Alan Hirsch has just posted a terrific quote from Dr. D. T. Niles – I wish I knew where it comes from. The Gospel is like a seed, and you have to sow it. When you sow the seed of the Gospel in Israel, a plant that can be called Jewish Christianity grows. When you […]
Month: October 2008
Translation in Cameroon
Nathan, who led a short-term trip to Cameroon this summer, has just released this superb video.
African Innovation
As a botanist, I remember that we used to talk a lot about hybrid vigour: the strength that came from mixing two strains of a crop. This video from HASH gives an excellent human example of hybrid vigour as he straddles two cultures and exhibits the strength of both. The mixture of optimism, good sense […]
I must admit that I came to William Paul Young’s book The Shack expecting to hate it. Best selling and fashionable Christian fiction has never been my favourite literary genre. However, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and ended up reading it in a single sitting. Mack, the central character of the […]
Getting things in Proportion
From the Kenyan Daily Nation (thanks Ben)
Endagered Language Hotspots
This excellent website gives a picture of where in the world there is most linguistic diversity and where languages are in danger of extinction. Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them never yet recorded—will likely disappear, taking with them a […]
Church Disputes
As arguments between churches go, this one isn’t the worst I’ve seen. See the rest of the story here. If you want want to know my view on who is right; the answer is neither of them, though the Catholics are doing better than the Presbetyrians. The mistake both churches are making is to think […]
Changing Questions
David Fitch has just written a fascinating post about theological training for Christian ministry. One of David’s colleagues is taking a denominational mission training course and had to reflect on some theological issues. However, she found that the questions did not really fit the world in which she lives, so she decided to rewrite them. […]
From Tulear
It’s been a long time since I had to do so many things by candlelight. I can remember struggling to do my homework during power cuts due to strikes back in the 1970s, trying to read by the light of a paraffin lamp when we lived in Ivory Coast in the 1980’s and 1990s. Right […]
The BBC Sunday programme has an interesting interview about the Jamaican Bible Translation programme which you can listen to for the next six days. You can listen to the interview here (move forward to 23 mins 29 seconds). It is really encouraging to hear the reaction of Jamaican pastors to the translation. You can read […]