As this linky-thing is starting to become a bit of a regular event, I thought I’d better give it a title. Though as this offering shows, the title may not always be appropriate (the photo will almost never be). This week has been a good week for posts about Bible Translation. Joel Hoffman has written […]
Month: April 2011
Worship Music!
I know that I keep saying that I won’t blog on this subject anymore – and then I return to it anyway. However, I really couldn’t resist this wonderful cartoon from ASBO Jesus.
Bible Translation Can Be Scary!
Putting a Bible into someone’s hand can be a pretty scary thing to do. When you give someone a Bible, you don’t just give them a way of reflecting on their own actions and motivations, you give them a way of looking at yours too! When I worked as part of a translation team, I […]
-Zezu ‘nι Tlι
-Zezu ka ‘wυsɔ tlιtlιnya glaa Kouya, Ivory Coast Nivañombeloñe Jesoa A languague in South Madagascar Yesu kə̀ slabakak ahay à məke wa. (Literally, Jesus has got up here from the hole.) Mbuku, Cameroon Yiesu yied o Moba, Togo (right) Yeso e’eshegano! Kamuku, Nigeria Nummahu hi Hesu Kristo Mayoyao Ifugao, Philippines Yeŧu anaţa ţi pkeţ Mankanya, […]
Son of Eddie
We recently dug out a photo taken on my 21st birthday. The picture has faded with time and become discoloured and stuck to the glass of the frame it was in. However, the photograph is remarkable for one thing. My twenty-one year old son, Sam (who is a very good-looking lad) looks just like I […]
Mission and Church Schools
William Temple is reputed to have said that the Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members. And if Temple didn’t say it, someone should have done! Another quote about the church which is easier to tie down comes from Emil Bruner: The Church exists by […]
The Violence Has Not Stopped
I could quite get into this “round-up of the week’s best posts” thing. It is certainly easier than coming up with something creative myself. Here are a few more blog posts that say things that I wish I had said, but which say them better than I would have done. To me, Three Cups of […]
Memories of Missionaries
Missionaries were part of the wallpaper of my childhood. From time to time there would be a strange adult at our weeknight supper table and I would be introduced to Miss X who was a missionary in some far-flung country. They seemed to be a harmless enough bunch of people, a little dull and strangely […]
Two events defined the founding of the Christian Church in the book of Acts. The first was the miracle at Pentecost in Acts 2 which demonstrated that the Gospel could be understood and appropriated in any language. The second was the way in which the early believers broke out of their Jewish background at Antioch […]