Not serious, but hopefully funny!
It’s true that there are millions of people around the globe who have not heard about Jesus, but we have to look after ourselves first and we can no longer afford to help the rest of the world. They can look after their own.
I love travel; you get to see new places and get insights into the lives of people in situations different to your own. On work trips, you also get to see things about friends and colleagues which are not obvious in day to day life. Sometimes you learn things about people, whom you thought you […]
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 […]
Sitting here in Northern Togo, I realised that no one has published a definitive guide to Missionary Guest houses and decided that I should cash in on this potentially lucrative market! This follows on from my successful definitive guide to Bible translation terminology. These are the things you can expect to find in any missionary […]
One of the problems with the whole issue of Bible translation is that people use such confusing terms. For someone who just wants to understand the merits of a particular translation or who is perhaps looking to buy a Bible, the geekish terminology that surrounds the subject can be a real stumbling block. So, in […]
This has been posted all over the place in the last week or so, but it I’d hate anyone to miss it!
I have to admit that I have a weakness for books. Rarely a week passes without me buying one (or two, or three…) books of one sort or another. But thanks to Phil Groom’s bookshop blog, I’ve just realised that I have been wasting my money on books for a long time now. As you […]
Three of the blogs I read have articles about the number of the beat today. Is it a coincidence? I don’t think so – obviously I got something wrong in the eschatology quiz a day or two ago. Ruth Gledhill of the Times writes: Have just filed a story I enjoyed writing on how the […]
Take my word for it, you want to read this newspaper article. Go on, click on the link. Just do it – and make sure you read all of the comments following the article. What are you waiting for?
Most of us have different parts of our life which are lived more in parallel. The people at work don’t know our friends at home and so on and it isn’t always comfortable when two different domains come into contact. I had a small and rather embarssing demonstration of that this morning in the gymn. […]