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Month: November 2009
The presentations from the Global Connections 2009 conference are now online. If you were at the conference, you will know how good they were and you will want to download them. If you weren’t there, then just take my word for it! Elaine Storkey – The Whole Church – Session 1 (26632kb) John Azumah – […]
Why Didn’t Jesus Write a Gospel?
One evening last week I was chatting with some friends at a conference centre where we were meeting. During the conversation, one fellow blogger raised the question of why Jesus didn’t write a Gospel. At the time, none of us came up with an answer that really satisfied. I’ve thought about it over the past […]
God Has a Sense of Humour
I love this article from the Times today! The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, the youngsters with broad grins seem to […]
English speakers take it for granted that they can read the Bible (in anyone of a dozen translation) in their own language. But, just think about it, Jesus spoke Aramaic, his disciples wrote his words down in Greek – but we can read it in English! The fact that the Bible can be translated shows […]
I finally Arrived
My travel saga yesterday went on and on. After an hour and a half, we all trooped back to the gate and through the security check, only to be told that there would be another two hour wait, that turned into a four hour wait! We finally took off ten hours after the advertised time. […]
The Good and The Bad of Travel
This morning, I was thoroughly enjoying the privileges that come with having once been a frequent flyer. Over the last few years, I spent enough time in Air France planes to get a Gold card, which gives me the right to use the business lounge. This year, I’ve not made any flights with them so […]
Bible and Mission: Realignment
Reading the Bible and taking on board the story of God’s engagement with creation helps to realign the Church with God’s mission. This is the third part in a mini-series on the Bible and Mission. I would argue that biblically speaking, it is the Church, not the individual (and their missionary call) and not the […]
Links From Yesterday
There were a number of interesting items in the blogsphere yesterday which I’d like to pass on to you quickly. There was a good, readable piece on the Trinity published by Tim Chester on Theology Network and a good, if less readable paper on the Christocentrism and the Trinity in Themelios. While on the subject […]
Scripture Access Statistics
Did you know that approximately 6,900 languages are spoken by the 6.9 billion people on earth? Of these language communities, 2,479 have some or all of the Bible in their mother tongue according to Scripture registered with the United Bible Societies as of Dec 31st 2008 (451 have an adequate Bible; 1,185 have an adequate […]