Bad Translations are a Headache!

I noticed the other day that people seem to have been reading a post I wrote in November 2009 called Who has access to the Bible and who hasn’t? The good news since then is that the number of languages with a full Bible has risen from 451 to 457 and New Testaments from 1,185 [...]

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People of the Nook

Not book – but a Nook! I had never heard of a Nook until yesterday. Nooks and crannies, yes, but an ereader Nook which apparently fills a market niche somewhere between a Kindle and an iPad was new to me. This story popped up in Christianity Today… A couple of Sundays ago, my husband, son, [...]

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People of the Book

Bible reading, both individually and together, has long been actively encouraged and modelled at my church  Saintfield Road Presbyterian, Belfast. This year we have read the 50 Old Testament passages from E100; are currently reading GodActs – 28 studies in Acts (produced by the Presbyterian Board of Mission in Ireland; and will return to E100 [...]

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Confess your sins to your iPhone

According to Christianity Today yesterday… Mark D. Roberts is one brave evangelical. After rolling his eyes upon hearing of a new iPhone app that prepares users for the Rite of Penance, the Texas-based pastor decided to try Confession: A Roman Catholic App for $1.99, and lived to write about it. Mark was impressed… “I was [...]

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A Day off in Belfast

Yesterday morning started early with an 8.25am appointment for an MOT with the car – and then the day suggested itself as a day off from the office for good behaviour until my optician appointment at 2.24pm. So I Googled “art galleries in Belfast”, made a few notes and got a bus into the city [...]

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Retro-Blog… John in Ndop: 4 National Youth Day in Ndop – with a postscript about mobile phones

11 February 2009 Had my first siesta today. Didn’t sleep much, but read a bit of an ancient  Alistair McLean which I liberated from the Bamenda Guest House. We all went and lay down being pretty tired after a few hours in the middle of the day in Ndop town at National Youth Day. It [...]

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