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Laughter
We laugh when things are funny. Right? Doesn’t everybody? Well, actually … I was at a press conference in Ghana where one the speakers went far too long. The audience expressed its disapproval of the...
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Birthday
When I’m home in the US, people sometimes ask me what I see changed. This time, it’s birthdays that have changed. Not birthdays themselves, but how they are used. At the doctor’s clinic, the...
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Why new translations
There are good reasons to update Bible translations and produce new ones in a language. One of the reasons to do that is that language changes. Words change meaning. When they do, the old translation...
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Shaking hands all around
A traditional chief and GILLBT Director In Burkina Faso where we worked for many years, it is customary to shake hands all around when coming into a room full of people, unless it is a big room with...
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Accolade
Seminar participants Recently, I attended the closing ceremony of a training event held near Abidjan. I found my lowly self in a meeting with a number of august people. One of the teachers at the...
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Oranges and Orange
In Ouagadougou, there are oranges for sale by the roadside. They are piled on small tables and the seller is there with a knife. The knife is to cut a hole in the one end of the orange which is...
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You might be me if …
People ask me what it is like to live overseas and return to the US from time to time. So I thought I would write about that in the form of “You might be me if…” You might be me if … when you get an...
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What is a taxi, a mechanic or a Christian?
Photo of a Renault model 4 by Xalax, via Wikipedia commons For a time when our boys were young and we lived in Ouagadougou, we did not have a car. I had a scooter and when we went out as a family, we...
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Pointing
After all these years in Africa, I still struggle to give directions Africans understand, and I don’t understand very well when they give me directions. I am still unsure about the meaning of hand...
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Interpretation without communication
Way back in 1982, I knew a missionary in Abidjan. At one time, he had just returned from a trip to another city in the country where he had preached at a church. I asked him how it went. He laughed...
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