Husbands Love Your Wives by Chris Pluger

“Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.” (Col 3:19, NIV) How would you read this verse if you were a polygamist? In our American cultural context, the first meaning we get out of this verse is that each husband should love his wife and not be harsh...

Random Outages by Chris LaBoube

On Tuesday, 16 October 2012, the power went out at 5:55 a.m.  I remember that exact time, because I had started waking up and had just looked at the clock.  Shortly thereafter, the fan in my bedroom stopped (and I had not got out of bed to turn it off).   Even though...

Why Language Survey? by Rachael Nielsen

The importance of language survey in light of Bible transaltion is not always discussed.  In fact , few may know what language survey entails.  To put it simply, language survey is hands on language research.  It is a preliminary step to translation work and can show...

Coming to America by Christina Riddle

One thing that continually surprises me about teaching missionary kids in Ghana is how often I plan to teach my students about one topic but instead end up teaching about America.  Again. Our subject will be, for example, life in medieval times, and the text will say...