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Bible Translation

Talking About Bible Translation

Up until now there have basically been two ways to find discussion about English language Bible Translations. There are numerous discussion groups in which people who apparently don’t actually know much about translation share their opinions at great length and without a great deal of accuracy. And then there is the Better Bibles Blog, where […]

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Church: World

Cherry Picking in Africa

There were a number of  ‘elephants in the room’ at the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town. The inequality between the church in the West and the Church in the developing world was mentioned, but never really unpacked, which was a shame. Onesimus highlights one area of growing concern to many; the cherry picking of majority […]

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Africa

Cape Town Pictures

Actually, these aren’t all from Cape Town. The Penguins were at Simonstown and there is one shot of Manamus, where I had the amazing privilege of watching Right Whales jump out of the water. Unfortunately, they didn’t hang around in the air to be photographed. The shots of the famous Cape Town Seals on Wheels […]

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Mission

Final Reflections on Lausanne 3

There is no doubt about it, the Lausanne 3 meeting in Cape Town was a wonderful event, but it is also true that it could have been so much better if some things had been done otherwise. The experience of meeting with 4,500 Christians from all over the world was inspirational. I’ve worked in many […]

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Church: World

Christianity in the Middle East

There is an excellent article in today’s Independant on the future of Christianity in the Middle East: Across the Middle East, it is the same story of despairing – sometimes frightened – Christian minorities, and of an exodus that reaches almost Biblical proportions. Almost half of Iraq’s Christians have fled their country since the first […]

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Church: World

Reflections So Far from Lausanne 3

Krish Kandiah has posted his reflections on the first three days of the Lausanne meeting. I have limited (and expensive) bandwidth, so rather than try and write up my reflections, I’m going to steal some of Krish’s. Highlights a)     The Testimony of the 18 year old girl from China who told her powerful story of […]

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Observations

Body Language: Lausanne 3

There are crowds everywhere here. At coffee break and meal times there are people everywhere. If  you start to chat to a friend, there will be people passing on either side of you and sometimes between you – there are LOTS of people. Sometimes, when you are chatting to someone, you notice that they are […]

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Observations

Cross Cultural Communication: Lausanne 3

Running cross-cultural, Christian meetings is difficult: really difficult. Trying to run a meeting involving 4,500 people from i have no idea how many countries and languages must be next to impossible. There are two basic challenges: how do you ensure that the richness of the multinational Church is brought into the meetings and secondly, how […]

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Observations

Lausanne in Cape Town: Monday

Well, after years of planning, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation kicked off properly this morning. At least, I think it was this morning it feels as though it were three or four months ago! As is often the case at big conferences, the main impressions that I’m left with come from the meetings […]

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Africa Observations

Sunday in Cape Town: Contrasts

This morning I had the wonderful privilege of being invited to attend a church service in Silver Town, a run down area of Kayelitcha; a township on the edge of cape Town. The service was about as far away as you can get from a suburban Anglican service in the UK. The building was a […]