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The British and Foreign Bible Society are out with what they bill as The Poverty and Justice Bible
Using the Contemporary English Version, the editors of this special volume include a mid-section commentary on poverty and justice and their place in the text of scripture, both Hebrew and Christian.
However, the stunning feature of this edition is that every passage dealing with poverty and justice is marked in bright, what should be called "inescapable orange!"
Care to guess how many verses come up orange?
Over 2,100!
Here's an excerpt from the "First Word" introduction positioned in the middle of the volume:
Not long ago, a Christian leader bumped into the inventor of one of those popular courses that introduce people to the Christan faith. They had literally collided while cycling by the beach!"So what's your course about, then?" asked the Christian leader.
"Oh, its about the basics of the Christian faith, that's what it's about," came the reply.
"So you mean things like care for the poor, the sick, those infected with HIV/AIDS and the rejected of our world? Those kinds of things?"
"No, no," came the reply. "Not those, just the basics."
But how can the issues of poverty and justice be left out of "the basics" if they are so deeply enshrined in the Bible's pages? It's a question you might like to discuss with your friends or church. And turning the pages of The Poverty and Justice Bible
Published December 4, 2008 by Larry James |
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