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Article: Bible companion.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- February 6, 2007
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THE MAN WHO delivers my groceries wants a Bible," my mother said, "but he doesn't know which one. What shall I tell him?" I should have had a ready answer for her, but I did not. It was a big question, after all. If she had asked me to recommend a life partner for her deliveryman, I could not have taken the matter more to heart. Say you have one shot at putting a Bible in someone's hands. Say you want it to speak to him, so he cannot put it down--or so at least he remembers where he put it, so he can find it when it calls him across the room. This Bible not only has to sound compelling. It also has to feel right in his hand. It has to have presence.
I did not ask ...