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Observations

Eden To Eternity in Retrospect

Over a period of about two weeks, I spent a number of evenings with five wonderful people from the Saltmine theatre company on a joint Wycliffe UK and Saltmine production called ‘From Eden to Eternity’. You can see the promotional trailer here if you’ve not seen it already (though it’s too late now as the […]

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Reviews

The Drama of Scripture

This morning I was listening to my friend Roger talking about teaching the Scriptures. He said that he tries very hard to convey the drama of Scripture so that his hearers will be excited about the message and will want to read it for themselves. As well as thinking that this was a very wise […]

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Africa

More on the aid problem…

Rombo has just posted a very thoughtful piece commenting (among other things) on the wisdom of having Bono as an expert on aid for Africa… she compared it to “having an International musician like Amy Winehouse commenting on the US debt crisis rather than Obama. It makes no sense.” On the one hand, I really […]

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Quotes

What Should A Bible Translation Look Like?

Tim Bulkeley who writes at Sans Blogue (one of the funniest blog titles on the planet in my view) has just written an excellent post on what a Bible translation should look like. What makes paragraphs acceptable and headings anathema? Firstly, almost all “normal” books in our culture have the prose printed in paragraphs, but […]

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Theology and Purpose of Translation

Metaphors and Mission

Mark Woodward has picked up on Tim Davy’s post about metaphor which I mentioned a few days ago. Mark has written a very challenging post that gets to the heart of what mission is all about: When talking about Bible translation, do we talk about completing a task or sowing seeds? Talking about completing a […]

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Christian Life

Clear Communication

I couldn’t resist this one. HT David Couchman

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Africa

I Dared to Criticize Comic Relief!

Last week it was ‘Red Nose Day‘ in the UK, a day sponsored by a charity called Comic Relief who aim to raise lots of money for development projects around the world. Basically, Red Nose Day is a media sponsored fund raising day which manages to generate huge sums of money to help people all […]

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Observations

The Israel Story in the Bible

It is a recurring deficiency of many Protestant evangelical readings of the biblical narrative that it can be told without the inclusion of Israel at all! An over-individualistic concentration on the Fall… results in a stunted engagement with the biblical text which almost inevitably leads to an interpretation that individual salvation was the whole purpose […]

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Do Not Use

Wycliffe International

In a recent post, I mentioned some of the partnerships that exist within the Wycliffe world. This short video gives a good overview of how different partners are working together in Bible translation and language development.

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Do Not Use

Diplomats ‘tweet’ down Madagascar embassy rumours

It seems that more and more people are using Twitter as a way of getting their message across (not me yet though…). When US diplomats became aware of  rumours on the Internet that the deposed President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, had sought refuge in the US embassy in the capital Antananarivo,  they decided they had […]