This issue explores how storying, relationships, and communal experience can make spiritual truth come alive for high-orality-reliant communities. It ranges from teaching the Trinity in Brazil’s Xingu region to Bible translation in Nigeria’s Ijebu dialect, from Biblical storytelling among Muslims in Oman and Tajikistan to chronological Bible storying among Tibetan Buddhists and Thai communities. Our contributors show that faithful, effective ministry most often does not begin with written materials, but with listening, presence, and the timeless power of story.
Danyal is a German who grew up in Brazil and has worked among unreached people in the Philippines since 2007. He is the first to earn a PhD in Orality Studies and currently serves as Research Director with Orality Collaborators (https://orality.co). In this role, Danyal oversees the development of the Global Orality Mapping Project (GOMAP, https://gomap.pro), teaches orality principles and methods around the world, and is the co-founder and editor of the OralityTalks Journal.
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