Jean Johnson

Communication in Mission and Development

Evangelism & Missions

“Living with the local people and like the local people in a rural village in Kenya has given Jim insight that cannot be bought or taught. I am willing to sit up and listen to what Jim has to say about communication in mission and development. His book will make you dig deep, think hard, and then think again.”

Connected Learning

Discipleship & Christian Education

“As one who lived in Cambodia for sixteen years, I am thankful for Lynn Thigpen’s gleanings via entering the world of Cambodian adult learners. I am convinced that her research plays an important role in helping foreigners put the cross-cultural work back on their own shoulders, rather than unknowingly crushing the dignity of the local people by converting them to one’s own seemingly sacred learning models.”

Historical Models of Christian Missions

Evangelism & Missions

“What makes Robert Reese’s book on historical models of Christian missions so unique is that Reese was a thread in the tapestry of that history. His grandparents and parents were missionaries to Africa, which means he grew up Zimbabwe. He experienced firsthand a big piece of mission history—how colonialism played out in a country and in missions. Reese is an advocate for cleaning out present-day colonialism that shows up in disguised modern-day forms, so a New Testament style of mission shines forth.”

Who Needs a Missionary?

Evangelism & Missions

“Although this book is about Isaac, a Zimbabwean man of God, there is an underlying story of how Spiritism permeates everything and anything to do with missions. I recommend Who Needs A Missionary? as a clever way to gain much-needed wisdom of the complicated realities of when Christianity meets Spiritism.”