Language and Communication

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

Bible Translation Language Issues

Translanguaging: Leveraging Multilingualism for Scripture Engagement

Translanguaging as both a theoretical and andragogical lens respects established language-use preferences of end users and seeks to create engagement opportunities that correspond most naturally to a community's current language-use patterns. Use of Scripture should mirror language-use patterns observed elsewhere…

RichardAugust 9, 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

Language Issues Orality

God and Language

From the book description: What is language? “Language is more than syntax and morphology; it is the vehicle for assuming the weight of a culture,” writes John Pobee, quoted in Michel Kenmogne’s Foreword to this volume. More than that: language…

RichardApril 21, 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 Storytelling Orality

That Reminds Me of a Story

That Reminds Me of a Story is a new podcast, hosted by Don Barger and Grant Lovejoy, exploring emerging trends in orality and the communication of the gospel. It answers common questions about the orality movement. The goal of the…

RichardJanuary 10, 2022

Apps Audio Digital Film and Video Marketing and Distribution Orality

The EMDC Podcast

The EMDC Podcast gives you the opportunity to meet some of the people involved in Scripture Engagement around the world. Podcast hosts Tim Cowley and Steve Baughman talk to colleagues involved in orality and storytelling, filmmaking, ethnoarts, websites for ministry,…

RichardOctober 7, 2021

Bible Preaching Orality

Expository Preaching in Africa

From the publisher's description: How can expository preaching, rooted in a textual analysis of Scripture, be effectively utilized in oral cultures? In Expository Preaching in Africa, Ezekiel A. Ajibade engages this challenge directly, offering practical techniques for integrating African oral…

RichardJuly 21, 2021

Language Issues

Engaging African Multilingualism with Scripture

Multilingualism in Africa is a pervasive phenomenon that requires attention and a missiological response. A modern average Kenyan is fluent in at least two languages. How does this impact our ministry in Bible translation? Many people can speak their heritage…

RichardJune 10, 2021