The Guest Editor introduces the contents of the third special issue on Psychology and Missions published by the Journal of Psychology and Theology. The necessity and place of pre-experimental thinking and theorizing is emphasized as is the continuing need to move efforts more speedily toward empirical research on issues relating to missions and mental health.
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