Mission Frontiers Going Digital

January 30, 2012 by Doug

Mission Frontiers has been around since 1979. A lot has changed in that time. Perhaps the biggest changes have been in the areas of information and communication. You proboably don't gather information and communicate like you did in 1979 (certainly not if you were born after 1979). Publishing has been greatly effected by these changes. Devices like the Kindle and iPad are game changers. Gone is the need for a phsical product that must be printed and then shipped to each reader. A single file uploaded to Amazon or Apple can reach millions of users without any additional cost. ...read more

Tags: digital publishing, ipad, kindle

Patrick Johnstone Interview part 2

January 20, 2012 by Darrell Dorr

In his previous writing Patrick Johnstone introduced his paradigm of “Affinity Blocs” and “People Clusters” to describe and categorize the world’s many people groups, but in The Future of the Global Church he “unpacks” this paradigm in far greater detail. ...read more

Tags: global church, patrick johnstone, video

Patrick Johnstone Interview part 1

January 18, 2012 by Darrell Dorr

Patrick Johnstone is an evangelical optimist who writes “in the face of a prevailing pessimism and creeping universalism.” But does he have good reasons for his optimism? ...read more

Tags: global church, patrick johnstone, video

Translating Familial Biblical Terms

An Overview of the Issue

October 20, 2011 by Andrea and Leith Gray Rick Brown

Ultimately it is comprehension testing that plays the crucial role in the process of translation, because there is no other way to ascertain what a particular wording in the text and paratext actually communicates to the audience or to discover which wordings communicate most clearly and accurately. That is why translators and churches “test the translation as extensively as possible in the receptor community to ensure that it communicates accurately, clearly and naturally.” ...read more

Tags: islam, son of god, translation

Bible Translations for Muslim Readers

February 07, 2011 by Vern Sheridan Poythress

What wisdom is needed in producing Bible translations for Muslims? An article recently published in Christianity Today by Collin Hansen, entitled "The Son and the Crescent" (February, 2011): 19-23 (cover story) takes up this question. I commend the author for the ways in which he tries to give a balanced account of the difficulties involved in translating the Bible in Muslim contexts. But I am dismayed that the article expresses an unnecessarily critical view of some more recent approaches to translation. ...read more

Tags: bible, bible translation, christianity today, contextualization, muslim