February 2, 2012
by Colin Macpherson, Langham Literature
In 1999 we received a heartfelt request to visit Greece and see for ourselves the lack of Biblical resource material. A dearth of material in Greece? Wasn’t the New Testament written in Greek? And weren’t several of the books of the Bible for Greek churches? Yet, sure enough, we [...]
January 7, 2012
By Isobel Stevenson, Langham Literature
Langham played a large part in the production of the 1,600 page Africa Bible Commentary that was launched with great fanfare in 2006. What has happened to it since then? A lot! It is not just flying off the shelves but around the world.
More than 130,000 copies are [...]
December 13, 2011
by Colin Macpherson, Langham Literature
From Langham Literature News
How do you begin to meet the Christian literature needs in one of the world’s most restricted countries? Imagine trying to publish and sell Christian books in a context where telephones are rare, the Internet is restricted, email is too expensive for the average person, and travel from [...]
December 8, 2011
Arnold Akueson
Arnold Akueson, a lay preacher with the Methodist Church of Togo, has benefited from the support that Langham Literature has given the church through their library grant programme. Togo is a country where evangelical protestant theological and Biblical books in French are both difficult to find and prohibitively expensive. In situations where [...]
September 26, 2011
Colin Macpherson, Langham Literature Cambodia, what comes to mind when hearing this name? Perhaps ancient temples, Buddhism, humanitarian aid, poverty, corruption, Hollywood adoptions, the Ho Chi Minh trail, carpet bombing are some of the possibilities. In reality, present day Cambodia boasts a growing population of nearly 14 [...]March 2, 2011
by Tiffany Randall Su, Langham Partnership International
He’s a Presbyterian pastor of a church in Rio de Janeiro that he planted ten years ago. He is also the Spiritual Leader of Renovare Brazil, a Christian organization committed to starting a spiritual formation movement in Brazil. And he still finds time to teach university-level classes on corporative [...]
September 29, 2010
By Isobel Stevenson, Langham Literature The rise of radical Hinduism and radical Islam in South Asia is increasing the pressure on Christians, who need to know more about their faith if they are to be able to defend it. There has also been a considerable turning to Christ in South Asia, [...]June 10, 2010
Nairobi, KENYA (June 7, 2010)
June 2, 2010 in Dodoma, about 120 Bishops and key church leaders from around Tanzania took a break from a grueling programme during the Annual Christian Council of Tanzania (CCT) Bishop’s Conference to dedicate the newly published Kiswahili edition of the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC) – (Ufafanuzi wa Biblia katika Mazingira [...]
March 31, 2010
Langham Literature Editor Isobel Stevenson reports on training for aspiring writers and editors so desperately needed in the African evangelical publishing industry.
by Isobel Stevenson, editor Langham Literature
Ghana Workshop
I spent an exhausting but very worthwhile two weeks in Ghana and Nigeria. In Accra, Ghana, I worked with a group of 15 theologians who wanted to [...]
March 18, 2010
Today Africa is mourning the passing of another of her great sons, Dr Tokunboh Adeyemo. Dr Adeyemo has been a leader in the evangelical church in Africa for more than 30 years, during which he has overseen the growth of many supposedly impossible projects. He led the Association of Evangelicals in Africa for 25 years, [...]