Scripture Engagement Essentials

MA dissertation: Contemporary Missiology, Redcliffe College Abstract: This dissertation seeks to provide an overview of Indigenous Research Methodologies in connection with how they can help shape the field of Scripture Engagement research. As SE highly values local ownership and community…

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…

The Communication Assessment Tool (CAT) is an adapted Participatory Methods tool to research communication genres and technologies used by a community. Knowledge of people’s communicative behavior is important for strategizing in a culturally appropriate and relevant way when we want…

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…

In a word, the current State of the Bible is “under-engaged.” Perhaps the Bible has been neglected or simply taken for granted as people dealt with the challenges of reassembling their lives after a disruptive pandemic. A significant number of…

Dallas International University (DIU), in collaboration with SIL’s Pike Center for Integrative Scholarship, has launched the Scripture Engagement Research Initiative (SERI). The SERI program hosts a series of large grant-funded Scripture Engagement research projects. Research topics are proposed both by…

A three part series (3 sets of 10 one hour sessions) based around Wayne Dye's Eight Conditions for Scripture Engagement will be hosted on EMDC.online. Continuing to build and expand on long established insights about how people engage with Scripture…

SIL International Media Services offers a selection of core and specialized training modules to choose from. You can complete any number of training modules to be better equipped for the specific ministry context you are in. SIL media staff will…

From the online church revolution to socially-distanced small groups, the landscape of Christian faith and worship in America has been deeply disrupted in the past year. The strain of the ongoing pandemic and civil unrest in our nation continues to…