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The “Real” Meaning of Christmas

If we really want to get back to the origins of the festival, we should consider getting uproariously drunk in front of a blazing fire and celebrating the return of the sun.

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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Religion

Learn from people who have been there and done that.

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Mission Work and Language Learning

Language learning 1905 style!

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The Minimum Unit of Scripture

Scripture isn’t a series of isolated stories that can be stripped from their context; it is a canon of books which tell a connected story and which can only be fully understood in relationship to each other. 

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O wad some Power the giftie gie us

Much of this is the Christian equivalent of spin and corporate business talk. Meaningless except to those schooled in the jargon.

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Posts from the Past: The Homeless Gospel

You cannot impose a language or cultural standards (dress, music, use of time) on people saying that this is Christian language or culture. There is no such thing – the Christian faith simply does not work that way.

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Can The West Be Converted

Newbigin was right when he said the mission field of Europe is harder than India. I would add that Europe is a much harder mission field than probably anywhere else in the world.

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Disciples Make Disciples

Training in cross-cultural evangelism, language learning and what have you is important, but on their own these things won’t do.

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The Politics of Bible Translation

There is lots of stone throwing about translations as if one is wildly superior to the others, but often that is about tribes and not the translation.

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Posts from the Past: Aaaaaargh!

Typing the title of this post from 2015 correctly, was a bit of a challenge! Ecclesiology and individualism are two of the themes that I’ve returned to repeatedly over the years, so here goes again! I’ll admit it, there are some things that I see on the internet that really bother me. This morning in […]