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Bede, buildings and historical significance
One of the quirks of the Wycliffe Centre, where Wycliffe in the UK is currently based, is the building nomenclature: most buildings take the name of someone who has been involved in Bible translation...
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Celebrating the past: William Cameron Townsend
For the last forty years, Wycliffe has been privileged to have our offices at The Wycliffe Centre in Buckinghamshire. We’re moving next month – only about 10 minutes down the road – and it seemed a...
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Celebrating the past: L L Legters
At our offices in Buckinghamshire, we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses. Maybe not so much a cloud as a camp – each of the buildings here is named after a pioneer mission worker. As we plan to...
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Celebrating the past: Kenneth L. Pike
As Wycliffe in the UK move out of our long-term home at the Wycliffe Centre, we’ve been thinking about some of the people who placed the founding stones of our organisation. For years, we’ve been...
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C. S. Lewis, Storyteller
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis. The Northern Irish-born writer died on the 22 November 1963. However, Lewis’ legacy has lived on through his works of literature, most...
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John Paton: how to be immortal
Old missionary biographies can be simultaneously the most uplifting and the most terrifying reads. One of most dramatic is John Paton’s, who died on this day in 1907. Constantly in danger Paton’s...
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John Calvin and Bible translation
Today is the 450th anniversary of the death of John Calvin. The name has become synonymous with Reformation and theology. Given that context, and the significant impact he had on the church, it’s no...
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Myles Coverdale (c. 1488 – 20 January 1569)
Myles Coverdale was the translator of the first complete Bible into English, published in 1535. His work followed on from other first mother-tongue translations of Europe – French, German and Dutch –...
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When tennis, fresh fruit and ??? were illegal
The 1500s were a very different time. Most of England’s population lived in villages and made their living from farming. In 1512, tennis became illegal, along with a number of other games. For a brief...
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Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
On February 18th we commemorate the death of priest, theologian, and Bible translator Martin Luther (b. November 10, 1483 – d. February 18, 1546). Luther is most famous for nailing his 95 Theses to the...
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