Articles for tag: Stephen Burris

July 8, 2016

By Jennifer Johnson It”s been a busy year for Stephen Burris. In January, Burris, along with Mark Krause and Kendi Howells Douglas, bought Urban Loft Publishers, an independent publisher of books focusing on urban ministry, church planting, theology, sociology, and even urban planning and architecture. “My friend Sean Benesh started the company a few years ago, and when he offered me the chance to buy it, I jumped at the chance,” Burris says. “It was both a defensive and offensive decision; defensive because we are aware there are many large publishers buying up small ones and putting them on the

November 20, 2012

Christian Standard

Book Reviews Reviews

Missionary Books, Missionary Enterprise, and Workings of the Mind

By LeRoy Lawson The Jesus Documents (The Missiology of Alan R. Tippett Series) Alan R. Tippett (Shawn Redford, editor) Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2012 Â River of God: An Introduction to World Mission Doug Priest and Stephen Burris, editors Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2012 Â Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 (accessed at Audible.com) I remember when Alan R. Tippett came to study at the fledgling Church Growth Institute, which was then meeting on the campus of my alma mater, Northwest Christian College (now University) in Eugene, Oregon. Donald McGavran had only recently

November 5, 2012

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Where Are We Now?

By Stephen Burris Over the past 200 years, there has been a great deal of focus on what the church has been doing, is currently doing, and what still needs to be done. This article seeks to give a general overview of whatÂ the church has been doing to fulfill its nature as a missionary church. This piece builds on a model developed by Ralph Winter1. It looks at the three eras of mission he described and then updates that model to represent the current reality of the world. Virtually from the beginning, the church has wrestled with what task or