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Throwback: Languages Matter

Bible translation matters because people value their languages and culture. But even more importantly, God values people along with their languages and culture. 

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Throwback: Bible Translation as Subversion

Bible translation challenges the agendas of prestige, politics and globalisation by insisting that all languages are of equal value before God.

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Throwback: Bible Translation and the Incarnation

It is the Incarnation itself which ultimately makes it possible for God’s revelation to be transmitted in human languages.

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Throwback: Some of our Personal History

A good God uses flawed people.

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The Best English Language Bible

A definitive answer to the question: “What is the best Bible translation in English?”

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Why Not Teach Them All English?

Why bother translating the Bible into other languages; why not just teach people English?

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Throwback: Reflections on Bible Translation

Our motivation and vision for mission start with the incarnate Christ, bursting upon history holding nothing back but emptying himself and eventually submitting to death on a cross.

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Mission History and Theology

Christianity lives – one might say it survives – by crossing the boundaries of ethnicity, language and culture. Without that process, it can wither and die.

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The First Sign Language Bible

I’m a bit slow to this piece of news, but this year the first-ever complete Bible in a signed language was completed. You can read the story at Christianity Today. With the translation of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel in the fall of 2020, Dunn and 3.5 million other deaf people finally have the complete Bible in American Sign […]

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The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Preachers who have been trained to turn Jesus’ parables into logical, alliterated, three-point sermons are going to have to learn to take Paul’s epistles and present them as stories.