Featured Ethnodoxologist: Elsen Portugal

Name: Elsen Portugal Organizations/Affiliations: GEN Board member; Wycliffe Global Alliance; Gospel Light Baptist Church, Hot Springs, AR; SIL Brazil; Junta de Missões Nacionais (Brazilian National Mission Board) – JMN; Horizontes Latin America; Ph.D. Candidate at B. H. Carroll Theological Institute. How did you get started in ethnodoxology?  I had been involved in missions and in music in sort…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Robin Harris

Name: Robin Harris Organizations/Affiliations: President, Global Ethnodoxology Network (GEN); Director, Center for Excellence in World Arts at Dallas International University; Arts Consultant and member of the International Arts Leadership Team with SIL International How did you get started in ethnodoxology?  During our decade of work in Siberia, I observed that in our multiethnic church (Russian…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Hilary Davis

Name: Hilary Davis How did you get started in ethnodoxology?  I first discovered, intuitively, the need for ethnodoxology while living on the Yakama Nation reservation, where I observed the lack of indigenous Christian worship and also the way that artistic expression brought my students alive in a way nothing else did. What has been one…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Brian Schrag

Name: Brian Schrag Organizations/Affiliations: Ethnomusicology and Arts Coordinator, SIL International; Founder, Center for Excellence in World Arts; GEN VP of Education and Training How did you get started in ethnodoxology? By being friends with people who made up the word and then built the network: Paul Neeley, Robin Harris, and more. I came alongside what…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Jill Ford

Name: Jill Ford Organizations/Affiliations: All Nations Christian College Arts Release previously known as Resonance Arts/WEC: www.facebook.com/loveartsrelease World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Arts Plus Europe Christian Artists Seminar How did you get started in ethnodoxology? My journey in ethnodoxology began through my working partnership with Ian Collinge (of Arts Release), who introduced me to the concept…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Josh Davis

Name: Josh Davis Organizational Affiliation: Executive Director, Proskuneo Ministries [bringing nations together in worship]  Co-founder, Multicultural Worship Leaders Network How did you get started in ethnodoxology? Google! Well, my growing up years gave me the interest and the background. Involved in music already from age 4 and active on worship teams at an early age,…

Featured Ethnodoxologist: Ron Man

Name: Ron Man Organizational Affiliation: Director, Worship Resources International; Pastor of Worship/Missionary in Residence, First Evangelical Church, Memphis, Tennessee How did you get started in ethnodoxology? I lived overseas for 10 years at 4 different times, but always in German-speaking Europe. God used my education (music studies and later seminary) and church experiences (as a…