The following post was contributed by Vishal Mangalwadi. The 9 million people of Haiti, largely of African descent, living in approximately 10,000 square miles in the paradise-like Caribbean island of Hispaniola, constitute the only nation in the world which gained its independence through a successful slave rebellion in 1804. Sadly, Haiti remains
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On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Bay Area of Northern California. 63 people were killed. The earthquake that struck Haiti was also magnitude 7.0, but current estimates are that between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died. As David Brooks of the New York Times wrote in
We have had the privilege of working with a very artistically talented YWAM (Youth with a Mission) base in Puerto Rico for several years. This past fall, Darrow was invited to teach for two weeks on topics of the Great Commission. Here is what the base had to say in
The Disciple Nations Alliance has appeared in the news recently in relationship to our friend Stephen Langa and his involvement with Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Bill, 2009. We first heard of this bill when a reporter contacted us to gain our opinion on the bill last Friday (December 11). We have
Those of you who subscribe to World Magazine will find in the current edition (December 5, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 24) a two-page interview between Darrow and Marvin Olasky focused on themes from Darrow’s new book LifeWork. If you don’t subscribe to World, you can read the article on the World website
October 15th, 2009 Extracted from Darrow Miller’s Memoirs during his recent visit to teach in Peru. I have been encouraged and gratified by the numbers of people who have come up to me to say that they have read Discipling Nations or have attended a conference, and about the impact
For the church to be a positive force in creating healthy, prosperous and free societies, it must recover an understanding of the Cultural Mandate found in Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15. Darrow describes the Cultural Mandate in his new book LifeWork this way: What God made in Genesis chapter 1 was
Good words from Chuck Colson: “Many evangelicals define faith strictly in terms of personal salvation. Yet soul-winning is not an end in itself. We are not only saved from sin, we are also saved to something—to the task of cultivating God’s creation. Genesis teaches that on the first five days, God
Vishal Mangalwadi will be on Hank Hannegraaff’s “The Bible Answer Man” radio program Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9. Here’s what Hank recently wrote about the book: Every now and then I come across a book that is “must reading!” And that is precisely what happened this week. The
I’m a big fan of the writing of Dallas Willard. His recent book, Knowing Christ Today (which is quite different from his previous writings focused on spiritual formation) deals with themes of knowledge, truth, and worldview. Willard’s combined vocation as a Southern Baptist pastor and professor of philosophy at the University
