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Last week, I went up to the village to 'help' celebrate my niece's fifth birthday. Of course the guests were her classmates in kindergarten class and so the house was full of cutee four and five-year olds. I actually went up to Mapayao village to try to finish a translation task that I have been procrastinating on for these last few months. It was a commentary on 1Corinthians. I gave myself up to September to finish it but September came and went yet I still had two chapters to do, so I went to the mountains in hopes that I would be able to find some motivation when I am face to face with the 'boss.' (Hehe) Well, it worked. I finished the whole book and even got it checked by the end of two days. So it's all good! PTL! I couldn't have moved on with the next if I still have that job (Of course, it wasn't a job I had to do. It was a book I've loved studying and writing about!) weighing on my mind. That was because, this week, I needed to be somewhere e...

Last week, I went up to the village to 'help' celebrate my niece's fifth birthday. Of course the guests were her classmates in kindergarten class and so the house was full of cutee four and five-year olds. I actually went up to Mapayao village to try to finish a translation task that I have been procrastinating on for these last few months. It was a commentary on 1Corinthians. I gave myself up to September to finish it but September came and went yet I still had two chapters to do, so I went to the mountains in hopes that I would be able to find some motivation when I am face to face with the 'boss.' (Hehe) Well, it worked. I finished the whole book and even got it checked by the end of two days. So it's all good! PTL! I couldn't have moved on with the next if I still have that job (Of course, it wasn't a job I had to do. It was a book I've loved studying and writing about!) weighing on my mind. That was because, this week, I needed to be s...

A STUDY ON THE BONTOC, KALANGUYA AND BIBLICAL CULTURE OF MARRIAGE   Introduction               Marriage is one practice common to every culture. It is the foundation of one basic institution of the society which is the family. Though marriage is a given, ceremonies, functions, and meanings attached to it vary significantly from culture to culture. This study will look at three particular cultures, two of which are tribal groups in the northern part of Luzon Island, Philippines.   We will peep at the marriage practices of the Bontocs of Mountain Province, the Kalanguyas of Nueva Vizcaya, as well as the practices and functions of marriage in the Bible comparing and contrasting them with one another.             There are remarkable similarities between the three cultures which are as follows:   First is the respect in the sanctity of marriage. Though Kalanguya ...

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