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Do Not Use

Learning to Speak Human

Bible Translation is essentially about communicating the Gospel; finding ways to re-express the eternal truths of the Scriptures in a new languages. However, communicating the Gospel is not merely a task for the specialist, it is something that every Christian is called to be involved in. Brian Russell has started a series of posts on […]

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Bible Translation Theology

Theology and Bible Translation

For the last week or so, I’ve been meaning to write something more substantial in response to the comments about theological bias in Bible Translation which were raised by my recent post on translation and unity. However, in the interim, Mike Sangrey has placed an excellent post on his blog Exegetitor which covers the same […]

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Christian Life Mission Theology

Sanctification

Brian Russell has just made an excellent posting on sanctification. I think that we can begin to rearticulate the holiness message for the 21st century in the inner cites (and around the world) by committing to speaking about holiness in positive terms rather than primarily in the negative. Holiness is not merely about the elimination […]

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Bible Translation

Bible Translation Blogs

I’ve just spent a few minutes reordering the links section (in the left hand side bar). I’ve included a section on Bible Translation Blogs; this includes a couple of blogs specifically related to Bible translation and by Bible translators and others by people working to support Bible translation around the world. While I was using […]

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Church: World Mission Theology

Christian Centre of Gravity

This is an essay which I wrote for my Contemporary Theologies of Mission Module. Sorry, it is rather lengthy, but it might be of interest to some – it takes a different spin on the issue of the relationship between the growing church in the South and the Churches in the traditional Western homeland of […]

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Bible Translation

All Together Now: Why Bible Translation is Important II

This is a follow on to an earlier post (sort of). In the Garden of Gethsamane, Jesus prayed for his followers: “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me […]

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Bible Translation Christian Life

Singing the Bible

Bible translator David Ker has recorded demos of a number of songs and made them available at Soundclick. For the most part, the songs are Scripture set to music. Give them a listen, they are worth it.

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Mission Theology

Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy!

It is always nice when you come across the source of a quote which you have read many times before. I’ve often heard Leslie Newbigin quoted as saying that Mission begins with an explosion of joy and today, reading his book ‘The Gospel in a Pluralist Society‘, I came across the full quote. I’m going […]

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Mission

Changing things around

You might notice, if you look closely, that there have been a few changes to the layout of this site. Thanks to the good work of Rob Miller at roblog, I’ve been able to make the book review and library section a bit more obvious. You can now get an overview of the books that […]

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Observations

Home, home again: I like to be there when I can.

A non-existant prize to the first person who posts a comment saying where this title came from. I flew home from Kenya last night. It has been a truly memorable two and a half weeks, but also very tiring. I kept thinking of all sorts of good things to blog about, but I didn’t have […]