Missional Conversations

Cathy Ross is Lecturer for Contextual Theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She is MA Co-ordinator for Pioneer Leadership Training at CMS (Church Mission Society). She comes from Aotearoa/NZ. She has written numerous books, most recently Mission on the Road to Emmaus.Colin Smith is Dean of Mission Education at the Church Mission Society and teaches on the MA in Mission and Anthropology

'Cathy Ross and Colin Smith have put together an amazing collection of essays in these pages. Not only does their conversational method match their understanding of mission. Their content is fresh, exciting, imaginative, and in some cases groundbreaking. This is a pioneering book in every sense of the word. It's certainly the best collection of essays in missiology that I have read in a long time.'

• List of Contributors Introduction: The Far Off Country Coming Ever Closer - Cathy Ross and Colin SmithPart 1 Contexts for MissionEnvironment1. Context or Content? The Place of the Natural Environment in World Mission - Dave Bookless2. Creation Care Around the World: Grounded Engagement - Amy RossMigration3. Refugees, Lampedusa and the Eucharist: Reflections on the Mission from ‘Otherness’ to ‘Oneness’ - Daniel G. Groody CSC4. Mission and Migration - Amy RocheInterfaith5. Being With: A Personal Reflection on Christian Presence and Other Faiths in Southall, West London - Mark Poulson6. Being With: Christian Presence and Other Faiths - Richard SudworthEconomic Disparity7. Economics and Inequality: A Christian Response - David Barclay8. Economics and Inequality: A Relational Response - John WheatleyUrbanization9. Klong Toey and Barriers to Transformation in Urban Slum and Informal Settlement Neighbourhoods - Ash Barker10 Urbanity in the Global South and the Future of the Christian Faith: Reflections on Theology and Mission - Stephan de BeerPart 2 Expressions of MissionCommunity11. An Ecosystem Called Community - Elisa Padilla12. Community as Mission - Berdine van den Toren-LekkerkerkerNew Forms of Church13. Church as God’s Conversation Partner with the World - Andrea Campanale14. A Conversational Approach to New Forms of Church - Michael MoynaghSouthern Mission Movements15. Audacity, Intentionality and Hope in the Churches of the Global South - Kyama Mugambi16. Mission in the Global South - Harvey KwiyaniInnovation17 Bridging the Divide: Mission and Social Innovation in East Africa - Dennis Tongoi18. Treasures Old and New: Social Innovation and the Renewal of Mission - Paul BickleyImagination19. I’ll Meet You There: A Conversation on the Meeting Place of Mission and Imagination - Jonny Baker and Ric StottEpilogue: A Mission Spirituality for Turbulent Times - Ian AdamsBibliography Index of Names and Subjects