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Dr Kirk Franklin

Lecturer in Missional Leadership; and Centre for Missional Engagement

MEET Dr Kirk

Kirk grew up in Papua New Guinea (PNG) amongst the Kewa people as a missionary kid (MK). As an adult, he joined Wycliffe US as a media-communications specialist and served with SIL International and the local Bible Translation Association. While in PNG, Kirk met and married Christine from NSW who was teaching at SIL’s primary school. Later Kirk served with Wycliffe Australia in media-communications, governance and executive leadership roles.
From 2008-2020, Kirk was the Executive Director of the Wycliffe Global Alliance—comprised of over 100 organizations. Kirk is now involved in research, training and teaching where he draws upon his years of mission executive roles and leading organizational change in a global mission agency. Kirk uses an interdisciplinary approach through the fields of missiology, intercultural studies, missional leadership and globalization. Kirk and Christine attend Warrandyte Community Church. The Franklins have three adult married children and three grandsons.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • MA (Theology), University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • BA Honours (Theology), University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • BA (Intercultural Studies), Tabor Victoria

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Selected Publications

Franklin, Kirk and Niemandt, C.J.P. ‘Funding God’s Mission: Towards a Missiology of Generosity’, in Missionalia 43(3), 2015.

Franklin, Kirk and Niemandt, C.J.P. (Nelus). (2016).

‘Polycentrism in the Missio Dei’, in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 72(1), 2016.

Franklin, Kirk. ‘A Model for Leadership Communities in Global Contexts’, in Barentsen, Jack, van den Heuvel, Stephen. and Lin, Peirong (eds). The End of Leadership? Leadership and Authority at Crossroads, Vol. 4, Christian Perspectives on Leadership and Social Ethics. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.

Franklin, Kirk with Crough, Dave and Deb. Towards Global Missional Leadership. Oxford: Regnum, 2017.

Franklin, Kirk. ‘A Missiology of Progress: Assessing Advancement in the Bible Translation Movement’, in HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, 76(1), a5786, 2020.

Presentations

‘A Case Study: A Journey of Leading in Polycentric Theory and Practice in Mission’, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK, 15 September 2020

‘Nationalism, Embeddedness and Identity in the Paradigm Shift from Western Missions to Global Mission: Reflections, Analysis and Implications for Today’, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK, 30 June 2020.

‘Global Missional Collaboration’, Inter-mission seminar, Oslo, Norway, 5 November 2019.

‘The Role of Missional Leadership in Creating Third Spaces’, Global Megatrends and God’s Mission’, Finnish Lutheran Mission, Ryttylä, Finland, 25 January 2019.

‘What is Our Theology of Advancement and Progress and What Milestones are Imminent?’, Forum of Bible Agencies International, Albuquerque, USA, 2 May 2019.

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