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By Billy Coppedge | Article
To facilitate a truly global conversation, we ask Christian leaders from around the world to respond to the Global Conversation’s lead articles. These points of view do not necessarily represent…
By Steve Evans | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Steve Evans discusses how to use oral strategies. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save as" to download file. Mac users: Command click and "Save link…
By Samuel Chiang | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Samuel Chiang facilitates discussion about the use of oral communication strategies. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save as" to download file. Mac users: Command click…
By Bramuel Musya | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Bramuel Musya describes the practice of storytelling with audience participation. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save as" to download file. Mac users: Command click and…
By Grant Lovejoy | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Samuel Chiang introduces the panel. Grant Lovejoy discusses oral learning and orality as a breakthrough strategy in Scripture access. A video illustrates the transition from traditional methods to oral strategies.…
By Panel | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Ron Green (USA) offers practical steps for pursuing outreach to oral learners. He moderates the comments and questions from the small groups. Download Options PC users: Right click a link…
By Chris Deckert | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Chris Deckert of Story Runners displays maps where Scriptures are most needed in our world today. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save as" to download…
By Ron Green | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Ron Green (USA) introduces the Oral Story Bible as a breakthrough strategy in Scripture access. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save as" to download file.…
By Tihomir Loza | Video
It is generally thought that the Roma journey westward started in India more than a thousand years ago, though the group didn’t appear in Europe until the fourteenth century. Estimates…
By Panel | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
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By Various | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
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By Shelley Taylor | Article
INTRODUCTION What is postmodernism and how does it influence Western society? How should evangelical Christians respond to it? Do stories and parables provide an effective approach for bringing the gospel…
By Steve Evans | Blog
Could it be that any story, every story, has the power to not only inform but to influence? It seems that every story told touches somebody somewhere at sometime. In…
By Steve Evans | Blog
For a word, there is no meaning outside of context. In a way, that is also true for stories. Consider an iceberg. When we tell or hear a story, all…
By Steve Evans | Blog
“If this is your land, where are your stories?” Edward Chamberlin asked in his book by the same name. This question carries with it the impact of a doubled-edged blade:…
By Steve Evans | Blog
“Why story and storytelling?” Thomas Boomershine asked in his book Story Journey. “Story is a primary language of experience. Telling and listening to a story has the same structure as…
