Retreats

This online course gives you a taster of what it would be like to learn a Biblical Language. Biblical Languages for Fun is a year-long set of weekly online sessions that provide a simple introduction to the key features of Hebrew and New Testament Greek. It opens up some of the issues that translators are faced with, to provide deeper insight into English Bible versions. It will offer a richer understanding of key biblical terms that are rooted in a cultural context. And it will offer a taster of the more demanding task of learning…

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Like many good ideas, I suspect, the ‘lockdown into retreat’ series began as a joke. In the middle of a routine grumble about life, I wondered if I’d feel better about lockdown were I to tell myself I was on a particularly strict retreat, one on which I had to get all my own food. Before I knew what was happening, Becky had turned the grumpiness that is my way of practicing for older life, into an online program. What’s more she found teachers who appear to manage a pretty well grumpy-free existence. How they…

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