Pre-Lausanne Radio – Oral Communicators-Promo A

This is the 30-second promos for the first episode produced on Oral Communicators. I will post one episode per a week this month along with it’s transcript. If you want to use these in other regions or languages feel freeRead more…

Communicating In Context

  “Without their singing, I don’t know how they would ever get married.”  Sounds strange?  Not to a person serving one group in Asia where their singing is a key component of communicating history, and traditions, as well as manyRead more…

Communicating In Context

  “Without their singing, I don’t know how they would ever get married.”  Sounds strange?  Not to a person serving one group in Asia where their singing is a key component of communicating history, and traditions, as well as manyRead more…

Orality And Storytelling – Matters Of The Heart

“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 our experience,” he said. “The episodes of our lives takeRead more…

Orality And Storytelling – Matters Of The Heart

“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 our experience,” he said. “The episodes of our lives takeRead more…

Who Teaches Whom? God Works Through His Word

I was excited.  I was testing the Joseph stories with my favorite testing group, ten of the most influential older women in the village.  They loved the stories from creation to this point, and they seemed to understand the “mainRead more…

Who Teaches Whom? God Works Through His Word

I was excited.  I was testing the Joseph stories with my favorite testing group, ten of the most influential older women in the village.  They loved the stories from creation to this point, and they seemed to understand the “mainRead more…

Not A Passing Fad

Orality will be a factor in missions strategy for the next half a century. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading  Reaching the Marginalised, the 2010 U. N. report on progress in the Education for All (EFA) campaign.  The EFARead more…

Not A Passing Fad

Orality will be a factor in missions strategy for the next half a century. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading  Reaching the Marginalised, the 2010 U. N. report on progress in the Education for All (EFA) campaign.  The EFARead more…