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Holiday Reading

If you still haven’t been on holiday and you want a good book to read on the beach then look no further than The Ghost: A Novel by Robert Harris. It’s a wonderfully witty and perceptive political thriller and really keeps the pages turning. When you realise that Harris was close to the Labour Party […]

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Observations

Random Thoughts on Travel

Wycliffe Bible Translators’ Office in the USA is in Orlando, Florida, which (as if you didn’t know) is one of the largest tourist destinations in the world. So, when I boarded a flight for Orlando at Gatwick yesterday, just about everyone else on the flight was obviously on their way to Disney Land, Waterworld and […]

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Bible Translation

I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing

I’ve been hobbnobbing with Ethnomusicologists this week. I gave a short devotional talk for the Ethnomusicology and Performing Arts course that is being held here at the moment and then my friends Rob and Lois Baker were around the office after their return from Benin. I’m always fascinated by the work that ethnomusicologists do and […]

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Bible Translation

The Bible For All Languages?

Christianity Today have an interesting article on the Jamaican Bible translation controversy which I have covered in earlier posts, (here and here). The CT article includes a couple of good quotes from a couple of Bible Translation Bloggers: “I’m confident that Scriptures in Jamaican will help strengthen and standardize the language, shed inherited colonial prejudice […]

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Bible Translation

How to say sail when you don’t have boats…

More from bzephyr’s nine days of translation: But how do you translate an idea that comes from a boating culture for a language group that lives in the foothills of the mountains? They are separated from the coast by a few miles of jungle, sago swamps, and their traditional enemies. Read More

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Theology

N. T. Wright: The Bible and Tomorrow’s World

Consider: How does what we call ‘the authority of the Bible’ relate to the authority of God himself – and the authority of Jesus himself? When the risen Jesus commissions his followers for their worldwide mission, he does not say ‘all authority in heaven and earth is given to – the books you people are […]

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Bible Translation

NLT Study Bible

A few days ago, a new sparkling NLT Study Bible arrived on my desk curtesy of the good people at Tyndale House (it seems being unsubtle can help). Anyway, while I try to get the time to read enough of the notes to be able to review them intelligently, this video may be of interest.

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Church: World

Navigating New Moves of the Spirit

For a while now, I’ve been looking for a good balanced article that would help with understanding the “Lakeland Revival”. Today, thanks to a link from Hamo, I came across this excellent piece by Jason Clark. By way of method, I’m not going to deal with them directly. I don’t want to offer an assessment […]

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Language Vitality

Ban Ki-moon on Endangered Languages

As 2008 is the International Year of Languages, this International Day is also an opportunity to recognize the silent crisis confronting many of the world’s languages, the overwhelming majority of which are indigenous peoples’ languages. The loss of these languages would not only weaken the world’s cultural diversity, but also our collective knowledge as a […]

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Church: UK

Low Maintenance Church

I love this quote from Jonathan Ingleby: My answer to that question is another question: can we begin to think seriously about  low-maintenance’ churches? Also, is this possibly one of the things that ‘emerging church’ is about? We are simply being crushed by the weight of the structures we have created in order to maintain […]