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Julia BurkleyWhen I was 20, I spent five months studying and researching interfaith relationships in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and Ladakh, India. Part of that time, I spent in high mountain villages with families learning about their faith practices. Usually, English was only spoken by one or two family members who would be out working during the day, and I spoke maybe three words of Ladakhi and Tibetan, so I spent a lot of time finding really unique ways of communicating.
Rune Marie NielsenI’ve always felt closer to God when reading the Bible in Danish. However, I’m not a native speaker; I was born in the US to a family from Denmark and Norway. After my grandparents passed away, some of my relatives were baffled about why I would continue learning Danish. After all, there are only 11 million Danish speakers worldwide, which is 2 million less than the population of New York City, London, or Hong Kong. Furthermore, by the time most Danes graduate from high school, they are completely fluent in English, eliminating the need for Danish-English translators.
Rune Marie NielsenA sermon based on Mark 9:38-50 and James 5:13-20
It’s been over 2,000 years since Christ’s coming, yet today’s churches and Christians face some of the same problems as Jesus’ original disciples. “John said to [Jesus], ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” In Mark 9:38, John, and possibly the other disciples, are jealous of an unnamed exorcist who is doing what they failed to do in the preceding passage—drive away demons. Unfortunately, this jealousy and contempt for believers outside one’s own group continues in our churches and Christian circles. Churches compete to raise more money and recruit more members than other churches, even within their own denominations. Social groups form and target each other. ‘Us versus them’ is the order of the day. The modern world is flooded with competition at every level, from parents trying to outdo other parents to social influencers spreading harmful rumours about their peers who advocate for the same issues as themselves.
