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Hilary finds water coming from a rock during the driest time of the year in Mozambique.Living in Mozambique can be a trial for an American woman used to the comforts of home, trying to raise your kids in a strange culture, struggling to make a menu from local foods, trying to stay clean when everything [...]

David takes a break on a hike in the Dzuntsa mountains.Alright, I’ll admit it gets a bit toasty in Mozambique during the summer, and there’s mosquitos, and black mambas, and crocodiles, and weird food, and no high speed internet …But on the other hand in Mozambique you get to speak weird languages, meet some really [...]

The Ker cottage in Dinthi MozambiqueThis is a two-bedroom one-bath house. It’s about 900 square feet. The house was made with all local materials from Mozambique although we imported a few fixtures from South Africa. We ran out of time and money to finish all the projects on our house but [...]

What’s it like to find yourself surrounded by people dancing and singing in a language that you don’t understand? How does it feel to always stand out in crowd? Here Eleanor has found herself at a Mozambican Independence day party in Dzuntsa. Even though there’s lots of noise and she’s not sure [...]

Clockwise from top-left: Henry, Eleanor, Benjamin and Andrew see the world in a way few American kids get to: living in a village in Africa, traveling around the world and enjoying the best of many cultures and people. Ask them where home is and they’ll tell you it’s Mozambique. Only Benjamin was [...]

Here’s the spot for kerkins, Afri-kers, and assorted kerazeeness.

In my last post I wrote about the meaning of the word “so” in John 3:16. Wayne Leman reflects in this post on the possibility of “so” being used as an adverb of both manner and degree, citing the footnote from the NET Bible and Ann Nyland’s translation. [...]

In John 3:16, what does the so in “For God so loved the world” mean?

a. a lot: it is a quantifying adverb, i.e. “God loved the world so much…”

b. in this way: it is an adverb of manner, i.e. “God loved the world in this way…”

If you voted for a. you agree [...]

I’m not much given to metaphysics.  Normally I’m happy to sail along under my assumptions and not trouble myself about the origin of the wind.  But because I am preparing to teach a class on “Studying the Bible like a Bible translator” it has forced me to try to articulate what I [...]

Last week we were eating breakfast at Sea Lodge, watching the Pacific for Gray Whales. Dolphins were heading up the coast. H and the waitress were watching K3 watch the dolphins through a spotting scope. The waitress addressed K3: “Isn’t it amazing that they used to be land animals like us?” K3 said nothing, focusing [...]