I have an empty maple syrup can on my desk to keep spare pencils in, but in the local grocery store maple syrup comes in small glass bottles with weird little round handles near the top. My friend wanted to know what the handles were for, so of course I told her that in Ontario…
In the age of Google translate, learning a second language might seem like a thing of the past. I hope not! Let me explain why, for humans, translation is not optional. Most of us think of translation in linguistic terms – interpreting an idea in one language and expressing it in another. Understood more broadly,…
Donald Trump (oh, I’m already so tired of writing about him) appointed Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense of the United States (a post for which he is dangerously unqualified, I should say). An unintended side-effect of this is that it has brought into the wider public gaze a concept from my own intellectual…
Recently, I wrote about the all-too-common tendency for Christian organizations to delay action. Excuses are made, like “needing to pray,” “waiting upon the Lord” or “forming a committee.” Ultimately these excuses prevent Christian communities from taking action. How different it is from God who “sees” and then “provides.” God takes action! To provide a practical…
For two weeks this past fall, I lived my life in translation. This was not my first time in Taiwan, but from the moment I landed in Taipei I was aware that most of my encounters and experiences involved mediation. Often this was through the kind and gracious work of translators – those who worked…
“Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who are hunted down and mistreated for doing what is right, for they are walking the good road from above.” Can you recognize one of the Beatitudes in that sentence? It’s Matthew 5:10 in The First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament, a dynamic equivalence translation….
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