Episodes

Thursday Jan 09, 2025
S5:E17 What do you get when you mix Animism and Islam? Folk Islam. Tribal Series
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Today we discuss how Tribal or animistic believes combine with Islam in what is a very commonly encountered form of Islam... Folk Islam.
Resources:
- The Flaw of the Excluded Middle - Paul Hiebert
- Understanding Folk Religion by Paul G. Hiebert, R. Daniel Shaw, Tite Tienou
- A good handbook for working with this worldview, very thorough.
- Bridges to Islam: A Christian Perspective on Folk Islam by Phil Parshall is a classic.
- The Muslim Majority: Folk Islam and the Seventy Percent by Robin Dale Hadaway
- Communicating Christ Among Folk Religionists by By Gailyn Van Rheenan

Thursday Nov 14, 2024
S5:E11 Engaging Tribal Cultures with the Hope of Jesus - part 2
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
In our series on engaging with Tribal people groups, we continue our interview with Jon as we talk about understanding and engaging communities rooted in Tribal religions.

Thursday Nov 07, 2024
S5:E10 Engaging Tribal Cultures with the Hope of Jesus - part 1
Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Thursday Nov 07, 2024
Kicking off our series on engaging with Tribal people groups, we sit down with a man who spent decades in Africa bringing the hope of Jesus to communities deeply rooted in Tribal religions.
This episode marks the final letter in our THUMB series:
T - Tribal
H - Hindu
U - Unreligious
M - Muslim
B - Buddhist

Thursday Sep 22, 2022
S3:E2 Helping Cultural Christians Realize They Are Not Christians
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Have you ever had one of those conversations with someone where they think they are a Christian, but you can tell from their life they don't know what it means to follow Christ? Listen in as we talk with Jay about how he deals with those conversations overseas and on his campus. Also, you'll hear about his overseas experience and what his first O-week was like as a Volunteer.