An entirely subjective top 10 list of 2024 CDI opinions
Christian Daily International Opinion Editor counts down the top ten opinion themes for 2024 and the article that best represents each theme.
Christian Daily International Opinion Editor counts down the top ten opinion themes for 2024 and the article that best represents each theme.
The year 2024 marked the first full year of Christian Daily International’s coverage of events, developments and voices in the global Church. Among the more than 1,000 news articles published this year, here are 12 of the top stories.
Today marks the first anniversary since the launch of Christian Daily International (CDI) on December 12, 2023. The past year saw CDI covering a wide range of events, issues and voices from every region of the world, receiving endorsements from Christian leaders and even winning its first award.
The Rev. Jan C. Wessels, who serves as Co-General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) alongside Co-General Secretary Connie Main Duarte, recently shared some of his reflections with Christian Daily International about his personal experience at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne 4) in Incheon, Korea.
Rather than opportunities for evangelism, church growth, fundraising, or even as an individual's story, persecution is the missional activity of a faith community. The global Church needs a richer theology of persecution and suffering.
Churches' focus on the young and nuclear families has a danger of neglecting the elderly and other forms of family. Reflecting on her experience at Lausanne 4, an Asian doctor appeals to churches to take seriously the challenges of aging and isolation, not to forget, but to re-member them into the Body of Christ.
A Chinese virtual participant at Lausanne 4 reflects on her experience and encourages us to prioritize intimacy with God as a necessary precursor to participation in God’s mission. Missions activities ought to be an overflow of our intimate relationship with the Triune God,, In other words, let contemplation lead to action.
As our world continues to experience the push and pull factors of migration, it is important to pay attention to how each context is defining their missions in the new mission fields of former Christendom. It is also important not to use just one terminology to define the migration and missions experiences of all Majority World people. we need to continually adapt our understanding of missions as we continue to develop theologies of migration.