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Observations Reviews

Whose Religion is Christianity?

If you are too lazy to read a really important and essential book (or if you honestly haven’t the time), W David Philips is just starting an extended study of Lamin Sanneh’s Whose Religion is Christianity? To my mind this really is a must-read book, but if you genuinely can’t spare the time – at […]

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Christian Life

Richard Dannatt on Leadership

Ruth Gledhill has a superb post with the transcript of a talk on leadership by Sir Richard Dannat, the head of the British Army. It’s truly excellent. I linked to a shorter version of his talk here. … if we’re looking for a spiritual role model, which I suggest we are, then you know where […]

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Church: UK Mission

Michael Frost on Being Missional

This is a wonderful video. Watch it with an open mind and see your views on the nature of the church change. It lasts around an hour, so you will need time to watch it. HT. Forgotten Ways

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Bible Translation

A really unhelpful footnote!

During last night’s sermon I was amused to read the NIV footnote for 2 Corinthians 6:15: 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial Just how many readers of the NIV would worry about that one letter change in Greek? And how many readers would know what either Belial or Beliar means in any […]

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Africa Bible Translation

Lingamish on Dependency

David Ker has just posted a very thoughtful short piece on issues surrounding aid to the developing world. He particularly looks at how this effects the Bible translation project he is working on. By the way, if you would be interested in supporting the Nyungwe translation project, you can sponsor the team for a day […]

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Computing/Internet

All Change

You may have noticed that we’ve changed the look (though not the content) of Kouya Chronicle. The wonder of WordPress means that changing back is very easy. Your comments on the new style would be much appreciated. Should we go with this one, or turn back the clock?

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Church: UK

Church is Wrong

Following on from my post about not going to Church while I’m on the road, I was intrigued to read Justin’s post on the Radical Congruency blog. He goes a stage further than me and more or less argues that church as we know it is all wrong. For a long time, I’ve believed that […]

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Africa Computing/Internet

DR Congo Blog

Cédric Kalonji has a great blog about life in Kinshasa. Being about life in a French speaking country, it’s all in French, but well worth a read if you speak the language. If you don’t read French you can read an interview with Cédric here. You get some fascinating insights into life in a large […]

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Theology

NT Wright on reading the Bible

But I’ve been trying to stress that the risen Jesus does not say to the disciples, “All authority on heaven and earth is given to the books you chaps are going to go off and write.” He says, “All authority on heaven and earth is given to Me.” So that if we say that Scripture […]

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Africa Church: World

Christianity Today: The Church in Africa

There is an excellent article on the African Church in Christianity today. It’s well worth a read. A century ago, there were four times as many African Muslims as there were Christians. Today, Christians constitute 46 percent of the total population, and now outnumber the continent’s estimated 412 million Muslims. Further, while African countries currently […]