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Bible & Mission

Missiology is Meaningless

Over the years, I’ve tossed the term ‘missiology’ around pretty freely on this blog. I even produced a list (badly in need of updating) of the best missiology books. However, having used the term fairly frequently, I have to admit that I am becoming rather disenchanted with it. Missiology isn’t exactly a term that crops […]

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Reviews

Dylan and Knopfler

Yesterday evening, Sue and I headed down to the Hammersmith Apollo with our friend, Bev, to see Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan in concert. The evening kicked off with a set of about an hour and a quarter from Knopfler and band. Almost all of the songs were unfamiliar to me, but that didn’t deminish […]

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Do Not Use

Bible and Mission Links 12

I try to avoid linking to blog posts about translating the Bible into English. It is not that there is a shortage of posts on the subject – the exact opposite is true, in fact. The problem is that people rarely say anything new or of interest. The same old stuff keeps getting recycled. Then […]

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Bible & Mission

A Call To Mission: Reconciliation

Why would we bother translating the Bible, when there are people all around the world going hungry and suffering from poverty and disease? This is the second post in a series addressing this simple question (read the first one here). Perhaps the simplest answer to this question is that hungry people need Jesus, too! They […]

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Christian Life Reviews

Pursuit of a Thirsty Fool

Missionary biographies have had a huge impact on me. I suspect that if I’d never come across the stories of people like Jim Elliot and Isobel Kuhn, my life would have taken a very different path. That being said, I now struggle with the genre. Over the last fifty years the world has changed and […]

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Bible & Mission Reviews

The Seed and The Soil

What an excellent book! I read lots of books about the Bible; books on the history of the Bible, books about biblical interpretation and commentaries on the text of the Bible. There are books about the Bible on every bookshelf in our house and as often as not, you can find them on the dining […]

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Controversies

A Call To Mission: Extravagant Sacrifice

Why would anyone translate the Bible when there is so much starvation and obvious suffering in the world around us? Isn’t Bible translation a bit of a luxury in this climate? Over the next few days I’m going to try to give a few different answers to this question. For this first answer, I’d like […]

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Bible & Mission

How We View The Bible

… Western Christians have traditionally emphasized the doctrine of sin and grace and handled it as if it were the whole Bible story. In contrast, liberation theology in Latin America has focused on issues of God’s love for the poor and his concern for social justice, while African and Filipino theologies often concentrate on God […]