Contents Editorial Editor’s notes 111 Articles Locating and leaving Babylon: A missional reading of Revelation 17 and 18 in light of ancient 112 and contemporary political contexts Dean Flemming The culture problem: How the honor/shame issue got the wrong end of the anthropological stick 127 Johannes Merz The Pauline collection, church partnerships, and the mission of the church in the 21st century 142 Michael L. Sweeney The trinitarian dance with culture: Trinity as the missiological optic for understanding culture 154 John Smith Applying the principles of social action in contemporary Christian mission in Africa 169 Benjamin Diara and Favour Uroko The Spirit and the poor in West Africa and Tanzania: A Pentecostal response to David J. Bosch’s 181 “mission in the wake of the Enlightenment” Anna Marie Droll Intercultural, postcolonial, experiential: A case study in forming congregational mission leaders 192 in seminaries Kimberly Gonxhe and B. Hunter Farrell Book Reviews General works Christopher Flanders. Devoted to Christ: Missiological Reflections in Honor of 207 Sherwood G. Lingenfelter Darrell Whiteman Evelyn and Richard Hibbert. Walking Together on the Jesus Road: Discipling in 208 Intercultural Contexts John F. Easterling Religions Ayman Ibrahim and Ant Greenham. Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of 209 Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts Matthew Bennett Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ. Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist 210 R. Daniel Shaw Spirituality and worship Amalraj, John, Geoffrey W. Hahn, and William D. Spirituality in Mission: Embracing 212 the Lifelong Journey Charles A. Warner Theology Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen. The Distinctive Identity of the Church: A Constructive Study of 213 the Post-Christendom Theologies of Lesslie Newbigin and John Howard Yoder Sung Bauta Africa Wanjiru M. Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in 214 African Perspective David Ngaruiya Asia R. S. Sugirtharajah. Jesus in Asia 215 James E. Taneti Books and media received