Tom A SteffenTom Steffen (DMiss, Biola University) is a professor emeritus of intercultural studies at Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor-shame, and business as mission. He and his family spent fifteen years in the Philippins with New Tribes Mission before coming to Biola. Tom's books include Reconnecting God's Story to Ministry: Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle) and Worldview-based Storytelling: The Integration of Storytelling, Ritual, and Symbol in the Orality Movement.