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 […]
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This is the first part of my answer to the question of why we should bother translating the Bible people when there are many more, apparently more urgent, problems in the world. In a sense, this answer is the most straight forward, but perhaps it is also the most contentious. To put it simply, I […]
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Why Give the Bible? 1
This is going to be a little mini-series on why we translate the Bible for minority peoples around the world. I have already written about this subject more than once and I will put a link to some of the earlier posts at the foot of this one. However, in this series I want to […]
The Evangelical Alliance have recently carried out a piece of research into the beliefs and habits of Evangelical Christians in the UK. You can read the first results online here or download them as a pdf. It isn’t easy to discern how this initial report reflects the further tranches which will be released later, so […]
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Everywhere to Everywhere
This month’s Mustard Seed Association, Seed Sampler is on global mission and contains a number of fascinating articles: The January 2011 MSA Seed Sampler is out. The future of missions is global! Not global in the sense of the old bastions of Christian power and missionary efforts from the Western Church, but rather global in […]
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Book(s) of the Year 2010
I’ve read some excellent books this year and made notes about quite a few of them on this blog. Just for reference, here are some of the best (listed chronologically, by the date on which I reviewed them): Salvation to the Ends of the Earth Beyond Empire Joining in with the Spirit Did the First […]
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A Common Call to Mission
I’ve read quite a lot about Cape Town Commitment which emerged from the third Lausanne Congress this autumn, but I have seen far less ink spilled over the Common Call to Mission, which was produced at the Edinburgh 2010 Conference. If you are interested in mission history and theology, it is well worth casting an […]
A year ago, in my blog of the year post, I wrote: Is it just me, or has blogdom become rather boring of late? There are lots of blogs out there, but very rarely do I come across anything that makes me leap out of my seat in sheer joy and wonderment. A year later, […]
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The Missionary Movement and History
Following on from my last post, here is a longish quotation from Andrew Walls. The missionary movement is now in its old age. It is not a useless and decrepit old age. There are situations where it provides the most effective, perhaps the only foreseeable means of making any witness to Christ or any proclamation […]
This is the third part in a series which I started a couple of weeks ago. You can find the earlier posts here: history, culture. Reaction to my earlier posts has been interesting. There were more comments both on the blog itself and on twitter than we normally receive, which is gratifying. Some of the […]