Teaching cross-culturally

Cross-cultural teaching fills many of us with apprehension. ‘Is how I’m communicating culturally comprehensible? Am I making too many assumptions? Or too few? How can I find cultural …

Come and See: A Review

The triune God is the missionary God who comes to the world to save the lost. Come and See by Glen Scrivener and Justin Schell articulates well how the mission …

Jack Turner: A Review

The far north fascinates me. I’m drawn by the landscape – that expansively beautiful and inhospitable world, so far removed from my home in busy Manchester – and the people who …

Renée of France

Luther, Calvin, Zwingli….. They’re all key Reformation characters you might’ve heard of. But if I say ‘Renée of France’, I doubt you’d know the name. She …

Healing the Divides: A Review

Healing the Divides: How every Christian can advance God’s vision for racial unity and justice Jason Roach and Jessamin Birdsall This is a very timely book. The death of …

The Lord who kept us

The Lord who kept us when our baby left us It is a year since we said ‘goodbye’ to our daughter, Baby J, whom the Lord took away before we …

Visiting mission partners well

‘I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from …

BEST Quarterly (May 2023)

Welcome to the forty-seventh issue of the BEST prayer news. The aim of the BEST quarterly is to keep you up-to-date with news from study partners past …

Making our time here count

We know that life and ministry in Kampala can feel quite distant and hard to comprehend. Relationships, lectures, school, Sunday school and even marking papers is different. So, to help …

Wilderness survival

‘And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died …

How to prepare for the end of the world

‘…at the dawn of the third millennium, humanity wakes up to an amazing realisation. Most people rarely think about it, but in the last few decades we have managed to …