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Why do we have a bilingual journal?
In our movement for Christian Psychology, we meet as Christians with very different backgrounds: different churches, different cultu-
res, different professional trainings…
There is a common desire to the movement, but highly “multi-lingual” ideas of its realization!

Therefore, a bilingual journal is just a small reference to our multilingual voices to remind us:
• Languages are an expression of cultures, countries and of their people. By writing in two languages, we want to show our respect
to the authorsof the articles,to their originand heritage, andat the sametime symbolically showrespect to allthe readers inother
foreign countries.
• There are many foreign languages that we do not understand. Within our own language, we intend to understand one another, but
we fail to do so quite often. To really understand one another is a great challenge, and we also want to point to this challenge by
offering a bilingual journal.
• “When languages die, knowledge about life gets lost.” (Suzanne Romaine, 2011)
• Finally, thereis apragmatic reason:As wewant tohave authorsfrom onespecial countryto writethe mainarticles ofevery journal,
it will be easier for them to distribute the journal in their own country, when it also is in their own language.

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