I believe deeply that a multiplicity of languages is one of God’s great gifts to the human race. You can hear me waxing lyrical on this subject on MP3 here (about thirty mins). However, even I think that you can have too much of a good thing and I feel very sorry for the teachers […]
Month: April 2008
Not What Was Planned
As I mentioned a few days ago I fell off a motor scooter during our holiday in South Thailand. Well, half way through the first morning of the Bible translation conference I found that one of my bruises had become very sore and rather red and inflamed. Thinking that it might be an infection I […]
The Traveller’s Favourite Sight
Is there a more welcome sight than your baggage arriving on the carousel? I know that purple is not a cool colour for suitcases, but at least they are easily recognised!
This is my fourth post in a series expanding the ideas originally contained in a short blog post on the way in which the Gospel interacts with different cultures. So far, I’ve set out that the Christian message does not belong to any one cultural setting, but can in fact make itself at home in […]
What We Did On Our Holidays
There are some distinct similarities between this year’s holiday on a Thai island, and last year’s break in the north of England – mainly to do with heavy rain! On our way to a Bible translation conference in Northern Thailand we’ve stopped off for a week on the island of Koh Samui. which is a […]
Not the Plane We Flew On…
It’s midnight in England and seven am in Kuala Lumpur airport where we have a long layover before flying on to Bangkok. The flight was fine, though the choice of movies was awful. As we were waiting to board in Heathrow we got a good view of the Singapore Airlines Airbus 380. It looks rather […]
Barth on Preaching
I love this quote from Karl Barth – but you might have to read it slowly a few times! “Our initial point is that God himself wills to reveal himself. He himself wills to attest his revelation. He himself — not we — has done this and wills to do it. Preaching, then, takes place […]
This is the third part of a series expanding on a short post about the contextualisation of the Gospel. You can find the original piece here. Christian communities very rapidly confuse their own cultural expression of Christianity with the Biblical pattern… In my earlier posts in this series, I started off with the image of […]
From the Wycliffe UK Blog: The Bible tells us in Genesis 11 that distinct languages were created at Babel, when human beings defied God by attempting to build a huge tower. As a result, God confused their languages, and ever since that day we have toiled with language learning, grammar and phonology analysis, and translation. […]
Why I Blog
David Ker (the artist formerly known as Lingamish) has tagged me with a meme asking why I blog. The simple answer is that I don’t know. I started off keeping a website as a way to keep in contact with the people who pray for us and support us financially. The name Kouya Chronicle was […]