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i-TEC's Portable Dentist Chair

Yesterday evening (New Years Day), I watched one of my favorite movies, End of the Spear.  If you have not seen it, you need to.  The movie centers on the events and aftermath surrounding the tragic loss of 5 missionaries in the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956 during an attempt to bring [...]

Book Review – Foreign to Familiar

Lanier, Sarah A.  Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot – And Cold – Climate Cultures. Hagerstown, MD: McDougal Publishing, 2000.  ISBN 1-58158-022-3

Someone from Ecuador visiting the United States for the first time complains that, “When I asked for a ride, I was told that there was no more room.  Americans are so rude.”  [...]

Importance of Indigenous Languages

One of the stickier issues in mission circles is the use of indigenous languages versus a second language such as English. One of the groups involved in this discussion is the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission (AVM). Among other things they advocate the use of indigenous languages whenever possible (which I happen to [...]

Cultural Intelligence – A Review

Livermore, David A. Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World (Youth, Family, and Culture). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.  ISBN# 978-0-8010-3589-0.

Cultural Intelligence is the second book in a Youth, Family and Culture Series edited by well known youth minister/educator Chap Clark at Fuller Theological Seminary.  This second book is [...]

Welcome to the For the Multitude blog!

Well, here it is.  My personal blog, For the Multitude.  I can hear it already.  You are probably thinking to yourself, “Why do we need another blog site?  Aren’t enough blogs out there already?  Couldn’t you find an existing one that would allow you express your opinion without starting something entirely new?”

To some extent you [...]