This article reflects on post-WWII developments and the current state of church-related diaconal initiatives in Japan. Pioneering Christians have made significant contributions to development social welfare since Meiji Era (1868–1912). Despite still being a radical minority around only 1 percent Japan’s population, nationwide network Japanese Christian churches, educational institutions, organi...

The Emerging Church is one of the more interesting new movements in the religious landscape of the United States today. The Emerging Church has come out of US Evangelicalism, which has found itself in crisis, with a diminishing number of young people remaining in the church and a general popular impression of being intolerant, judgmental, and right-wing. Many in the Emerging Church are attempti...

Abstract This original research paper discusses Bishop Albert Bereczky’s (1893-1966) first contacts with revivalism, especially his spiritual conversion experience during adolescent years. Bereczky, of the Danubian Church District from 1948 to 1958, was one most significant, and yet controversial persons Reformed in Hungary 20th Century. From a popular preacher Revival Movement 1920s, church pl...