Gordon Showell-Rogers

CDI International Director

Articles by Gordon Showell-Rogers

27 Jun, 2025 11:15 EDT

Europe Church & Missions

[Book review] The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Eyewitness Account

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

After 2,000 years of retelling, the Jesus story has too often lost its shocking and revolutionary power. Bear Grylls’ book tells the story in the imagined words of 5 Bible characters, re-capturing the powerful drama of the human and the divine encounters. Grylls’ fame, the beautiful presentation, the imaginative first-person narrative, the use of Aramaic and Hebrew names, and the vivid storytelling all serve to remind us that these were real people, in real places, at a real moment in history.
19 Jun, 2025 21:40 EDT

US & Canada Church & Missions

[Book review] Together, The Great Collaboration

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

The authors have discovered and put into practice a series of simple yet profound biblical principles about relationships, collaboration and networks. These principles are transferable across cultures and sectors. The book’s content focuses on their passion and vision for church planting. But it’s not a stretch to apply the lessons about collaborative networks into other areas of Christian service.
25 Aug, 2024 20:08 EDT

Latin America Church & Missions

[Book review] Christian Worldview & Transformation: Spirituality, Reason & Social Order

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

Part of Regnum’s ‘Global Voices: Latin America’ series, it’s a tightly argued series of essays that examine the interplay between the long-accepted concept of ‘worldview’ and transformation. Its theological perspectives point out that ‘Jesus always lived on the edge of the empire,’ ‘The gospel concerns nothing less than all things (Col. 1/16-20) and the church’s mission concerns nothing less than all things.’
2 Aug, 2024 07:08 EDT

US & Canada Family & Children

[Book review] Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror: Learning from stories of heartbreak and hope

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

‘Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror’ by Karen Springs is both a sobering introduction to life with deeply troubled children and a passionate appeal to provide permanent family solutions for orphans and vulnerable children.
12 Jul, 2024 08:07 EDT

Church & Missions

[Book review] Let Us Draw Near - Biblical Foundations of Worship: 'should be required reading for the global Church'

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

In Ron Man’s words, ‘There is a biblical framework for our worship, but also much cultural flexibility,’ and ‘There is an unchanging message, but many ways to communicate and celebrate it.’ And the question for us all to consider is, ‘How to be biblically faithful and culturally relevant in our worship.’
29 Mar, 2024 10:03 EDT

Opinion

Easter – the events that change everything

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

All religious festivals provide opportunities to think about God and eternity. Easter provides a particular opportunity to think about Jesus: who He is and what He has done.
22 Mar, 2024 11:03 EDT

Middle East Society & Culture Church & Missions

[Book review] Covered Glory: The Face of Honor and Shame in the Muslim World

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

This disturbing book is extraordinarily inspiring: within all the painful stories (real stories, full of shame), there’s extraordinary life, hope and redemption.
15 Jan, 2024 19:01 EST

Society & Culture

[Book review] Divided: why we’re living in an age of walls

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

Believing in a Creator who made all people equal and in a Saviour who is building a church of every tribe and nation, then Christians should surely be taking the lead in addressing the divisions of our deeply polarised world.
22 Dec, 2023 16:12 EST

Opinion

God chose to come into this world without status or power

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

As the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus approaches, friends and I have been thinking about Jesus’ words recorded in Mark 10:13-16. For years, I thought that ‘receiving the Kingdom of God like a little child’ referred to innocence – or to being trusting. Maybe it does include that. I, for one, feel I have a lot to learn about genuinely trusting God, in our deeply disturbed world. But someone recently pointed out to me that the main defining characteristic of children in first century Palestin
12 Dec, 2023 06:12 EST

Europe Society & Culture

[Book Review] God Is Not a White Man: and Other Revelations

By Gordon Showell-Rogers

McDonald has created an extraordinarily beautiful and illuminating tapestry from the Bible’s story intertwined with her life experience as a black British woman of Nigerian heritage. It’s a deeply personal book that is both a study of historical and contemporary racial realities and an exploration of how Christian theology has become very white.

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