Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching by Judith E. Lingenfelter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Summary: As a Western teacher teaching non-Western people, you need to become a 150% person: you'll never make it to 200%, but at least you...
Mark Ward
Another Bibles International Story
Some Bibles International consultants have used an interview format to help teach certain skills to native translators. One team of national believers prepares a set of interview questions for a particular Bible character and another prepares to be interviewed as that...
Dogba Story
One of the translation consultants at Bibles International just related a funny story. One African tribal group, the Dogba, had the grandest time hearing the American consultant mispronounce their language. They would give her Dogba words, ask her to repeat them, then...
Cleveland Park Bible Church’s New Website (Pastor Ken Casillas)
Check out the new website I made for Dr. Ken Casillas and the friendly folks at Cleveland Park Bible Church. And watch the video I created with the help of a Nikon D3100, a Zoom H2, Adobe LightRoom, and Final Cut Pro X:
Professional Development
I’m at Bibles International for a week to hear Glenn Kerr talk about Hebrew discourse analysis and Bill Smallman talk about cross-cultural communication. I’m reading a very interesting book on the latter topic, Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for...
Fish on Augustine
Let Stanley Fish tell you something about your own theological tradition that you should know if you don’t already. This is from Fish’s conversation with Marvin Olasky before an audience of students at King’s College: Those of you who have studied Augustine will...
It Doesn’t Get Much Better than This
It doesn't get much better than this... ...except that my alma mater's own Warren Cook did it better in 1998 (?) on one of the only two cassette tapes I still treasure. I don't know how he did it—some passages aren't even as clear as those of the great choir (Canada's...
How to Pronounce “Logos” in “Logos Bible Software”
How do you pronounce "Logos" in "Logos Bible Software"? Are the O's long or short? Should it be LAH-GAHS or LOW-GOESS? Or maybe both? LAH-GOES? LOH-GAHS? I have the answer. It's "LAH-GAHS." Both O's are short. There. Debate over. Make this post a Wikipedia footnote,...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 3, Chapter 3: “Fall”
The chapter on fall shows that the scope of the fall is “not only the whole human race but the whole nonhuman world.” (p. 53) Wolters ticks off some of the domains affected by Adam’s sin: marriage the family the state the environment the arts the academy technology...
Dr. Bell on Esther
Just a quick note that when I first touted Dr. Bob Bell’s OT book, I made no claim to have read it, only that I appreciated the author. Now I’ve read more of it, and I just recently read the chapter on Esther. I’ll say just three targeted things about this chapter,...