Over the past few weeks, during a dose of shingles, I’ve been raiding the Kindle store for cheap or free books to give me something easy to read. Here are my brief thoughts on a few of them. Death of a Snob (Hamish Macbeth): the pick of the bunch. A pleasing Agatha Christie like mystery […]
Month: September 2013
Enough To Make a Translator Blush
Bible translators have to deal with all sorts of complex concepts; justification, sanctification and lots of other theological ‘-ations’. However, the Bible doesn’t just contain a lot of high-flown language, it deals with rather more – how shall I put it? – earthy issues, too. Scott McKnight has a fascinating little post devoted to a […]
Story of A Bible Translator
This video lasts seven minutes; I guarantee that it is time well spent. Please watch it! Now; what can you do to support and encourage translators like this one? Yeah, I know, you are busy and have lots of things to do and lots of calls on your time. Sorry for bothering you.
I’ve mentioned previously that I’m a huge fan of Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks novels. In fact, after I read the last one in the series (Watching the Dark), I went back and read all 20 of them in chronological order. Having previously read the books in a rather haphazard fashion – depending on what I […]
To my mind, there are three reasons why the Western missionary movement needs to be transformed. Most obviously: because of the growth of the Church in what used to be called mission fields. Most importantly; because our theology and practice of mission have often been based on a few proof texts, rather than on a […]
A Challenge to the Church in the UK
This photo was taken at the event we held to celebrate 41 years of Wycliffe work at Horsleys Green, before the Centre closes and we all move on. I concluded my talk with these words: “Christ will build his church and the gates of hell will not stand against it. The earth will be […]
By the way, apologies for the lack of posts recently. I’m suffering from shingles and don’t have a lot of energy.