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Hamlet for Facebook

No time to read the Bard? Then try the Hamlet Facebook newsfeed: Polonius says Hamlet’s crazy … crazy in love! Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends. Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not. Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent. Ophelia removed “moody princes” from her interests. Hamlet posted […]

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Methodology

Using Translations in Translation

The Highly Esteemed John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry gave Kouya Chronicle a mention in a recent post (not without me dropping a gentle hint elsewhere). John writes: Eddie prefers NLT to all other translations for his daily reading and I wouldn’t doubt that he makes considerable use of it when going about translating the […]

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Reviews

Mission in the Twenty First Century: 2. Proclamation

This is the second in a series of posts examining the Five marks of mission; based loosely on Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission edited by Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross. Proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom. According to Mark’s Gospel, Jesus started his ministry by proclaiming ‘The […]

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English Bible Version Generator

Given the proliferation of translations and versions of the Bible in English it is getting harder and harder to find new titles for them. So as a service, I am offering the Bible Version Generator which any publishers are free to use (as long as they put money in my secret Swiss bank account). Simply […]

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The Mission of God in the Real World

If you’d like to hear the sermon I recently preached at Winslow Christian Fellowship you can stream it from this page, or download the mp3 file here (9,700Kb). This is how the church administrator described the sermon. Eddie Arthur (Director of Wycliffe UK) brings us a fresh insight into the meaning of Mission, and our […]

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Computing/Internet

A Storm of Pingbacks

A few days ago I posted that our web hosting company was not allowing this site to send automatic comments to other sites when I referenced them. The excellent Paul Shaddick commented that I should change hosting company and recommended the one he used (I seem to remember that he was the one who recommended […]

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Methodology

Two Styles of Bible Translation

I have Google set up to alert me to any mention of Bible Translation in blog posts. Along with seemingly endless references to the LOLcat translation most of the posts seem to be about which English language translation is the best. I rarely read this sort of thing, for a number of reasons. Firstly, with […]

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Church: UK

Church Closures in the UK

More than 260 churches belonging to the Church of England have ceased to be used for regular worship in the past decade, according to new figures. The figures, released by the Government in response to a Parliamentary question, show that 29 Anglican churches closed last year, the highest figure since 2004. Earlier this year, this […]

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Excellent News from Chad

When I was in Chad last year much of the conversation was about a colleague from another organisation who had been kidnapped by rebel forces in the North of the country. For obvious reasons I didn’t want to blog much about the situation especially given that tensions in the country were still high over the […]

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Africa

The Food Crisis in West Africa: A Woman’s Plight

This video speaks for itself. Bamogo picked up an ax and chopped an old stump into firewood. She gathered straw and carried it to her house to start a fire. She set a blackened pot on the flames and poured in water, which she had fetched from a pump a half-mile away that morning. Standing […]