J-CATS Japanese Contextual and Theological Studies
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Old Testament and Online Church with Kengoro Goto
Today we chat with Kengoro Goto, Old Testament scholar and leader of the online Japanese Christian community 'Lights Church', which can be accessed here: https://lights-church.com/en/home-2/
What is Ethnodoxology? With Roger Lowther
I speak with Artist and Missionary Roger Lowther about Ethnodoxology, contexutal worship in Japan, Music, Arts, and the Japan Consultation on Arts and Music in Missions (JCAMM) which will be held…
2025 Bonenkai!
Just a fun episode. What is Bonenkai? Mostly just cathartic ramblings with Jon and friend of the show Joe. If this isn't your thing return for more informative content in 2026!
Can foreigners become Japanese pastor? This missionary kid did.
Today I talk with Billy, a third generation missionary in Japan, no that's not true, Billy is not a missionary, he is a pastor within a Japanese denomination. He goes to pastor meetings and presents…
Looking at Christianity Today's articles on Shinto and Christianity
I look at Christianity Today's articles on Christianity and Shinto, parts of an interview of Tokyo Christian University's Yoichi Yamaguchi by Kazusa Okaya. Article Links:Shinto's Key Teachings:…
Want to study at a Japanese Christian university?
Today we talk with Morgen Hildebrand, a missionary from Kansas who completed a theology degree at Tokyo Christian University. She gives a number of fascinating insights to the way that Japanese…
Church Planting and Partnering Report from OMF
Today Chris Pain, Japan field director of OMF joins me to review a report on Church Planting and Partnering with Japanese pastors that OMF produced. You can download the report for free…
What do Japanese Pastors want missionaries to do? NOT do?
Kohei and I continue our conversation from last time. The first 20 minutes or so we talk about church models and Japan, the second half we look at some of the answers Japanese pastors gave at the…
From Embers to Flames, 2024 Evangelism Conference in Tokyo
Today we talk with Kohei, who helped out at Asian Access Japan's 2024 conference 'From Embers to Flames'. Did you know that, although Japan's Christian population is only about 1% of Japan, 99% of…
Zero to JLPT N1 in under 3 years of part-time study
Today I chat with Noah, a missionary who began self-studying Japanese two years before landing in Japan in early '24. He promptly passed the JLPT N2, and is awaiting his results from taking N1 in…
What books about Japan do missionaries read?
At the biennial Renown (formerly CPI) Conference hundreds of Japan-based missionaries gathered for networking, encouragement, and strategizing. While there JCATS held a survey asking 'what are your…
What do Japanese Christains think is attractive about Christianity?
at a denominational anniversary celebration in Sendai, I surveyed 34 attendees to ask what they find is attractive about Christianity. The results are in the video.
Rethinking Japanese church trappings and talking with Kentaro Matsuda
Today I have a conversation with pastor Kentaro Matsuda about how he reaches people who haven't lost their faith, but have stepped away from church. He recently translated Frank Viola's 'Pagan…
Evangelism in the context of Japanese Animism
Seminar presented by Dr. Martin Heisswolf at Ochanomizu Christian Center on August 17, 2024, for Kyuu Juu Kyuu -- talks on evangelizing the rest of the Japanese, sponsored by JCATS (Japanese…
5 Pillars of Shinto
In 1999 the Association of Shinto Shrines printed a pamphlet in English entitled Shinto Beliefs, I go over the 5 pillars, and talk a little bit more about Nishitani's Understanding Japaneseness,…
Trying to Understand Japaneseness - Looking at Kosuke Nishitani's Nipponjinron
Today we look at Kosuke Nishitani's 'Understanding Japaneseness' (link below). Nishitani argues that Maternal-Filial Affection is THE key point of a framework of Nipponjinron (think 'Japanology'). As…
Japanism
In today's video I examine and condense Mattari Seisho Labo's four-part series on Shichihei Yamamoto's Nihonkyo (Japanism). Nihonkyo is the idea that all Japanese adhere to an under the surface…
The Contextualized Sermon pt. II, examing a round-table discussion
In today's episode we look at a round-table discusison found in 'Senkyogaku Readings' the same collection from which the article 'the Sermon contextualized to Japan' discussed in the previous…
The Contextualized Sermon
What would a distinctly Japanese sermon sound like? What can missionaries adjust to make their sermons less Western and more in tune with the Japnese mind? In today's episode I look at Mitsuo…
S2E3 Wisdom from a 50 year veteran Japanese pastor
What is hard about ministry in Japan? What advice do you have for missionaries? My friend asked a Japanese pastor in his 70's these questions at a missionary and pastor meeting this week, and I…
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