I have been musing on an excellent post over at Missionary Confidential. You should read the whole thing, but here are the highlights: The first time I heard it, it went something like this: “With our method, we hope to plant 200 churches in the mission field within four years.” Since then, the number of […]
Month: January 2011
Putting the Gospels Back Together
I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture which Tom Wright gave at the Bristol School of Christian Studies and would be interested to know what others think about it: Bishop Tom Wright – Putting the Gospels Back Together: How We’ve All misread Our Central Story It takes about an hour and will give you plenty to think […]
Eat Your Heart Out Brian May
If I hadn’t seen it, I really would never have believed that a ukulele could sound like this. Did Bohemian Rhapsody ever sound so good? This is ten minutes of musical genious.
The Danger of a Single Story
This 18 minute video is rich on all sorts of levels. It certainly has something very profound to say about the way we relate to the global church. HT Good Intentions Blog
Bibles They Should Translate
One of the things I wish I could do is write comedy (or write anything come to think of it). Though I can be amusing as a public speaker (try this for size), the nearest I’ve ever come to sustained amusement was a diary I kept twenty something years ago – and I’m not even […]
Generous to Whom?
This is the final part on my series on why we should provide the Bible for people who are poor and suffering in some way. One of the things that people sometimes say is that they want to give money for something that has an immediate impact and that they don’t want to wait a […]
The Bible: His Story
This is the first of the Wycliffe UK biblefresh lectures. If you want to listen and watch the slides you can click on the icon below. Otherwise you can save the file to your computer by right clicking on this link. I have listed some of the books which cover the subject of this lecture […]
The Bible and Speed
This is the third in my series answering the question of why we translate the Bible for people who are in physical need. Often people will comment something along these lines: I can see the value of Bible translation, but I want to give my money to something that has an immediate impact. There are […]
Different Takes on Bible Translation…
It is always interesting to see what people remember when you give a talk. Yesterday, Will Grady blogged about a meeting where I had given a talk on Bible Translation. The thing which struck him most was a throw-away line about the difference between a language and a dialect. Go to his blog if you […]
This is part three of my series on why we should bother translating the Bible for people who are poor and suffering. I can see why it would seem crazy to set about translating the Bible for people who are suffering from starvation and war. People in those sorts of situations have urgent needs and […]