The world has changed much since earlier Western missionaries set sail across the seas. And as a new millennium dawns, even greater global and cultural changes are overtaking us. Yet missions has remained much the same.In <EM>Changing the Mind of Missions</EM> James F. Engle and William A. Dyrness offer a courageous analysis of the challenges facing North American and other Western Christian missions:<UL><LI>How can we work within a world context that is shifting from modernity to postmodernity?<LI>How can we reverse our assumption that missions means going from "here" to "there"?<LI>How can we recapture the vitality and comprehensiveness of the gospel for the complex plight of today's world?<LI>How can we reexamine our commitments to programs and strategies in light of the baseline fact that we are engaged in God's mission?</UL>Here is a book that is sure to spark conversation among missionaries, students of missions, mission leaders and church mission committees. It points a way forward with the goal of increasing the spread of the gospel by every means possible to every corner of our world.