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Producing music videos in local languages

This article shows how music videos in local languages can support Scripture engagement. Drawing on experience in Mamara-speaking villages in Mali, Faantoni dit Souléhimana Traoré explains how music, images and community participation can help communicate the Bible’s message in a…

RichardAugust 6, 2026

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Traduire la Bible en Actes

Second Edition "Je recommande ce livre à tous ceux qui souhaitent que la traduction de la Bible transforme des vies ! Traduire la Bible en Actes rassemble une mine d’expériences de praticiens de la traduction qui cherchent à faciliter l’interaction…

RichardNovember 11, 2024

Culture Training

Culture meets Scripture – Online Course

How do we live in a way that honours God while still being culturally meaningful? How do we use Scripture to both evaluate cultural practices and to discern what to do? When cultural practices and values clash with obedience to…

RichardJanuary 22, 2023

Culture Development Responding to Needs

Faith and Farming

The Faith and Farming programme seeks to encourage farmers by learning from the many farmers in the Bible, including God Himself who planted the Garden of Eden. "The goal of Faith and Farming is twofold: to help those working on…

RichardOctober 17, 2022

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Translating the Bible into Action

Second Edition (2022) When Jesus was born to Mary, God “translated” himself into our human world. This act of God’s translation continues today wherever the gospel is expressed, in each language and lived out in each culture that makes up…

RichardJune 18, 2022

Culture Research

Analysis of the reception and appropriation of the Bible by Manobo Christians in Central Mindanao, Philippines

Summary of thesis: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Christians, within a minority people in the southern Philippines, view the Bible conceptually as a source of spiritual authority and also how they read and interpret the Bible,…

RichardMarch 9, 2022

Bible Translation Culture Research

Making a Difference

How did two very different language communities encounter and make early choices about Christianity? This book is a historical record of the Dagomba and Konkomba people groups of Northern Ghana as they embraced the Bible translated into their mother tongues.…

RichardFebruary 1, 2021

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Kuweka Biblia katika Maisha

Kuweka Biblia katika Maisha (literally, ‘To put the Bible into life’) is a Swahili translation of the well-known Scripture Engagement handbook, Translating the Bible into Action. This book has been translated and published in Tanzania, to use with the local…

RichardDecember 4, 2020

Culture Research

Towards a Model for Contextualising Christianity in the Nchumuru Culture in Ghana

MTh Thesis, South African Theological Seminary (2013) The major finding of the research is that the proclamation of the Gospel in the mother tongue of the people has made significant strides in the growth of Christianity among the Nchumuru people.…

RichardDecember 12, 2019

Culture

Évangile et Culture

"I welcome the publication of this book in an Africa where the arrival of the Good News had essentially been bad news for our cultural realities. Zac invites us to examine our cultures in the light of the Gospel, in…

RichardOctober 7, 2018

Culture

Producing music videos in local languages

Traduire la Bible en Actes

Culture meets Scripture – Online Course

Faith and Farming

Translating the Bible into Action

Analysis of the reception and appropriation of the Bible by Manobo Christians in Central Mindanao, Philippines

Making a Difference

Kuweka Biblia katika Maisha

Towards a Model for Contextualising Christianity in the Nchumuru Culture in Ghana

Évangile et Culture

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