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Chanting the Scriptures

September 01, 2014 by Mae Alice Reggy

Tags: chanting, ethiopia, oral, scriptures, wolayta

When a New Testament translation project for the Wolayta of Ethiopia began in the early 1970s, the government would not allow books to be printed in indigenous languages; only in Amharic, the...

Making Jesus Famous Among the Nations

May 01, 2014 by Calvin and Carol Conkey

Tags: audio-visual, create international, film, media, oral, pre-literate

The 7,000 distinct unreached people groups of the world reflect the incredible complexity, diversity, and greatness of our God. One media form will not reach them all. As we pursue the task of...

Advancing Scripture Access for Discipleship Among Bible-less Oral People

May 01, 2014 by David Swarr, PhD

Tags: audio-bible, bible, bible-less, oral, scripture, storytelling

Foundational to making disciples in every people group is enabling access to and engagement with the Word of God in their own language. This awareness has fueled initiatives by some translation...

From the Guest Editor
Learning From My Own Mistakes

May 01, 2014 by Samuel E. Chiang

Tags: gutenberg, oral, orality, storytelling, zuckerberg

They were not Hearing

Over a decade ago, I was traveling through Mozambique speaking to an audience that had traveled some distance. While preaching through a portion of Nehemiah, I noticed many...

Opportunity to Reach the Least of These

May 01, 2014 by David Palusky

Tags: jesus film, lightstream, offline, oral, strategy, viral

Believers can spread the gospel to the ends of the earth with what is already in their hands—mobile phones. There are now more mobile phones in the world than there are people. Christians can...

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

May 01, 2014 by

Tags: communication, global, oral, orality

Applied Orality:
More than Methods

May 01, 2014 by Charles Madinger

Tags: bible storying, culture, language, method, oral, orality

You hear about this thing called orality from every corner of the planet. In India, leaders teach 100 key stories of the Bible to be able to recite to others as they spread the good news, and those...

Why Communicate the Gospel Through Stories

November 01, 2013 by Tom Steffen

Tags: gospel, oral, orality, stories, story, storytelling

From Reconnecting God’s Story to Ministry: Cross-cultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad, 2005. Used by permission of William Carey Library, Pasadena, CA

I thought that I had finally learned...

Post Gutenberg!
Oral Preference Learners Welcome the Digitoral Era

November 01, 2013 by Samuel Chiang

Tags: digitoral, gutenberg, innovation, oral

From creation to about the time of the Gutenberg press, communication was primarily oral in nature; writing systems took time to develop, and technology for mass printing had not yet arrived. In...

From the Editor
We Have the Greatest Story Ever Told. Let's Use It.

November 01, 2013 by Rick Wood

Tags: gospel, gutenberg, oral, stories, story, storytelling

Steve was a house painter from England vacationing at a beach in the Philippines with his family. A Bible teacher named Christine happened to be staying at the same resort. One day during a...

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