RALPH WINTER
Dr Winter, founder of the US Center for World Mission and one of the great missionary strategists of our time, spoke this evening at the Perspectives class that we're hosting at Cornerstone. He was wonderfully engaging -- definitely a man with ideas -- but also a fairly decent grasp of chaos theory! I was pleasantly surprised to hear him advocating a more holistic approach to missions than what I expected. And he spoke quite a bit about the need for intellectual development among Christians as a means of countering secularized western education.

Following the class three of us cornered him for 15 minutes or so and got to ask him all kinds of questions about educational development and its role in missions. As a sidebar, one of the interesting comments he made was in regard to intelligent design theorists. How come none of the intelligent design people see an evil design at work in creation?