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Medicine
Medicine, it’s a simple word, right? Well, not quite. I first realized that it might have a broader meaning when a single colleague of mine told of an experience she had while traveling by public...
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What kind of holy?
Page of John Wycliffe’s translation What do we mean when we say that the Bible is “holy”? I hope that we mean that it is God’s word and that we therefore take it seriously. But some people mean...
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Language policy to live by
Tyndale being martyred – from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Yesterday in 1536, one of the greatest Englishmen to have ever lived was first strangled, then burned at the stake. His crime? Well, he disagreed...
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Trick or Theses
Some people celebrate an alternative to Halloween based on something that happened on this day (October 31) in 1517. en 95 Theses in Latin Monk and scholar Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the...
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A century of doing without
Centenary celebration (photo B. Modibale) When Dayle and I worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we worked with a group of churches named CECCA/16. They were founded by the intrepid C. T. Studd....
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Ethnodoxology
Composing Nkonya praise music under a mango tree The word for the day is ethnodoxology - the art of making praise songs in local languages. Praise should come from the heart, so it is best given in...
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Most asked
When we were recently in the US for a few months, I noted the questions we were most often asked. Here they are: Why are there so many languages? You say there are 7,105 languages spoken today. Are...
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Why so many languages?
When asked to talk about what we do, I often give the number of languages spoken in the world today. That number stands at 7,105. In response, people often ask me why there are so many languages....
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Languages or dialects
I am continuing a series of blogs responding to the questions I was most asked when I was in the US. This week, the question is: You say there are 7,105 languages spoken today. Are those real languages...
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Are languages related?
I am continuing a series of blogs responding to the questions I was most asked when I was in the US. This week, the question is: You say there are 7,105 languages spoken today. Are they related to...
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Isn’t everyone learning English?
This week, we return to answering the questions I was most asked while I was last in the US. It is natural to think that everyone is learning today’s world language, English. When I travel, I mostly...
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The foremost translation
Christmas. That’s when we celebrate the fact that God came to earth in the person of Jesus. God coming to earth in the form of a man is central to the Christian faith. The core of our faith is not a...
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On this day in 1604
King James On this day in 1604, King James agreed to order a new translation of the Bible into English. It was finished in 1611. On its 400th anniversary I wrote of its impact both historic (more than...
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How do people read?
This week, I continue my series on the questions I was most asked while in the US. This week’s question is: How do people read the translations, because their language is unwritten? Most of the...
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Mother tongue day 2014
Painting by Marten van Valckenborch the Elder Today is International Mother Tongue day. That is a good thing for believers to celebrate. Why do I think so? Follow this link for the answer....
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Doing translation?
This is the last installment in our series of asking the questions we were most asked last time we were in the US. This week, the question is: Are you doing translation? What do you actually do? The...
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Ulfilas day – according to me
Today, I commemorate a man you probably never heard of who did something unheard of. I wrote about it last year. Read, or re-read it here: http://heartlanguage.org/2013/02/07/ulfilas/
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Culture determines Bible relevance
More and more people are consulting the Bible online. That has allowed researchers to gather new and better information about how people use the Bible. BibleGateway.com is by far the most used Bible...
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Choirs
Ghana choir When you hear the phrase “church choir” what comes to mind? Large? Traditional? Sings hymns? Wears robes? What would it be like if: Many church choirs wrote their own songs Every church...
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It is written, but where
After his resurrection, Jesus was walked with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus when he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the...
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