Community Arts for God’s Purposes, a condensed version of Brian Schrag’s Creating Local Arts Together field manual, is now available in Spanish and Portuguese, with Indonesian and French coming soon. This affordable, slim volume is also available for download in high-quality digital format from William Carey Publishing. Check out the volume descriptions in English here,…
Arts and Trauma Healing course to be held at Dallas International University Since trauma is fast becoming one of the most urgent human problems in the world, cross-cultural workers need to be able to respond in restorative ways to traumatized individuals and communities. In Dallas International University’s graduate-level course, Arts and Trauma Healing, students learn…
Hello members of GEN, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as GEN’s new Resource Manager and ongoing Social Media Coordinator. My name is Sam B (for security reasons, I would prefer to leave it at that), and I am an alumnus of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics. Although I love…
Worship Leader Magazine, with a readership of over 80,000, has announced our newly designed GEN website as one of the Best of 2016 Editor’s Picks in the category of Digital Worship Resources: Global/Missional Worship. A special shout out to the team that created this website. Take the tour: We’ve designed this website in hopes of…
GEN has collaborated a second time with the International Orality Network to produce a volume of the Orality Journal dedicated to equipping people to engage local arts in oral contexts. You’ll find articles and pictures from many GEN members and other ethnoarts proponents, artists, and scholars working around the world. If you like this material,…
A tremendous team has been working for nearly a year to make this happen: Matt and Carol Long, friends and colleagues from DIU in Dallas, TX, did the heavy lifting in terms of the website building. Matt did a lot of programming in order to develop some of the special features you’ll see. Jim Null,…
Thomas Nelson announced today that the title Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century received the Gold Award for Education Resources in the third annual Illumination Book Awards. Together with his team of multi-disciplined scholars, writers, and leaders, general editor Dr. Brian C. Stiller provides a comprehensive history of evangelical Christianity…
The GEN Board welcomes Josh Davis this year! The entire Board met May 20-21, 2016, in Dallas, TX.
GEN has collaborated with the International Orality Network to produce a volume of the Orality Journal focused exclusively on the use of ethnoarts in oral contexts. You’ll find articles and pictures from many GEN associates and other ethnoarts proponents, artists, and scholars working around the world. Look for a second Arts & Orality journal volume…