Bob Bixby has shared an interesting interview with expert missiologist, Dr. Hesselgrave.
My undergrad degree was Cross-cultural Christian Missions. I cut my missiological teeth on Hesselgrave’s books.
John Morehead, a professor at Salt Lake Theological Seminary and author of a cross-cultural mission blog, has read Hesselgrave, too. But we have yet to explore more where we see eye to eye on key issues.
I just thought that Hesselgrave’s latest heart issues on missions is interesting.
More later.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention, Todd. I posted a comment on the blog where Hesselgrave’s article is mentioned.
As you and others can see there I read Hesselgrave’s piece prior to its distribution, and while I have great respect for his earlier work in cross-cultural missions and contextualization, and find this applicable not only in non-Western contexts with primal and world religions, as his chapter’s inclusion in Encountering New Religious Movements makes clear, such concepts are applicable to new religions in the West as well. If you or anyone else using more traditional counter-cult approaches of heresy identification and refution would like to explore such things there are plenty of resources for consideration. Perhaps then we might see more “eye to eye,” or perhaps, as I argue, a paradigm shift is in order beyond heresy refutation to cross-cultural missiology is the only thing that will enable fresh perspectives.
At any rate, I detect a growing conservatism in Hesselgrave’s views on theology, Christian boundary definitions and maintenance, and in missions approaches in general, and his increasing conservatism seems to be more prevalent in evangelical missiology in general as evidenced in the Evangelical Theological Society with increasing concerns over syncretism in relation to contextualization. While I am sensitive to such concerns, I agree more with scholars like Terry Muck wherein the need for the 21st century is more risk-taking and daring in missions and contextualization, not more conservativism, which may foster blind spots on cultural assumptions in Western missions.