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Observations

Biggest and Best

Every now and then, Facebook pops up a suggestion that I should join a Christian group called ‘Lets find a million Christians on Facebook‘ or ‘Jesus has the most fans‘ or words to that effect. The latest spin on this is a Facebook group trying to get ensure that a Christian artist is number one […]

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Africa

Is Christianity African?

William at Onesimus Online has come up with another brilliant blog post: There is a persistent myth among both Christians and Muslims and others that Christianity is a Western religion that is foreign to Africa. And yes, it is true that Western versions of Christianity, such as Roman Catholicism and all forms of Protestantism are […]

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Mission

The Mission of the People of God

Tim Davy has just posted the publisher’s blurb for Chris Wright’s new book, Mission and the People of God which you can read here. It looks as though this new work, due out later this year, will be an excellent companion to the wonderful ‘The Mission of God‘. Tim also points us to a series […]

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Bible Translation Mission

Cross Cultural Missionaries Don’t All Fit A Stereotype

I don’t know what your stereotypical view of a cross-cultural missionary is; it almost certainly involves a North American or a European working in some tropical part of the world. However, the reality is often very different; as this story shows. Since 2000, Deva and Sudha Subir have been working to commit the language of […]

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Observations

Travellers’ Tales

This is probably as near as I will ever get to publishing an autobiography. This 26 minute interview seems to cover most aspects of my life fairly adequately and may be of interest to you. Can my life really be summed up in less than half an hour? If you would like to download the […]

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Africa Politics

Democracy: We have to Take it Seriously

I sometimes despair of the level of political debate in the UK. As the election gets closer, too many politicians and commentators are reducing complex issues to the level of insult and sound bites. Is it any wonder that people are becoming disillusioned with our system? Meanwhile, people are being killed on the streets of […]

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Observations

My Funniest Missionary Story

This is probably the funniest, if not the most profound, of my missionary stories. When you listen to it, you will understand why I’ve not included any photographs! The recording was made during the Window On Wycliffe Course this week. https://www.kouya.net/upload/EddieStory.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:05 — 5.2MB) | Embed

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Observations

God: New Evidence

I’ve tended to avoid talking about Richard Dawkins and the new atheism. This is partly because I don’t want to give half thought through answers to the difficult and real questions that the new atheism raises. When I worked as a biologist, I used to get embarrassed by some of the stuff that called itself […]

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Mission

Moving Down With The Gospel

“… the church’s mission cannot be indifferent to the inequalities and injustices of the world into which it is sent. The gospel does not come to each person only in terms of some abstracted generality of human nature, but in the realities and differences of their social and economic situations. It engages with the injustices […]

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Africa

Niger

Niger is a country that rarely gets into the news, and when it does it is even more rarely for the right reasons. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about the situation there today: A coup attempt is under way in Niger with the country’s President Mamadou Tandja described by a senior French official […]