Studies in Culture

1. Face to Face Resources 2. Other Resources ____ 1. Face to Face Resources Abdullah Saeed / Islamic Religious Education and its Reform The All-Encompassing Nature of Islam Amin Saikal / Islam and the West: Containing the Rage? And we for the sake of Christ all things bear: Fatima Al-Mutairi’s poem before her martyrdom Aziz [...]

Hayward is a Christian anthropologist who lectures at Biola University. This is a very helpful presentation explaining how anthropologists view religion and how a Christian anthropologist adds to this. Hayward has some excellent things to say which are relevant to evangelism and ministry across cultures. His wide-sweeping lecture also concerns the relationship between the science [...]

1. Biblical Perspectives 2. Hot Issue: Multi-Ethnic Congregations/Church Communities OR HUP (Homogeneous Unit Principle) Churches? 3. General 4. Videos 5. Websites ____ 1. Biblical Perspectives The Bible as Authority as an Antidote to Cultural Imperialism Bible Translation in Historical Context. The Changing Role of Cross-Cultural Workers (International Journal of Frontier Missiology) A Biblical Model of [...]

First port of call: Aussie ESL (lots of great resources and links) 1. General 2. Help in Particular Areas 3. Relevant Resources from Face to Face Intercultural 4. Resources to Use Online (usable in classes IF internet access and good video-audio capability) ____ 1. GENERAL Activities for ESL Students Arlington Education and Employment Program. REEP [...]

Introduction This man can speak a little English. He can not read or write in English.  He has a problem at work. Abdul’s Story Hi. My name is Abdul. I am from Morocco. In my country I was an accountant. When I came to the U.S., I needed a job. My friend told me about [...]

In his book Separate No More Norman Peart points out that in early Colonial society (the 1600s) English law, which then governed Virginia, required any slave, African or white, to be freed upon conversion to Christianity on the rationale that “infidels could be enslaved as a means of communicating the gospel to them.” This disgraceful [...]

In his book Christianity Alongside Islam (Acorn Press, 2o10) John Wilson finds it necessary to deal with the outlandish view of some “new atheists” that Jesus never lived at all. This position is so absurd as to be not worthy of consideration were it not for the fact that others are repeating this view as [...]

In his recent book Christianity Alongside Islam (Acorn Press, 2010), John Wilson combats the common secularist notion that all religions are essentially the same. According to such a viewpoint choosing a religion is akin to choosing between a Ford or a Toyota or between McDonald’s and KFC – just a matter of personal preference. What [...]

I enjoyed reading Richard Glover’s witty article in this last weekend’s Spectrum (“Playing the patriot game? That’s so un-Australian”). The term “un-Australian” has sadly become a device used by many in political debates to insinuate that those holding an opposing viewpoint are somehow unpatriotic. Glover begins his article jocularly asking: Can we ban the term [...]

In the 16th century Montaigne observed the ethnocentrism of his compatriots: Once out of their villages, they feel like fish out of water. Wherever they go they cling to their ways and curse foreign ones. If they come across a fellow-countryman… they celebrate the event… With a morose and taciturn prudence they travel about wrapped [...]