Go boldly: From world mission to out-of-this-world mission...

With billionaires racing to colonise Mars and build orbital resorts, one theologian is asking: “Who will bring the gospel to outer space?”

Stephen Stallard is author of “The Final Frontier of Mission: Space Tourism, Lunar Colonies, and the Future of Interplanetary Mission” – a chapter in the book New Frontiers in Missiology (2025).

Stallard told en: “If people are going to take their sin with them into outer space, then Christians must follow with the gospel. Outer space is the final frontier of mission.”