Category

Language and Communication

Orality

Don’t Throw the Book at Them

Communicating the Christian Message to People Who Don’t Read
Harry Box (2014)
From the book's description: Don’t Throw the Book at Them addresses one of the most vital issues in contemporary missions. It is a manual for cross-cultural missionaries and national church leaders ministering in societies based on oral rather than written…
Richard
April 26, 2019
Bible TranslationLiteracyOrality

Translation, Literacy and Orality

Reflections from the domain of Bible translation
Dick Kroneman (2017)
"The current emphasis on oral approaches to scripture engagement is, generally speaking, a laudable development. Since oral communication is indeed the primary means of communication for many people in the South, it is indeed natural and important to recognize the…
Richard
October 9, 2018
Culture

Évangile et Culture

Jalons de réconciliation
Zacharie Manyim M. (2017)
"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…
Richard
October 7, 2018
Bible StorytellingFilm and VideoOrality

Building Bridges to Oral Cultures

Journeys among the Least-Reached
Carla Bowman, Jim Bowman (2017)
Building Bridges to Oral Cultures narrates with chronological and adventurous detail, an extraordinary journey that began for Jim and Carla Bowman in the early 80s with a passion to share the Good News with a handful of the least-reached, indigenous…
Richard
October 7, 2018
Culture meets ScriptureCulture

Culture meets Scripture

Making culturally meaningful choices that honor God
This dynamically relevant workshop is built on an important cultural event which creates inner turmoil and struggle for believers. Birth, death, and marriage, for instance, may require a number of rituals that conflict with Scripture. Workshop features: Christian community leaders…
Richard
October 2, 2018
DevelopmentLanguage IssuesStrategic Planning

Sustaining Language Use

Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development
Paul Lewis, Gary Simons (2016)
How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL…
Richard
September 27, 2018
LiteracyResearch

Impact Assessment Report

Results of a study, surveying nearly 5,500 people in Burkina Faso and Cameroon
Béatrice Konfe-Tiendrebeogo (ANTBA, Burkina Faso), Julious Ngum Kimbung (CABTAL, Cameroon), Martin Engeler (OneBook, Canada) (2014)
This study was undertaken by a small team of Africans and Canadians to measure the impacts of translated Scriptures, literacy and Scripture engagement programs on marginalized minority language communities, to discern whether certain hypotheses are true and to better understand…
Richard
May 12, 2016