The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

New books aren’t always the best books, and new voices aren’t always wisest. In issues of revitalization, gospel and culture, and church and kingdom, I often find myself thinking of the remarkable vision embodied in E. Stanley Jones’ early books.   E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), Methodist missionary to India and global Christian evangelist and statesman, in later life became known particularly as a devotional writer. He is also the person for whom Asbury Seminary’s School of World Mission and Evangelism is named. It is his early work, however, that is most prophetic today.…