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That snatch of conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try...
The International Bible Society, for example, has published Path to Victory ($2.25), a New Testament that includes profiles of such sports stars as Michael Chang, Orel Hershiser and Evelyn Ashford discussing their favorite scriptural sayings. Blank pages in the back are for autographs. Readers used to USA Today will get...
But Black Bible Chronicles (African American Family Press; $14.95) remains the most striking and the most controversial of the lot. The God here is one mean dude, sounding at times more like a gang leader than the Lord. Warning Noah of the Flood, he says, "I'm fed up with...
As Clinton said, quoting the Bible in his acceptance of the Democratic nomination a year ago, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Democracy as such is not in doubt today: most people would pass up the chance to have another "strong" leader like Hitler or Stalin. But the...
Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off...