Month: March 2019

• March 31, 2019

  The Back Page – Translating the King James

  “OK. I can buy the need to translate Wycliffe. But not the King James Bible.” Really? Let’s see. How easily does this read? Today’s fonts and spellings are so different […]

• March 24, 2019

  The Back Page – Translating Wycliffe

  “Translating Wycliffe? I thought he himself was a translator! Isn’t a mission agency that translates the Bible named after him?” True. Wycliffe would not need translation were we living in […]

• March 17, 2019

  The Back Page – I Can Plod

  An impoverished 18th-century English shoemaker with an illiterate wife. What could such a man do for world missions?Much, if the man is William Carey. It wasn’t easy; obstacles abounded. Many […]

• March 3, 2019

  The Back Page – It’s English to You

  A sleepy saying roused from dreamy slumber when people encounter an idea either arcane or abstruse is, “It’s all Greek to me!” Implication—Greek is foreign and incomprehensible. Perhaps that impression […]