rejected) to the Kindertransport. Through discussion in parliament, the media, cultural productions and amongst ordinary people, it shows the importance of 'history' and how references to the Second World War and the Holocaust have tended to help justify rather than query the exclusion of today's refugees and thereby providing a very different example to Germany. Keywords Refugees; Kindertransport; Holocaust; Britain; Germany; Second World War; Syria; parliament; media; Mass-Observation; history. In Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), a film that passionately fights back against the selfishness and bigotry that typified the excesses of Thatcherism and instead posits a 'liberal humanism',1 Juliet Stevenson's character cannot bring herself to love again until she has - with his permission - let go of the ghost of her soulmate and husband (Alan Rickman) who has died prematurely and suddenly. The film works not only because of the romantic chemistry between Stevenson and Rickman, but through the commitment of Minghella (son of an Isle of Wight Italian origin ice cream maker),2 and the two lead actors (much of the detail was improvised) to a different Britain - one that welcomes diversity and rediscovers compassion.3 It is exemplified by its portrayal of refugees whose talents and skills are ignored by the host society but maintain their dignity and decency. -
Exploraciones/Explorations
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 83, October 2007 | 105-119 Exploraciones/Explorations Bolivia and the Political Dynamics of Change Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras It is commonplace today to argue that the politics of class and a left-right ideologi- cal positioning on the political spectrum do not matter as much as they once did – that the ‘new world order’ of neoliberal globalization has totally changed the po- litical landscape. All regimes and parties in power seem to be constrained in a similar way to implement close variations on a few policy themes. Thus, left-right distinctions in the shaping of political space and the unfolding of diverse political dynamics in diverse contexts are no longer relevant. What matters is that under current conditions, politicians of whatever stripe, no matter what the professed ideological orientation, in power end up with the same policies. A different way of putting this is that the forces of globalization (the dynamics of neoliberal globaliza- tion and capitalist development) work by constraining the policy options available. Class factors, including ideology, play a reduced role – or so goes the prevailing theory. This article explores several dimensions of this issue in the context of Bolivia, with reference to political developments associated with the ascent and assumption of state power by Evo Morales, an indigenous leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS), after a year and a half in power. Compared to Ignacio [Lula] da Silva, leader of the Worker’s Party (PT) and now president of Brazil, in regard to whom a similar analysis could be (and has been) made, and other ‘leftists’ (or populists) who in recent years have assumed state power in Latin America, Morales is rela- tively close to the social base of the popular movement and ‘the people’ that he purportedly represents. -
Give and Take: How Conservatives Think About Welfare
How conservatives think about w elfare Ryan Shorthouse and David Kirkby GIVE AND TAKE How conservatives think about welfare Ryan Shorthouse and David Kirkby The moral right of the authors has been asserted. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. Bright Blue is an independent think tank and pressure group for liberal conservatism. Bright Blue takes complete responsibility for the views expressed in this publication, and these do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. Director: Ryan Shorthouse Chair: Matthew d’Ancona Members of the board: Diane Banks, Philip Clarke, Alexandra Jezeph, Rachel Johnson First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Bright Blue Campaign ISBN: 978-1-911128-02-1 www.brightblue.org.uk Copyright © Bright Blue Campaign, 2014 Contents About the authors 4 Acknowledgements 5 Executive summary 6 1 Introduction 19 2 Methodology 29 3 How conservatives think about benefit claimants 34 4 How conservatives think about the purpose of welfare 53 5 How conservatives think about the sources of welfare 66 6 Variation amongst conservatives 81 7 Policies to improve the welfare system 96 Annex one: Roundtable attendee list 112 Annex two: Polling questions 113 Annex three: Questions and metrics used for social and economic conservative classification 121 About the authors Ryan Shorthouse Ryan is the Founder and Director of Bright Blue.