In the Eye of the Hurricane: Explore the Latest Issue of the InSights Journal
What does it mean to flourish in hard seasons? That question sits at the heart of the most recent issue of the InSights Journal for…
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An Orthodox Easter
Editor’s note: Our Eastern Orthodox sisters and brothers celebrate Pascha this Sunday, April 12 — the culmination of Great Lent and Holy Week, marking…
Amplifying Majority World Voices for the Good of the Global Church
We’re excited to share an important next step in a meaningful collaboration. Following recent communication from the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE)…
Guiding Succession: How Flo Kamau is Securing Africa’s Theological Future
Florence Kamau knows what happens when the administration of theological institutions fails. She’s seen seminaries collapse under poor governance, watched promising leaders walk away…
6 Events We’re Excited About in 2026
Across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and beyond, Christian leaders are convening to ask hard questions, seek wisdom, discern what faithfulness requires in…
Love Calls for Solidarity
At the 2012 International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE) triennial meeting, I was asked to lead a session on the implications of an…
The Gospel Is a Song
Recently, I had the very good fortune to overhear a deacon in our church make the passing comment that the gospel is a song, and…
Listen Attentively. Pray Intensely. Act Fiercely.
As 2025 closes, its beginning still feels remarkably vivid: We all continue to carry many of the same griefs with which this year began…
Taras Dyatlik: Leading in the In-Between
Taras Dyatlik: Leading in the In-Between For over three-and-a-half years now, we have asked, “What does faithfulness look like when bombs are dropping from…
Faithful and Effective: Partnering with Gifted Executive Leaders
By Evan R. Hunter, PhD At the end of September, the Board of Directors for Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) gathered around Wissam Nasrallah…
Egyptian Pentecostalism: When Cyclones of Divine Power Invaded the Ancient Land
Our featured publication for February is Egyptian Pentecostalism: When Cyclones of Divine Power Invaded the Ancient Land by Tharwat Maher Nagib Adly Nagib (Leader Studies). Tharwat…
Lived Experiences of Ideologies in Contextual Islam
Our featured publication for March is Lived Experiences of Ideologies in Contextual Islam: An Examination of Ayyaana Possession Cult in Marsabit County, Kenya by Judy Wanjiru…
Kei Hiramatsu from Japan
In Japan, where only 1-2% of the population is Christian, people do not celebrate Christmas in the way Christians around the world do. Our culture generally associates Christmas with romance; thus, young people feel urged to find someone with whom to spend this “romantic holiday.” Alternatively, many families perceive Christmas as the day when they eat Kentucky Fried Chicken together (it is funny but true!). For many Japanese, Christmas is not the day for celebrating our Savior’s birth.
Gerardo Corpeño from El Salvador & Guatemala
What strikes me about the Christmas story (according to Matthew’s account) is that the first Christmas was not a quiet and nice story at all. On the contrary, from the very beginning, on that first Christmas, the good news of salvation for humankind was jeopardized by hatred and violence.
David Kasali in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Special Update
We ask for your intercession on behalf of Beni. Our town has been brutally attacked twice in six days. The armed group that has been killing civilians in the Beni territory since 2014 has made incursions into the town of Beni and into our neighboring town of Oicha, killing over 75 of the most vulnerable inhabitants over the last three weeks. On November 24, one of the members of our contractor’s construction crew, the son of one of our campus guards, was killed in his neighborhood near our main campus.
