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Bible & Mission

Do We Need The New Testament?

From time to time I post something about my perception that Evangelicals, even Bible translators (or a talk here), don’t pay sufficient attention to the Old Testament. However, it isn’t often that I come across someone suggesting that we may not actually need the New Testament; but that is the excellent issue that John Goldingay raises […]

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Language In the Bible

Did Pentecost Reverse Babel?

When considering the significance of tongues throughout the pages of Scripture, one may begin to wonder why God desires to hear His praise in every language. Why not just teach everyone Korean, the language of Heaven? Instead, He seems to desire strongly both an array of languages and praising lips from each one. In Revelation […]

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Observations

I’m Eddie and I’m a Charity CEO

There has been a lot of furore in the newspapers recently about the salaries paid to some charity executives in the UK (here is one example). As a charity CEO who doesn’t earn anything like the sums mentioned in these articles (I don’t actually get paid a salary at all), I thought I’d throw a […]

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Books I Have Read: Cloud Atlas

I think this is a first for me; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie and then decided that I really wanted to read the book it was based on. I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed by Cloud Atlas; I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and thoroughly enjoyed the novel, even though I only […]

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Books I’ve Read: Stalin’s General

If you are a military history buff or have an arcane interest in the internal workings of the Soviet Union you may well enjoy Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. If not; you probably won’t! I found it interesting and informative and I learned a good deal more about Zhukov than I already knew (which […]

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Books I’ve Read: Homeland

 This is the follow up to Little Brother, which I read last year, but didn’t mention on the blog. In short, it is a science-fiction novel set in the near future which deals with the way in which governments and big corporations are able to use the internet to keep tracks on what we are […]

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Bible & Mission

The Old Testament Roots of Mission

The missionary meaning of the New Testament grows out of the Old as a tree is rooted in the ground, as a rose expresses the sweet heart of the rosebud. One who reads the New Testament with no background of knowledge of the Old would punctuate many pages with interrogation points, and much of the […]

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Bible & Mission

Bible and Mission 1920’s Style

I’ve just discovered the Princeton Theological Commons; a fascinating online archive of books and manuscripts. Amongst the treasures buried in there is The Bible and Missions by Helen Barrett Montgomery. Published in 1920 the book has a quaint, antiquated style, but the content is excellent. You can read the book online, or download it as […]

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Mission

A Guide to Mission Terminology

A couple of years ago, with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I wrote the definitive guide to Bible translation terms. In the same spirit, I feel that I should write a guide to terms used in discussion about mission, so here goes: Missional: my church is more exciting than your church. Missiology: the study […]

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Books I Have Read: Au Revoir Europe

Those who know me well, know that I’m fairly strongly opposed to the European Union. Not out of any barmy reading of Revelation that claims that the EU is the beast of Babylon or some such, just simply because I believe it to be a highly undemocratic and corrupt institution. So, when Kindle were offering Au […]