Vista 43: HIS Mission

At the 2010 Lausanne Cape Town Congress, Old Testament scholar and missiologist Chris Wright called the delegates to abandon the idolatry of power, pride, popularity and wealth and to return to humility, integrity and simplicity: H.I.S.

This edition of Vista considers what a Simple Lifestyle means in today's Europe. Evert van de Poll traces the dimensions and the development of this idea in recent evangelical thinking.  Danny Webster and Philip Powell reflect on what living as Christians means in times of economic crisis.

Alex Vlasin presents some unique research on what Central and Eastern European evangelicals think about Creation Care and Jo Appleton reviews the websites of Evangelical Alliances to see what resources on climate change and Creation Care are (or are not) to be found.

This edition of Vista concludes with a review of Bruce Nicholls recent book "From Groaning to Liberation".

We are also delighted to announce that Alex Vlasin has agreed to become a co-editor of Vista. Rev. Dr. Alexandru Vlasin has a Ph.D. in Mission Education from Queens University of Belfast and a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Bucharest. Dr. Vlasin is currently serving as missionary with Barnabas International offering missionary training and member care, as well as being a visiting lecturer at the Baptist Theology Faculty, Bucharest University. He has published two books: “Mission Education in Romanian Evangelical Higher Education” and “Preventing Drug Addiction Relapse” and many articles on social work and mission subjects.

Read Vista 43 here