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Landscape is CMS's new online magazine giving you a deeper look at the world of mission. Canvassing theology, culture, and missiology, Landscape will take you around the globe and enrich your understanding of mission today.

If you have any questions or ideas email us on landscape@cms.org.au

September 2009
  • Australian idol? Idolatry down-under and beyond

    Idolatry is part of the DNA of every worldview on the planet. Rev Dr David Williams, ex- missionary to Kenya and currently CMS-Australia's Development and Training Secretary, shows us how idolatry has been the constant struggle of God's people since the Old Testament days — and takes a good hard look at our Australian culture to pinpoint some of our biggest idols.

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  • Rani's story

    In a poor country in South Asia, one young woman has pushed the boundaries of village life and is fashioning a new life on her own terms in the bustle and bright lights of the big city. Ex-CMS missionary Fiona tells Rani's story in this powerful photo essay.

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  • Growing up in-between

    Where is home when your passport doesn't express your (multi)cultural identity? Alix Baumgartner speaks to three missionary kids, now back in Australia for university, about what it means to grow up caught between cultures.

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  • Frontline Nigeria

    With Muslim-Christian relations in Nigeria in and out of the press over the last decade, CMS Federal Secretary John Thew sat down with Josiah Fearon, Bishop of the Diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, for an exclusive video interview. Bishop Fearon gives us an insider's perspective on the challenges faced by the Nigerian church, and explains how 'friendship evangelism' can open doors with our Muslim neighbours.

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  • In review

    CMS-NSW General Secretary John Bales reviews New Testament scholar Eckhard J. Schnabel's Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods, and finds some surprising but often convincing conclusions about missionary work in Paul's time and in our own.

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