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Newsletter Contest Winners
1 minuteYesterday we sent out our latest bimonthly newsletter via email. Follow this link to read it. Or, subscribe if you don’t already get it delivered automatically. In the newsletter, we decided to stage our first competition, a competition of French culture or, as in the case of many who readily confessed, a competition of Google culture–manipulating […]
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Clap for Jesus
1 minuteEd Lauber, a Wycliffe translator in Ghana, shared this picture on Facebook and we thought it was too good not to re-post. You got to love Africa! Of this picture he writes: On Tuesday we loaded the third printing of the New Testament in the Adele language and sent it off to the language area. I […]
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Ten Things that Make the French French
3 minutesWhat is it about the French that makes them so, well, quintessentially “French”? For me, I think of all the folks walking their dogs and buying their baguettes and taking two hour lunch breaks. And cigarettes, too. Here’s a top ten list that I ran across elsewhere. And just so you know, we reproduce this […]
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Alter: Translations Lack Literary Grace
1 minuteRobert Alter answering the question, “With so many new [Bible] translations available, is the King James Version still important and relevant today?” Translations that cast the Bible in up-to-the-minute American English are definitely cutting into the constituency of the King James Version because they are easier to read and seem more “accessible.” My own sense […]