Titus on Mission

This blog is a convening place for commentary and discussion of mission.  Topics include ecumenical mission theology, congregational mission, mission in theological education, mission developments in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, issues in the current Anglican crisis, inter-religious relations, mission leaders, mission in the news, mission in liturgy, mission in the arts.  In short, the works!  Please let me know if you’re interested in particular topics that need commentary.

I welcome your e-mails, but I especially welcome your comments entered on the blog, for that is how we can get discussion underway.

Currently I am Principal of Edwardes College, a church undergraduate and graduate institution in Peshawar, Pakistan.  As a mission activist in the Episcopal Church, I have mission experience in Zimbabwe, where I pastored the rural Bonda Church District; India, where I was born and grew up, in Jabalpur and Mussoorie; and various settings in the USA, most relevantly in inner-city Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I was rector of St. Peter’s Church.  Past chair of the Standing Commission on World Mission and active in the Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission, I’ve taught mission studies at the Seminary of the Southwest, where I was president, General Seminary, where I was academic dean, Episcopal Divinity School, and Gaul Theological College in Harare.  For lots more and a collection of publications, please visit my website.

Going Global with God: Reconciling Mission in a World of Difference, my most recent book, is just out from  from Morehouse, an imprint of Church Publishing, New York.  An article, “Mission is Ministry in the Dimension of Difference: A Definition for the 21st Century,” appeared in the October 2010 issue of International Bulletin of Missionary Research.  Recently I was a consultant for Continuing Indaba, the Listening Process of the Anglican Communion, which  involved me in consultations in Delhi, Barbados and Virginia over the past year.  In April 2011 I concluded two years as Interim Pastor of the Church of St. Simon the Cyrenian in New Rochelle, New York.

I change the blog header picture from time to time.  The current picture is of the Old Hall complex at Edwardes College in Peshawar.  The personal picture above is taken in Cape Town, South Africa, on the morning of a meeting my wife Jane and I had with Desmond Tutu.