Michael Rynkiewich

About Face

Evangelism & Missions

“Missionaries have tended to have a negative view of 'face' as something that hinders other people from accepting the gospel. Flanders argues, correctly I think, that every society is concerned about 'face' but prioritize issues differently. This is a fresh perspective and a necessary read for those who teach and practice missiology.”

Creativity and Captivity

Evangelism & Missions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Hybridizing Mission

Evangelism & Missions

“As Asian, African, and South American churches send more missionaries into the world, the cultural landscape for missionaries becomes more complex and the challenge of negotiating cultural differences more multilayered. Lee has conducted a careful ethnographic research project to explore the challenges and tensions within multicultural mission teams in a limited-access country. . . . There is much to learn here, and much work yet to do before multicultural mission teams are as effective as Christian missionaries should be.”

The Hybrid Tsinoys

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Who Do the Ngimurok Say That They Are?

World Religions

“This is exactly the right question! Lines has avoided picking up what anthropology has already discarded—colonial imaginations such as religion, witch doctors, animism, chiefs and tribe—and instead goes on a true journey of discovery. After a decade of living and conducting research among the Turkana of Kenya, Lines knows that life is never as neat as it seems when parsed with outsider categories. He provides us with a nuanced, complex, and contested account that draws the reader into the world of the Turkana and their Christianity.”