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The Story of Her Hair
3 minutesHair today, gone tomorrow. Well, Thursday to be exact. That’s right Ladies and Gentlemen, in five days Poppy is having her first EVER haircut. You have to realise that this is a very big deal for us. Her hair has never even seen a pair of scissors before, not even a trim has this hair […]
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Saturday on the Mountain
2 minutesLooking out our front window we are faced with the steep incline of a mountain wall, our own western extension of the Alps. From where we sit in the valley, the rising incline looks almost like an inhospitable green ocean. On Saturday, however, a family from church showed us what it’s like to live in […]
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Placing Bible Translation Theories in Historical Context
1 minuteThe following article from SIL’s Journal of Translation was incredibly helpful to me in providing contemporary context for Bible translation theories, especially meaning-based translation. Inside, you’ll find discussions and the history of terms like dynamic equivalency, meaning-based translation, functional equivalency, optimal equivalency, relevance theory, frames of reference, and skopostheorie, among helpful bibliographies and charts and graphs. The article, like the […]
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Forgive My Enemies
1 minuteWatch this powerful video about a village in Cameroon who was attacked and had their homes burned down one week before the dedication of the Gospel of Luke in their language. What effect did the gospel have? One week before the dedication of the Gospel of Luke, three hundred homes in the village of Bambalang, […]