Although we understand that the cross is central to Christianity, we tend to avoid the disturbing questions which this raises in practice. Kenneth Leech explores and exposes these questions and shows that they are what gives Christianity its real bite.
Tom Cahill writes about an Irish SVD missionary, Paul Merne from Carlow, who has been living and working among the Otomi and Zapotec Indians in Mexico since 1979.
Stephen Cottrell’s vision of an evangelising church embraces Christians of every tradition, and explores practical ways of developing structures and ministries that will establish a culture of evangelism in local churches.
Raymund J Festin SVD from the Philippines writes about his work in Angola, where he learned some important lessons on being a missionary.
J. Andrew Kirk has selected a variety themes for thoughtful consideration of what present day ‘Christian mission’ looks like in a world that is post-modern, post-Christian and post-Western, post-everything! It should be helpful to for church leaders, students and all thinking Christians, inside and outside the academic world, wishing to [...]
Pat Brennan, an Irish Divine Word missionary, talks about his 27 years working in Brazil with Tom Cahill.
Donal Dorr SPS begins with the idea of mission as dialogue between Christianity and other religions, spiritualities and value systems. He goes on to look at mission as evangelisation, as inculturation, as struggle for liberation, as option for the poor and as power from the Spirit. He also looks at [...]
Thirty years after the publication of Pope Paul VI’s Apostolic Exhoration ‘Evangelii Nuntiandi’ many still seem to see “evangelization” in the restricted sense of winning individual converts to the Church.
This collection of essays from people engaged in mission in a variety of contexts around the world shows that there isn’t just one, but many and various, narratives of mission. It is especially in the context of cultural pluralism that the editors invited the contributors to write. What emerges is [...]
Séamus Greene is Director of the National Parents and Siblings Alliance. Thirty years ago his daughter was born with a severe disability which it was difficult even to categorise. Little did he know that she was to become the centre of his and his wife’s life, and how much she [...]
Seán MacGabhann is an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest ministering in Canada. He sees relationship with Jesus as central to Catholicism. So his book is really a campaign to turn Catholics from concern with the institution to personal intimacy with Jesus: from head to heart, from power to service, from complexity [...]
Michael McGuinness, SVD, looks at the Divine Word Missionaries’ presence in Siberia, where we help HIV/AIDS victims, the intellectually disabled and the poor. But it should not be seen, he believes, as an attempt to proselytize the Orthodox faithful.
In this book, Daniel O’Leary develops two themes that are central to the Catholic Education Service(CES) of the religious education programme document of the Bishops of England and Wales. These are: “the Catholic imagination” and “the sacramental vision”. The book is inspired by “On the Way to Life”, an interpretive [...]
Tess Martin looks at the SLÍ EILE movement which is aimed at attracting young people who maybe don’t go to Mass any more and to try and make the faith more relevant to their lives.
John Drane offers the follow up to The McDonalization of the Church – where he puts forward arguments for a reinvigorated style of ministry, questions what it means to be Christian in a post-Christendom context, and asks what values might inspire the leaders of the 21st century.
The Medical Missionaries of Mary’s newest mission is in the city of Feira da Santana in north-east Brazil. Sisters Siobhán Corkery, Ursula Cott, and Sheila Linehan are the Irish sisters involved. They are helped by local lay missionaries Sirlane Santo Silva and Ligeane Cardoso dos Santos.
How to minister in contemporary Irish society is the question addressed by the articles in this interesting book edited by St Patrick’s Missionary Fr Thomas Grenham. Topics include the roles of conversation, presence, systems theory, supervision and reading the signs of the times play in pastoral ministry.
Paul Andrews SJ recounts his time with the parish priest in a New Zealand parish and how the way of life there gives expression to the gospel message in the 21st century.
Pat Connor explains how SVD and SSpS missionaries are working through VIVAT International to help the UN develop solutions to the world’s problems.
Murambatsvina is a Shona word meaning “clean-up”. This story describes how a supposed “clean-up” operation is used to bring to heel the urban dwellers consistently opposed to the ruling political party. Fr Michael Bennett, a Kiltegan missionary, has worked for fifteen years as a justice and peace activist in Mutare, [...]
D. Vincent Twomey SVD sees Mission Sunday as an opportunity to reflect on the question “Why mission?” and to think about what our response we can make.
