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The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Anyone who thinks that biblical scholars are dull as ditch water should check out this post on Ben Witherington’s blog. At the same time, anyone who feels that Bible translators are mad to the point of being completely unhinged will have their worst suspicions confirmed by this. Why on earth am I encouraging traffic to […]

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Observations

Goodbye Ian Porterfield

One of the happiest days of my life was the day of the 1973 FA Cup Final. On that day, second division Sunderland beat the mighty Leeds United one nil, and my home town went crazy. Ian Porterfield, the scorer of the only goal that day, died today. There is a very affectionate report on […]

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Africa Bible Translation Mission

The Jesus Film in Bara

This is a one minute clip of the Jesus film in Bara, which Sue helped produce. There are no prizes for identifying the passage, but have a go anyway.

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Language and Society

Literacy in Ivory Coast

This Video produced by the Bible Society of New South Wales gives a good introduction to issues surrounding literacy and Bible translation. I must admit I was quite surprised to see that they are sponsoring literacy among the Kouya – I would have thought I’d know about that. It also shows the real dangers that […]

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Church: UK Church: World

How They See Us

There is a very interesting article on ChurchRelevance about how young non-believers view evangelicals. The article comes from the US and reflects the situation there. The sad thing, is that I think it would make even harder reading if the survey had been conducted in the UK. Non-Christians aged 16-29 years old were asked, “What […]

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Observations

The Best View in Britain

Apparently the viewers of an ITV programme have chosen the view of Wastwater as the best view in the United Kingdom. It just goes to show that phone in votes do sometimes get things right. For my money the view down Wasdale to Great Gable is by far the best view that Britain has to […]

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Reviews

Chris Whitfield

Sue and I went to a gig at the Talking Heads in Southampton last week. One of the acts was a guitarist called Chris Whitfield and he is absolutely brilliant. He doesn’t have a recording contract yet, but he one day he will. You can listen to a few songs on his MySpace page and […]

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Different Directions

Sam arrives home this morning after a week’s holiday in Turkey, David leaves to restart life in Bristol, tomorrow Sue goes up to Huddersfield to move stuff out of her mum’s house and I’m spending the weekend at Horsleys Green speaking at the Wycliffe Connect weekend. I wonder about fitting our family members with GPS […]

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Church: UK Mission

Resources for Some Friends:

Last night, I spent an interesting evening with some friends who are thinking through what it means to be a community of Jesus followers in our culture. This prompted me to put together a series of links to things that various people have written on this subject. I’ve linked to much of this before… The […]

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Mission

Trickle Down Missions

Please do not read this post by Phil Smoke. Thank you. HT Lingamish