“The Languages Between Worlds: Remembering Fr. Sidney H. Griffith” By Rob Clements
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”—Ludwig WittgensteinEarlier this month, the world quietly lost one of its great historians of language.Fr. Sidney H. Griffith, who died on July 1, 2026, at the age of eighty-seven, spent a lifetime recovering voices that most of us never knew existed.Unless you have studied Syriac Christianity, early Arabic theology, or…