Articles by Jim Harries:

• Jim's PhD Thesis: Pragmatic theory applied to Christian mission in Africa: with special reference to Luo responses to 'bad' in Gem, Kenya
  
  
• Is Mission Diverse, or is it all just Money? An Examination of Western Mission to Africa [pdf], By Jim Harries and Fred Lewis, WCIU, Pasadena, California. To be presented at EMS conference in South-West USA, March 2010.
  
  
• International Development Without Money? Some Theological Reflections [pdf] Soon to be published as part of the book: The Goal of International Development: God's Will on Earth as It Is in Heaven.
  
  
• Empowerment or Impoverishment? An Evalution of the Impact of Development Agencies and Church-Missionary Activity in the Northwest Province of Zambia [pdf]
  
  
• The Kingdom of God; The Pearl, and the Visitor Centre? The Idea of Vulnerable Mission
  
  
• 'The Name of God in Africa' and Related Contemporary Theological, Developmental and Linguistic Concerns [pdf]
  
  
• Mzungu! Mzungu!: an appeal for vulnerable western missionaries to Africa [pdf]
  
  
• You Don't Know Kiswahili: reflections on a student's comment [pdf]
  
  
• Vulnerable Mission: a 'normalisation' of Christian mission practices in anticipation of a post-colonial situation [pdf]
  
  
• Inter-cultural Communication in the African Mission Context: an examination of practice. [pdf] This article is published by the Edinburgh 2010 conference organisation, under their transversal topics listings, at this location.
  
  
• The Great Delusion: Post-Colonial Language Policy in Africa Reviewed [pdf]
  
  
• Talking for Money, Looking for Money: the donor industry as fulfillment of ancient African religious ideals, in missiological perspective [pdf]
  
  
• Heart Led Development: An East African Study [pdf]
  
  
• Visits to African Indigenous Churches [pdf]
  
  
• Visits to African Indigenous Churches Number 2. 2008. [pdf]
  
  
• Prerogative of Imitation in Cross-Cultural Mission [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Imitation in Cross-Cultural Mission: Discussions in an African Context, published at www.lausanneworldpulse.com
  
  
• The Immorality of Aid to the 'Third World' [pdf]
  
  
• Biblical Hermeneutics in Relation to Conventions of Language Use in Africa   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Course For Yala and Siaya Theological Centres [pdf]
  
  
• Pragmatic Linguistics applied to Bible Translation, Projects and Inter-cultural Relationships: an African focus  [pdf]
  
  
• Language in Education, Mission and Development in Africa: Appeals for Local Tongues and Local Contexts   (Publication Location)
  
  
• The Effectiveness of Short-term Mission to Africa in Respect to Westernising, Christianising and Dependence Creation
  
  
• Compromising on Missionary Vulnerability: A Response to Critics
  
  
• Mission to the South, Words to the North: Reflections on Communication in the Church by a Northerner in the South [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Providence and Power Structures in Mission and Development Initiatives [pdf]   
  
  
• 'Material Provision' or 'Preaching the Gospel': Reconsidering 'Holistic' (Integral) Mission [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Issues of Race in Relating to Africa: Linguistic and Cultural Insights that Could Avoid Traps
  
  
• Difficulties in Giving: What to give, how to give, why to give, who to give, when to give, if to give?
  
  
• European Theology Hits Africa: When the Theological Rubber Hits the African Road - How Europe Can be an Aid to African Development
  
  
• Vulnerable Mission as an Alternative to Failing Aid Paradigms: Facing Reality on Reaching Africa (Seminar Series) [pdf]
  
  
• Elder's Counsel
  
  
• Overcoming 'Dependency' in the African Church: The Role of African Languages
  
  
• Intercultural Dialogue: An Overrated Means of Acquiring Understanding - Examined in the Context of Christian Mission to Africa [pdf]
  
  
• Pasipo Kujua Mila yake Huwezi Kujadiliana na Mtu Barabara
  
  
• African Economics, and its Implications for Mission and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Power and Ignorance on the Mission Field or 'The Hazards of Feeding Crowds' [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• The Magical Worldview in the African Church: What is Going On? [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Mzungu alisema, Mwafrika alisema: sera za lugha zinazotakikana kanisani kwa Bara ya Afrika [pdf]
  
  
• Uvumbuzi wa Isimu Amali - kwa Wajaluo, Kenya uhusiano wa lugha na utamaduni wake [pdf]
  
  
• The Futility of Western Teaching on Development in the Third World (Africa): comparing magical and scientific worldviews [pdf]
  
  
• Is Secularism a Mystical Religion? Questions of Translation in Relation to Millennium Goals and Mission in Africa [pdf]
  
  
• A Linguistic Case for the necessity of Enculturation in Theological and Economic Teaching based on the Shape of Words: including a case study comparing Sub-Saharan Africa with the West.   (Go to issue 18.)
  
  
• Good-by-Default and Evil in Africa [pdf]
  
  
• How One Scholarship in One Language Cannot Cross Continents: shape theory of language applied to intercultural communication between Europe and Africa. [pdf]
  
  
• Partnership, Cooperation and Vulnerability: building a solid foundation for mission praxis in Africa [pdf]   (Publication Location)
  
  
• Kumbe, Maneno yanayo Umbo! [pdf]