Once in the history of the world a community of human beings began a discussion as to...

Few missionaries have suffered such difficulties as the Anthony Groves family endured when they left England and...

The Hasidim: A Jewish voluntary society organized in Bible times.  Our interest in this superb book, Discipling...

Studying Monty Lynn’s doctoral dissertation, Making a Tremendous Discovery This dissertation is an appreciation of the charity...

We reviewed Alice Ott’s book here and praised it as “a masterpiece, perhaps the most important mission...

Featuring Justinian Welz’s proposal to organize a “Jesus-Loving” Mission Society, and a response from his principal opponent,...

In Islam there are two kinds of structures, mosque and charitable organizations. Charities provide education or direct...

“Don’t forget that when I met Jesus, I knew I had come home. So whether I live...

This is such an interesting book on the topic “Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and...

In first century AD Israel three kinds Jewish leaders gained popular followings. There were leaders of outlaw...

This interesting book is a history of popular movements during the lifetime of Jesus. The Gospels say...

This book is a captivating history of popular movements that sprang up in the time of Jesus....

This wonderful, weighty book collects 80 biographies of some of the greatest missionaries and mission administrators of...

This is the story of George Müller, the man who opened his doors to the orphans of...

Gailyn Van Rheenen has written a tremendous college level book on missions. Paul Hiebert writes in the...

This book is about Sarah Huntington Smith (1802-1836) and other missionary women—Sarah’ sisters—who opened the first schools...

The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia Eastern Christianity...

This is the story of a “lost history,” twice so; first, it is lost because Eastern Christianity...

This is the best reference book on Global Christianity today. Country by country, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe,...

Every reader who has traveled to another country can tell stories of how people do things differently...

Donald T. Black (d. 2013) had a distinguished career in the Presbyterian Church (USA) as a missions...

Motus Dei is a very fine book about the biblical basis of praying for “movements to Christ.”...

This book is a library of information about the city of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus....

Jewish Humanitarian Organizations in America It is so interesting to borrow books from the Jewish library in...

What I Learned from the Final Generation of Jews Who Lived in Lithuania There is a wonderful...

The Story of Catholic and Protestant Nuns in Germany This book collects four very interesting letters written...

Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants “I visited a Benedictine monastery," writes Dennis Okholm, "and enjoyed the extraordinary hospitality...

Anthony Norris Groves was the first Protestant missionary to live in Baghdad. He arrived there in 1830....

Eastward to Persia: Missionary Sending Basis at Nisibis and Mt. Izla. For generations the leading Persian missionary...

How the Council of Ephesus Acted Decisively and Tragically to Condemn the Church of the East. Nestorius...

Part 1: From Edessa and Nisibis Missionaries Traveled East to Establish Christianity in Persia This is the...

The Ascendancy of Celtic Monasticism. St. Patrick said he converted "all of Ireland." He baptized thousands and...

A story from China. When Greek Orthodox missionaries arrived in China, they were considerably impressed by the...

Father Junipero Serra was a great man. Let modern historians cast their aspersions against “the great man...

This masterpiece is perhaps the most important mission book of our time. Professor Alice Ott presents 12...

This book is a history of Irish missionaries who sold their possessions and sailed to Europe to...

It is a widely held sentiment that the Antioch church laid hands on Paul and Barnabas and...

The reader is familiar with Emma Lazarus' wonderful poem, written for the dedication of the Statue of...

The New Friars is the story of Christians who, for the love of God, have sold their...

To Advance the Gospel, by R. Pierce Beaver—a Biography of Rufus Anderson Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) graduated from...

The Coming of the Friars, By Rosalind B. Brooke This is the story of how St. Francis...

The Celtic Churches. A History, AD 200 to 1200, by John McNeill. University of Chicago Press ©1974...

A story from China. When Greek Orthodox missionaries arrived in China, they met philosophers who studied the...

Frederick Coan Frederick Coan (1859-1943) grew up in Urumia, Persia, the son of missionaries George and Sarah...

The Nestorian Church in Persia. At last, the history of the Church of the East, known also...

A Story. Bilquis Sheikh was a wealthy Pakistan Muslim woman whose husband had abandoned her. She was...

I learned a lot about the Bible by reading Jewish authors. Thank you, Bill Bjoraker, for suggesting...

A Story. The Honorable Order of the Mustard Seed. Three centuries ago Christians fled Moravia to find...

This is a story of declining numbers of the kind that matter most: heartbeats and brainwaves. It...

“Lord, why another mission agency? There are already so many good ones,” Greg Livingstone cried out on...

Fifty years after the New Testament letters were written, St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, was arrested and...

In 738 Frankish king Charles Martel crossed the Rhine near Essen, laid waste the Saxon land beyond...

Patrick was evidently the first Roman to go as a missionary to the regions beyond the borders...

This is the most important book on the history of the expansion of Christianity in Europe. Dr....

Last week my wife and I enjoyed staying at St. Mary’s College, a convent in South Bend,...

Throughout his nine-month visit to America in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville admired the speed of her citizens,...

“As Christians we are an undisciplined people,” writes Albert Edward Day. “That is the reason for the...

Christianity Advanced Among the Celts Tribe by Tribe. The Celtic word for tribe is tuath. The word...

“What is remarkable,” Thomas Cahill writes, “is not that Patrick should have felt an overwhelming sense of...

This is the history of the advance of Christianity in England, Wales, and Scotland. Companies of missionary...

Andrew Brunson, a missionary in Turkey, was arrested and put in prison. “You got the wrong guy....

Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was a Jesuit missionary who lived in India, Indonesia and Japan. He is considered...

David Bosch writes: The Japanese character for “crisis” is a combination of the characters for “danger” and...

David Bosch writes, One of the most remarkable phenomena of the Enlightenment era is the emergence of...

Luther believed the message of Christianity would reach to the ends of the earth; not so the...

The importance of David Bosch’s book Transforming Mission cannot be overstated. “It was received with critical acclaim,...

A person’s power to change the world is quite hobbled when he or she is acting alone....

German-born Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was safe in New York when, in 1939, war broke out in Europe....

This is a book about American mission societies established by women in the 19th century. Mary Webb,...

The author honors the memory of American missionaries who arrived in the Lake Urumia region of northern...

Look at the picture of the book cover. A shower of spent arrows point downwards, about to...

Ethnic Realities and the Church is a history of missionary efforts among the Kurds. This book is...

Gerald Anderson has compiled 1400 biographies of notable Protestant and Catholic missionaries. (There are also biographies of...

To what shall we compare Opus Dei? John Allen, the author of this book, writes, “Think of...