The first article is Joshua Frost’s second part of Emotion Exegesis, followed by two articles about orality and missional data. Lara Hevevelt describes the orality data gap and explains why bridging it is crucial, while Bud Houston shows how the Bible uses statistical data and how the Joshua Project is moving toward new ways to better capture people-group data.
John Paul Arceno wonderfully explains how digital media is both an extension and a limitation for communication. Greet Racharia historically shows how orality is deeply integrated into Hinduism.
Jerome Cepeda developed a game to make Bible studies in this church in the Philippines more engaging and David Ige uses the arts, symbols and rituals as a discipleship tool in Nigeria. Finally, Elsen Portugal writes about how the arts and symbols are used for our collective memory. This issue also includes an interview with Jill Zwyghuizen, the academic dean of Koinonia Theological Seminary (KTS), which is now the academic partner of OTJ. To top it all off, Sulamita Sousa shares her book review of Engaging Jesus with Our Senses.
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.
Wilson McMahon is married to Irene, with three grown-up children—Owen, Anna-Claire and Gavin. They have been members of OMF International since 1989, when they joined the OMF Philippines team. For the majority of their time in the Philippines, they worked as church planters amongst the Manobo people of central Mindanao. Wilson now serves as president of Koinonia Theological Seminary (KTS) in Davao City, Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.
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