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Language, Translation and Understanding
Three things from yesterday: …Reading Pamela Brown-Peterside’s ‘African Pearl’: In 2004 Pamela leaves New York to work with an HIV prevention programme in rural Uganda. When she arrives in Bundibugyo she can only speak through a translator; it’s important that she’s understood when teaching hospital staff and advising local women. Yesterday I read about her…
Snippets of Conversations
Yesterday I played a game… listening to and writing down random snippets of conversations… This morning I’ve read some chapters of Matthew’s gospel containing snippets of conversations with Jesus… ‘I know what you’re like. You’d just buy her one!’ ‘We had this discussion about Curley Wurleys for about five minutes.’ ‘I don’t want to be…
How Do You See Things?
We’re enjoying a few days in North Norfolk… …At church in Dersingham, Rev Mark told of the widow in debt who’s threatened by her creditors; her two sons could be sold as slaves. Elisha asks what she has; she says, ‘Nothing, except a little oil.’ She collects jars, pours oil into them, and the oil…
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