….This Bible really did change my life. It told me that the things I liked – David Soul, chocolate eclairs – were things you couldn’t like all that much if you loved Jesus Christ”
This article from Christina Patterson, published in The Guardian on Wednesday 13 August 2014, discusses how easy it is for the Bible to become old, irrelevant or forbidding and full of condemnation… It also talks about the importance of the Bible as a foundational text, as a place of solace and challenge…
If you are looking for an article that takes the impact of the Bible (and it’s various translations) seriously – as experienced in the life on one journalist as she grew up – this would be a good place to start!
You can read the full article here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/13/good-news-bible
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