WIIS represents an innovation and revise of the work begun round about living ago under the take the social order that bind been transferred buffed to the new ministry. For some time now it has been my anticipation to help evangelicals and mainline Protestant Christians come to a new way of understanding the new religious movements in America and the Western world, one that shifts from broadcast diverse of them as "cults" to a broader structure that understands them as religious or spiritual cultures or subcultures. Modish this context I bind been pursuing a multidisciplinary lineage to understanding the new religions, and bind as well been shimmering on the history of Christian missions and cross-cultural missiology as sources that can inform how the story of Jesus intensity stuck-up well be customary with fill with pursuing pick spiritual pathways.
As we bind long-drawn-out and revised the the social order buffed the detain round about months we bind seen new keep busy in what we are enactment, new partnerships in our work, and a new legal action in the works.
* As mentioned in a take post, "Revered Tribes Magazine" has been rejuvenated and the website long-drawn-out and amply better due to a studio relating WIIS and Michael Cooper and other post from Trinity Sophisticated Academe. The journal is now peer reviewed, is at the moment seeking new submissions for luck issues, and includes a Scholars Net in studio with WIIS. In division, a studio relating "Revered Tribes", Trinity Sophisticated Academe, and WIIS has come together to put together a literary seminar on new religions to be seized at Trinity in October of this go out with. This seminar represents a dimension of some of the best Christian scholars and lay practitioners working in the cover coming together in plenary and parallell sessions to shimmer on moving the study of and fulfil to new religions to come. As a prompt, it promises to demonstrate everything unusual in evangelical conferences on new religions.
* Not have a yen ago we broad the website for WIIS which can be found at www.wiics.org. This website was intended by John Smulo, and we fortunate submission his abilities at website and blog design. On the new website you spur find diverse helpful features, as well as a name of our the social order and its happenings, as well as a list of the scholars who be selected for our WIIS Inspect Fellows, our presentations and training, and our recent legal action (described base).
* The real McCoy primitive furnish created by WIIS is called "Transitions". For any mass of reasons, each go out with stunning kick out of Latter-day Saints strike their church and move headed for traditional Christianity. But with this migration comes diverse challenges, as well as emotional, cultural, and doctrinal issues. We are in the pre-production stages for the foundation of a 10-part series that spur control video segments, a facilitator's workbook, and team member guide, that spur reach the challenges in transitioning featuring in traditional Christian churches and spirituality. This furnish spur hunt down in the tradition of "Bridges" and "High and dry", two resources on Mormonism created by Brackish Basin Theological School. Determine stuck-up about "Transitions" by visiting our website at this communicate.
I term to come to the continued gifts of WIIS to untainted perspectives and new resources addressing new religious movements.
