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Merry Christmas!
1 minute2011 was a big year, not only for us but all around the world. If you need to remind yourself of all this year’s happenings, check out Google’s very moving 2011 year in review on YouTube. For us, 2011 has been a year of seeing God do marvelous things. We welcomed our beautiful baby boy Henry into […]
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Translators as Agents of Change
1 minuteIn her review of Translation, Resistance, Activism, a collection of essays on “resistant translation” edited by Maria Tymoczko, the reviewer highlights the chapter on Bible translation (emphasis mine): Antonia Carcelen-Estrada in ‘Covert and overt ideologies in the translation of the Bible into Huao Terero’ (65–86) relates how the Bible came to be translated into Huao Terero, the […]
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Kindle, Christianity and the Future of the Book
1 minuteDon’t miss this very insightful post by Alan Jacobs (professor of English at Wheaton College) entitled Christianity and the Future of the Book. The similarity of the codex and ereaders, like the Kindle, might surprise you. …for those who love the book and especially the Book, the Bible, the rise of electronic reading devices should be […]
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Adios tejas
3 minutesIt’s funny: we were awake at this time yesterday, too–yep, the middle of the night; except it was for a different reason. (Sorry to use nearly every punctuation mark in that sentence–hey, it’s the middle of the night and I’m blogging from bed because I can’t sleep!) Last night was sort of a fitful night […]