Orality

Literacy Orality

We can’t read the Bible!

Help! Hardly anyone can read the translated Scriptures. What can we do? This is a one-page poster or course handout. It reminds us that if a lack of literacy skills is cited as a barrier to Scripture use, then the…

RichardJune 12, 2009

Bible Storytelling Orality

Relational Bible Storying and Scripture Use

Thankfully, many resources and materials for Bible storying are now available. As I began to review and use these resources, however, it seemed that the relational context of Bible storying was too seldom addressed. Even in my own ministry, when…

RichardApril 1, 2009

Audio Bible Storytelling Drama Memorising Scripture Music and Worship Orality

How to Make Oral Communication More Effective

In seeking to free ourselves from the biases of a print-oriented culture, we need to consider, not only the kinds of media and discourse genre (e.g. narrative) that are most appropriate for oral cultures, but also the most effective ways…

RichardFebruary 24, 2009

Bible Storytelling Bible Translation Orality

Selecting and Using Scripture Portions Effectively in Frontier Missions

Most frontier Bible translators would agree that one of the major goals of their role in the total mission task is that the receptor language community would gain access to adequate Scriptures. Scriptures may be defined as being "adequate" when…

RichardFebruary 19, 2009

Orality

Communicating God’s Message in an Oral Culture

It is only natural for us to bring to our work the bias of our own ways of thinking, learning, and communicating. But unless we can adapt our communications to our audience, we will limit our audience to those who…

RichardFebruary 19, 2009

Bible Storytelling Orality

Making Disciples of Oral Learners

Discover why orality is a growing phenomenon throughout the world in reaching others for Christ. Around 70% of the world's population communicates mainly by stories, proverbs, drama, songs, poetry, and chants which all happens in a face-to-face context. Stories play…

RichardDecember 11, 2008

Bible Storytelling Orality

Network of Biblical Storytellers

An international organization whose purpose is to communicate the sacred stories of the biblical tradition. Their mission is to encourage everyone to learn and tell biblical stories. The website contains news of training courses and a bookstore of useful resources.

RichardDecember 6, 2008

Bible Storytelling Orality

Scriptures in Use

Scriptures in Use (SIU) specializes in training non-western oral learners through an Oral Bible (a collection of stories from the Bible that are told face-to-face and memorized). On the SIU website you will find the Bridges course, which provides training…

RichardOctober 22, 2008

Bible Storytelling Orality

Simply The Story

Bible storytelling and purposeful questions encourage non-literates and literates to discover. In September 2006, Simply The Story (STS) was born. The leaders of The God’s Story Project developed this training of trainers program. Built on the foundation of storying, STS…

RichardOctober 22, 2008

Bible Storytelling Orality

Story 4 All Podcast

Story 4 All was a weekly podcast on orality and storying. It was produced for many years by Bryan Thompson, from 2006 until the final episode in August 2018. The archived podcasts are still available to listen to. They include…

RichardOctober 22, 2008

Orality

We can’t read the Bible!

Relational Bible Storying and Scripture Use

How to Make Oral Communication More Effective

Selecting and Using Scripture Portions Effectively in Frontier Missions

Communicating God’s Message in an Oral Culture

Making Disciples of Oral Learners

Network of Biblical Storytellers

Scriptures in Use

Simply The Story

Story 4 All Podcast

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