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Do all cultures share the same values?

A recent tweet from Jeremy Tate, founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test (CLT): Classical education is fundamental an educational [sic] it what it means to be fully human. It is not a politically conservative alternative to the already politically hijacked mainstream education. Instead, it is an education in...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 30, 2023 5:45 PM

Sawi he spoke

Lately, for the eight-year-old's bedtime story, I have been reading the book Peace Child by Don Richardson. In 1962, Richardson, his wife Carol, and their infant son went with Regions Beyond Missionary Union to the Sawi, a people who live in the sago palm swamps along the Kronkel River in...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 16, 2014 12:17 AM

Teaching reading to adults: Workshop April 23, 25, 27, 2013

Tulsa is famous for some high-profile evangelists, but you may not know about a low-key missions organization with a global reach based right across the street from the River West Festival Park. This week, they're offering training to help you love and serve your neighbors who can't read. Literacy and...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 22, 2013 9:22 PM

Get "Perspectives" on world missions -- classes start this week

It's easy for Christians to get tangled up in everyday life or politics and to lose sight (or never gain sight) of what God is doing around the world to redeem a people for Himself "from every tribe, tongue, and nation," much less what we could be doing to participate...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 7, 2013 12:00 PM

Banking basics and missions

Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, one of the area's largest thrift institutions, has been running radio ads lately about their humble origins -- a cigar box in the desk drawer of a Central High School teacher, as teachers pooled funds to help one another meet their financial goals. In the US,...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 8, 2009 1:24 PM