Posts from the Past: A Guide To Mission Terminology
missio Dei: not only am I right, but God agrees with me (eg, an approach based on the missio Dei means…). This is the equivalent of playing the ‘God card’ in discussions about guidance. “God t...
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Who Do You Think You Is?
Translating "you" is not quite as simple as you might think it is....
Churches, Agencies, Relationships
Some random (and incomplete) thoughts about churches and mission agencies....
A Different Take On Bible Translation Statistics
Whichever way you look at it and with all of the possible caveats in place, there is still huge amount of Scripture translation work that remains. Suggestions that the task of Bible translation is cl...
A Natural We!
Sometimes translating the simplest of words can be more complicated than it might, at first, seem. ...
Posts from the Past: The Kouyanet Guide To Choosing A Bible Translation
You know a Bible is a good translation if your favourite people have endorsed it. After all, if they use this translation and they have a famous ministry, it must be good....
What Does a Bible Translation Team Look Like?
I stand in awe of the small groups of believers across the world, who at great personal cost are working to make the Bible available to their own people in their own language. ...
What Mission Theology Should Do!
How will we remind the church that it is more dangerous to be cautious than to be daring?...
When You Can’t See the Wood for The Missional Trees
Our best motivations, strategies and theologies can do nothing to heal a broken world - only Jesus can do that....
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
My observation is that mission theologians and academics speak a different language and have different concerns to mission practitioners....