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. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au Got a PhD in a discipline like Philosophy or History and wondering how God can use you on his mission field? ‘Missionary-academic’ Nathan Lovell describes how modern technology has changed the face of academia, and how scholars in a huge range of fields can make a unique contribution to the spread of the kingdom. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape004/missionaryacademic.html CMS has been in partnership with the Anglican Church of Chile for almost a decade through missionaries like Michael and Jo Charles, Tim and Sally Swan, and Stephen and Rebecca Shead, who teach at the Centre for Pastoral Studies (CEP) in Santiago. CMS interNATIONAL Ministry Partners Pato and Dagmar Oyarzun, based in the Chilean city of Vina del Mar, talk about the transformation taking place as Chilean leaders grow in their confidence in understanding the scriptures and the flow-on effects this has in the local church. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape004/chile.html When Christians in the West consider the issue of mission partnership, are they too readily influenced by a model that holds little weight in the rest of the world? CMS-A Federal Secretary John Thew has found Mary T Lederleitner's new book Cross-Cultural Partnerships the perfect jumping-off point for reflecting on this crucial question. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape004/review.html The spiritual poverty of Europe. The strategic value of student ministry. The challenge to risk everything for Christ. This was the order of the day when Rowan Kemp, Staff Team Leader for the Sydney University Evangelical Union, sat down to speak openly and honestly with CMS missionaries Paul and Sandra King and Andrew and Sarah Lubbock. This exclusive video interview is unmissable for anyone who is serious about the state of world mission today. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape003/conversation.html It's safe to say that the vast majority of Australian churches have experienced the pain of having someone leave their gathering. Dr Richard Hibbert, Director of the School of Cross-Cultural Mission at Sydney Missionary and Bible College (SMBC), travels to Bulgaria to shed some light on why people leave churches both in Australia and in mission contexts. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape003/churches.html It’s one of the things CMS workers are most commonly asked about when they’re back in Australia: what is it really like raising children on the mission field? In South East Asia, a mother is busy doing just that. She takes some time to give us a personal (and colourful) insight into raising a ‘Third Culture Kid’ on the field. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape003/movingkids.html Ever wondered how you can share the gospel effectively to transform twenty-first century minds and hearts? Matthew Moffitt, a CMS member currently completing a ministry apprenticeship with the Sydney University Evangelical Union, certainly has – and he finds some invaluable lessons in Paul Hiebert’s Transforming Worldviews. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape003/review.html The ceaseless ebb and flow of human culture and the unchanging, eternal word of God...they don't seem like natural bedfellows. But CMS missionary Andrew Buchanan argues that not only can we take culture seriously when we read our Bibles - we must. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape002/buchanan.html Does the cultural make-up of your church match up with the demographics of your area? In an exciting new mini-documentary, we take a tour around Sydney to see how local churches are responding to the changing face of our city, and how cross-cultural ministry here fits together with mission in other places. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape002/backyardmission.html Mission support goes online! Discover a great line-up of missionaries' blogs that are sure to become some of your favourite websites - and really help you to pray and care for missionaries across the globe. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape002/blogs.html A hearty mission meal that leaves a bitter aftertaste: get the lowdown on one of the seminal works on mission in the Bible, as Malcolm Reid reviews Christopher Wright's The Mission of God. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape002/review.html Take a good hard look with ex-missionary Rev Dr David Williams at the idolatry that poisons every world view on the planet, from Israel's golden calves to some of our most powerful Australian idols. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape001/australianidol.html Hear CMS missionary Fiona tell Rani's story in a moving and poignant photo essay: a young woman's tale of pushing the boundaries in a poor country in South Asia http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape001/ranisstory.html 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. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape001/growingupinbetween.html 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. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape001/frontlinenigeria.html 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. http://www.landscape.cms.org.au/landscape001/review.html