{"id":9405,"date":"2020-06-24T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:16:11","slug":"book-practicing-hope-missions-and-global-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9405","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Practicing Hope\u2014Missions and Global Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/missionbooks.org\/products\/practicing-hopehttp:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9406 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/practicing-hope-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"practicing hope\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/practicing-hope-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/practicing-hope-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/practicing-hope-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/practicing-hope.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Practicing Hope: Missions and Global Crises<\/em>, edited by Jerry Ireland and Michelle Raven. William Carey Publishing and the Evangelical Missiological Society, 2020. 216 pages.<\/p>\n<p>This new book brings together global scholars and practitioners who share and think broadly about the Church\u2019s mission in a world rife with crises. Rather than harmonizing the voices of the contributors to provide general guidelines for generic crisis response, <em>Practicing Hope<\/em> allows the reader to hear multiple perspectives on complex issues such as sustainability, empowerment, human rights, biblical principles, and the mission of God.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 essays were written for the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS) before the struggles we\u2019ve faced in 2020, as the introduction acknowledges, but their release now is certainly timely.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/missionbooks.org\/products\/practicing-hope\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/missionbooks.org\/products\/practicing-hope\">Learn more or purchase the Kindle edition<\/a> for US$9.99 or less. A paperback edition will come out July 20 and sell for US$14.99.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Are missiologists your tribe? Consider attending this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emsweb.org\/meetings\/conferences\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.emsweb.org\/meetings\/conferences\">EMS national conference<\/a> coming up October 9-10. It will be online and inexpensive. I\u2019m planning to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing Hope: Missions and Global Crises, edited by Jerry Ireland and Michelle Raven. William Carey Publishing and the Evangelical Missiological Society, 2020. 216 pages. This new book brings together global scholars and practitioners who share and think broadly about the Church\u2019s mission in a world rife with crises. Rather than harmonizing the voices of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=9405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK: Practicing Hope\u2014Missions and Global Crises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}