Has Orality impacted your life and ministry? We love testimonies like that. Join us for the next episode of God Speaks as we hear YWAMer Youngshin  shares how God directed her steps into orality, or...

"Any one thirst? Come." In this episode of God Speaks, Michael J. Mantle and Jonathan Wiles of Living Water International discuss how orality has impacted not only their lives but also the cultural ethos of their...

God Speaks is excited to welcome Charles Madinger and Daniel Goerzen from the Institute of Orality Strategies (iOS)  as they  introduce a significant new orality initiative that seeks to address a familiar question: "What makes or...

This week we are excited to have Dr. Grant Lovejoy joining us for the God Speaks Webinar. Dr. Lovejoy is the Director of Orality Strategies for IMB and brings his wealth of experience and expertise ...

We are delighted to welcome Laura Cooke to the next edition of God Speaks. Laura is the founder and creator of 7SONG: The Bible in Song. 7SONG tells the entire story of the Gospel in seven songs, and is being transl...

We are excited to host Samuel Chiang, the former CEO of the International Orality Network (ION) and of the Seed Company. Samuel current serves as the Deputy Secretary General of Ministries for the World Evangelical Alliance and ...

Orality and Multicultural TeamsWe are excited to welcome you to the next episode of God Speaks. Dr. Don Moon will be joining us.Don (PhD, Biola) brings thirty-plus years of experience, leadership, and teaching ...

Orality and Theological Education in the Majority World Context: Addressing the Oral OversightGod is raising up theologically astute Majority World leaders who care about equipping their leaders with appropriate tools to engage...

Re-Imagining Bible Translation Through YWAM and Orality: An Interview From The Ground-level In this last year, Vikki Wright and the YWAM Arua (Uganda) team have followed the Holy Spirit into the whole new world of Oral Bi...

We are excited to have Dr. Ray Neu with us again this month on our God Speaks webinar/podcast. He will be modeling for us how to apply contextualized, oral hermeneutics to a biblical passage. This episode promises t...

This month, we will continue our experiential learning together as we explore how God shapes different people's character in the Bible through various life experiences. Specifically, we will examine the intersections God offered to people a...

In their book, A Return to Oral Hermeneutics, Steffen and Bjoraker reengaged us in a vital discussion for today both in terms of missions as well as better Bible understanding for all of us.Ray Neu has learne...

Want to reach the world for Jesus? Most of the world's population is oral-preferenced. That means we need to incorporate orality into all of our mission strategies. But how do we do that? We begin with prayer. Join us f...

In this episode of God Speaks we explore the connections between orality and advent. Rather than being a presentation, this episode features a brief story performance and a discussion on how Jesus' incarnation impacts all of our communication.

Embodying the Spoken & Artistic WordWith Special Guest: Roce Anog-Madinger:Jesus shared stories. We know that. But Jesus must have also listened to the people’s stories for 30 years before he started teach...

Episode 9 - Orality and Real Life Relationships:Putting Theory Into PracticeHaving been involved in Christian ministry since a teenager, Jim is dedicated to making God look good, Jesus well known and Christians well tra...

In this episode, we explore the questions that have shaped much of our traditional engagement approaches to Scripture. Dr. Tom Steffen and Dr. Bill Bjoraker will help us discover how oral hermeneutics invites us to reconsider our key questions ...

To fully appreciate orality, it is critical to deepen our understanding of the Hebraic communication paradigm. In this episode, Bill Bjoraker & Tom Steffen will explore God's intentional engagement with the children of Israel through meanin...

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture—S. HauerwasThis webinar seeks to explore how engaging oral hermeneutics naturally leads to fresh ways of theologizing that can complement systematic and biblical theo...

This conversation will begin with a brief and broad consideration of the typical text-reliant, systematic hermeneutical approaches of today. With those markers in place, Tom and Bill will spell out what they are offering by way of an oral herme...

This conversation will delve into Tom and Bill’s chapter on how orality has shaped and interfaced with text in the making of the canon. The goal will be to help illuminate how our text-centric paradigm as a holdover from the Enlightenment (that...

In this conversation, Tom & Bill answer the question: How did we get to this place communicatively in the twenty-first century? The discuss will offer some brief descriptions of Christian communication prior to the Enlightenment and then de...

Narrative: In the first episode, we explored how biblical orality invites us into a bigger communication narrative of embodied, interpersonal communication with the Triune Creator himself. This episode shifts the attention from the vertical axi...

In this episode, Billy Coppedge explores why orality is critical for the future of global missions. It will approach this by briefly looking at the nature of global missions today and critical issues that are being raised. One of the themes run...