IFES Word & World

Theological Reflections about the world students live in

Issue 9: Race and Justice

Left behind? Justice and the church after George Floyd 
Paula Fuller
Undermining racism
N.T. Wright
Let justice roll
Bethany Peevy
Translating Vision into Reality: Normalising the Biblical Image of Racial Relations
Jasmine Foo
Preservation and Liberation
Eleasah Phoenix Louis
The Letter of James in contexts of inequality: A Latin American Perspective
Alejandra Ortiz

Issue 8: Hope for creation

Is there hope for creation?
Las G Newman
Good news for the whole creation
Ruth Hicks de Olmedo
Creaturely theology
Andrew Shepherd
Pessimistic theology and its impact on the world today
Pablo Pistilli
Feeding the poor
E. Daniel Cárdenas-Vásquez
A brief history of IFES Word & World
Robert W. Heimburger

Issue 7: What is the university for?

We become dreamers
Esther Phua
To wonder, learn, and love
Brian A. Williams
The humility of what we do not know
Santa J. Ono
Universities as watchdogs
Jeremiah Amai Veino Duomai
Towards a Christian vision for the modern secular university
Ross McKenzie

Issue 6: Rethinking leadership

Rethinking leadership
Joshua Bogunjoko
Leadership in times of crisis
Daniel Salinas
Leaders eat last
Wendy Quay Honeycutt
The challenge of change for African leaders
Pierre Ezoua

Issue 5: Violence against women in the university

What is campus rape culture?
Elisabet le Roux
Girls beyond Ipanema
Deborah Vieira
Everybody’s business
Kendall Cox
Male violence against women on campus
Jamila Koshy

Issue 4: You will be my witnesses

Christian witness in the university
Vinoth Ramachandra
Sharing the joy of the gospel
Cathy Ross
Why inter-religious dialogue needs apologetics
Benno van den Toren
Creation, mission and Christ’s witnesses
Fernando Abilio Mosquera Brand

Issue 3: Persecution and Suffering

The threat to Christian identity in Iraq
Sister Nazek Matty
A gospel worth dying for
Benjamin Argak Kwashi
Suffering persecution for justice’s sake
Nesmy Bersot Mvé Nguéma
The hidden glory of martyrdom
Michael P Jensen
Suffering and persecution in early Christianity
Matthew J Thomas
‘Martyrdom we can accept, but not genocide!’
Hwa Yung
A theology of tears: cry with us
Yohanna Katanacho

Issue 2: Reading the Bible in context

The Africa Study Bible: God’s word through African eyes
John Jusu; Matthew Elliott
The Bible, communism, and totalitarianism in 1960’s Latin America
Samuel Escobar
A case study in the Bible and authority
Charlie Hadjiev
Ethics, context, and the biblical text
Myrto Theocharous
The sacred task of the Bible interpreter: the method of a Chinese Christian
K K Yeo

Issue 1 : Migration through the eyes of faith

Migration through the eyes of faith: God’s people, national lands, and universities
Robert W Heimburger
Response: critical questions that need to be asked about the migration crisis in Europe
Chawkat Moucarry
Response: migration through the eyes of faith
Chris Wright

Word and World: what’s in the name?

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IFES Word & World

Theological Reflections about the world students live in

Issue 9: Race and Justice

Issue 8: Hope for creation

Issue 7: What is the university for?

Issue 6: Rethinking leadership

Issue 5: Violence against women in the university

Issue 4: You will be my witnesses

Issue 3: Persecution and Suffering

Issue 2: Reading the Bible in context

Issue 1 : Migration through the eyes of faith

Word and World: what’s in the name?