Journeyman

There are two noises that break the peace and quiet of the Wycliffe Centre. One is the distant rumble of the M40 motorway, hidden in a valley on the other side of some trees. The other is aircraft on their final approach into Heathrow, or one of the many private airfields scattered around the surrounding [...]

Antony Billington’s blog has a review of yesterday’s Biblefresh launch at LICC headquarters in London, from which he quotes Krish Kandiah Recent surveys suggest that many people no longer have confidence in the Scriptures. But not only have we lost confidence, we’ve also lost appetite. We have more Bibles than ever before, but seem to [...]

So what makes a good presentation then? I’m thinking a lot about this at the moment as it looks as though this summer will be the busiest yet for talks and presentations, so I’m keen to spend some time thinking this through. Iain Dale transcribed a recent talk he had given on speech making. Opening [...]

A few days early, for once, but my April Newsletter is now available to download.

One of the most frequent questions asked about Wycliffe Bible Translators, is why we don’t teach everybody English? After all, the Bible is available in multiple English versions, if everyone could communicate in English wouldn’t it be easier. Interestingly, this is a common question from English speaking nations. I’ve yet to hear an English speaker [...]

Each summer Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK send teams of people to visit translation projects in different parts of the world. We call these Engage teams and this year there are planned 4 week trips to Cambodia, Indonesia and Cameroon. The real purpose of Engage is to provide the opportunity for Christians in the [...]

Eddie recorded some video of me on our trip to Burkina Faso. Opinions, scenery, pot holes and a loud shirt! What else would you expect from a trip to Africa.

In the Bible the book of Psalms is a collection of poetry. Originally written in Hebrew, our translation into English misses out some of the beauty and technical skill of the original compositions. Philip Hewer recently wrote about the challenges of translating Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, and in its original form, [...]

While swaning around in Africa, I left colleagues (Ruth and Paul) to get on with the proper work of getting the new website for Wycliffe Bible Translators in the UK ready to go live. They did a fantastic job and the site’s now live and working well, you can find it at wycliffe.org.uk. It’s all [...]

This trip is almost over. Tomorrow will involve one more hot day sat in a meeting room before getting on an air-conditioned plane in the evening to start the flight home. I’ve learnt a lot here, but two things are going to stick in my head above all else. 1 – Asking the wrong questions. [...]