What language does God speak?

By Erich Bridges

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--It was no sin to be uneducated in the red-dirt countryside my Georgia kin farmed generations ago.

Many rural folks worked too long and hard in those days to get very far in school, assuming there was a school to attend. If, however, you got the precious opportunity to learn and you let it pass by ... well, that was just ignorant (pronounced "IG-nernt" in those parts).

That's about where Americans stand today when it comes to the study of languages other than English: willfully ignorant. It's hurting our future –- and our participation in spreading the Gospel around the world.

Read more of this opinion of Baptist Press.