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Polycentric Leadership / 6-June-2025

Reimagining Missions: Paradigms Paths & Partnerships

GUEST POST / CASE STUDY BY KIRK FRANKLIN Facing momentous change, missional leaders and practitioners face daunting complexities and remarkable new opportunities. Long-held patterns of sending and receiving are giving way to vibrant, interdependent, collaborative efforts spanning languages, cultures, contexts and continents. Instead of relying solely on inherited structures or leadership models of a bygone […]

Polycentric Leadership / 3-September-2021

Polycentrism in the Missio Dei

Kirk Franklin1, Nelus Niemandt1 Structures for mission have been under review as a result of many factors. In particular have been the widening influences of globalisation, and to a lesser degree, glocalisation. Various models of leadership praxis and structures have been proposed along the way. As Christianity moved farther away from the Christendom model of […]

Polycentric Leadership / 3-September-2021

OCMS Lecture Topic 5 – Case Studies

Lecture Series on ‘Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership’ OXFORD CENTRE FOR MISSION STUDIES Video series that features missiologists who will consider missional polycentrism along missional and theological lines in a world where Christian mission is adapting in a rapidly changing polycentric world.   About the Lecturers Dr. Joseph Handley is the president of A3. Previously, he was […]

Polycentric Leadership / 2-September-2021

A Case Study: A Journey of Leading in Polycentric Theory and Practice in Mission

by Kirk FranklinOCMS, UK Abstract Leadership and governance structures for any organisations involved in God’s mission need to come under review because of the growing influences of the interconnected globalised world. As Christianity moved farther away from the Christendom model of centralised control to other models of leadership and governance, other paradigms have been proposed […]

Polycentric Leadership / 1-September-2021

OCMS Lecture Topic 4 – Governance

Lecture Series on ‘Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership’ OXFORD CENTRE FOR MISSION STUDDIES Video series that features missiologists who will consider missional polycentrism along missional and theological lines in a world where Christian mission is adapting in a rapidly changing polycentric world.   About the Lecturers Dr. Joseph Handley is the president of Asian Access. Previously, he […]

Polycentric Leadership / 27-August-2021

OCMS Lecture Topic 3 – Perspectives & Tensions

Lecture Series on ‘Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership’ Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Video series that features missiologists who will consider missional polycentrism along missional and theological lines in a world where Christian mission is adapting in a rapidly changing polycentric world.   About the Lecturers Dr. Joseph Handley is the president of Asian Access. Previously, he […]

Polycentric Leadership / 22-August-2021

OCMS Lecture Topic 2 – Biblical & Theological Insights

Lecture Series on ‘Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership’ Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Video series that features missiologists who will consider missional polycentrism along missional and theological lines in a world where Christian mission is adapting in a rapidly changing polycentric world.   About the Lecturers Dr. Joseph Handley is the president of Asian Access. Previously, he […]

Polycentric Leadership / 17-August-2021

OCMS Lecture Topic 1 – Definitions

Lecture Series on ‘Polycentric Theology, Mission, and Mission Leadership’ Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Video series that features missiologists who will consider missional polycentrism along missional and theological lines in a world where Christian mission is adapting in a rapidly changing polycentric world.   About the Lecturers Dr. Joseph Handley is the president of Asian Access. Previously, he […]

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