The group I’m working with here are involved in language work in a number of countries, including the Central African Republic. This is a place that few westerners have heard of, even though there is a fair degree of civil unrest and trouble there. This report from the BBC will help give you an idea […]
It’s always interesting to see how other people list this blog. I quite like Tim and Ali, who list us under ‘cool blogs’. I don’t think I’ve been cool since I had hair. But the classification that pleases me most, is probably, the one on Brian Russell’s blog, where we are listed under missional church. […]
Brian Russel has just posted a nice little article on some of the issues involved in translating Psalm 36. It’s not too complex and well worth a read. Those of you who know Hebrew well have the opportunity for some scholarly discussion, the rest of us can just enjoy it!
On the day when the BBC have announced another peace deal for Ivory Coast, it was good to receive some photographs of literacy classes going on in the village of Dema. It all looks so peaceful and perhaps it’s a sign of things getting back to normal. We lived in Dema for almost a year […]
This is me, with too many other people in a small room in a hot climate planning for Bible translation work!
Which twin is the oldest; the one who is born first or second? To the Western mindset the answer is straightforward, but in Northern Ivory Coast things are seen a little differently – there, the second born twin is actually the older: The reasoning behind this is that the older is more important, so the […]
We had a congregational reading of Psalm 148 this morning. The text was displayed on the screen and we all read along. It was good stuff, very inspiring. 1 Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise him in the heights above. 2 Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his heavenly […]
I’ve never met Lingamish (David Ker) but we’ve interacted online and he’s always seemed a nice enough chap – until his latest post that is. Dogs. You like dogs? Ever had a dog for a pet? When you read about dogs in the Bible do you imagine “man’s best friend?” Why doesn’t the Bible have […]
As I was driving home yesterday there was an advertisement on BBC radio for a forthcoming BBC TV show. Apparently they are going to broadcast a series on food, which will tell us everything we need to know about the stuff we eat. To make sure that the broadcast is of high quality, there will […]
Brian Russell has an excellent blog post on the principles of translating the Bible into English. He closes his post with these words: Bottom-line: the best translation is the one that you will actually read regularly with the humble desire to open oneself up to its message so that God can shape and form you. […]