The Same Vision, Arrived at Separately

Africa Sings was founded in 2019 by Dr. Daniel Dama with a mission that sounds immediately familiar to anyone who knows Scriptura’s work: to promote peace, social cohesion, and the experience of living together through arts, culture, music, and Christian witness.

The Same Thing, Everywhere

When Jon Hutchins described his process of Psalms songwriting to Scriptura staff member Katie, she stopped him. She recognized it immediately: this was exactly the methodology ethnoarts experts teach in international workshops all over the world.

Thirteen People, Eight Countries, One Question

The room at the EMDC conference held thirteen people with differing roles. They shared a question that doesn’t get asked often enough: what happens to a psalm when it crosses into a new language?

A Psalm on the Bus to Lomé

A few days ago, a Scriptura trainer boarded the bus from Kara to Lomé. At some point the driver put on a video of a group singing Psalm 150. She knew the song—because she had helped the team who made it.

Before the Workshop, They Had Never Thought It Was Possible

The sculptors who came to the Yaoundé workshop were artists. What they had never considered was making something from the Bible.

Resources We Have Never Seen Before

At the end of the training, one participant’s final thought was different from the rest: “These are resources we have never seen before regarding a better way to translate the Hebrew poetry we encounter in the Psalms.”

Three Songs, Three Languages

On the last day of the Mbandaka training, three groups stood up and sang. The groups had been organized by language — one in Lingala, one in Swahili, one in Kikongo.

The First Time

For three days, the Incà community had been living in Psalm 23. On the third day, the fruit of their labors was heard.