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...English Bibles, emphasize high literary style. The New American Bible attempted some simplification but the Good News Bible goes much farther. It shuns what one of its translators, the Rev. Heber Peacock, brands "churchy gobbledygook," as well as wording that might be confusing. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "I shall not want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often the results are blunt indeed: "Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it!" (Proverbs...
Over 200 seniors and their parents listened to Bok and Horner, prayed together with Harden H. Wiedemann '75, in a "Responsive Reading" of the Ninetieth Psalm, and sang hymns in the traditional religious service...
...horror stories about torture, and I wondered whether my fate would be the same as Paulo Wright's; the son of U.S. missionaries, he was arrested more than a year ago, and has not been heard from since. To calm myself, I repeated, very deliberately, the 23rd Psalm...
...inner strength, which stayed with me. I needed it. After about 15 minutes, the cell door was flung open, my head again hooded, my hands manacled behind my back, and I was dragged off to a room that for me became a torture chamber. I again repeated the 23rd Psalm, as I was to do on every such trip for the next three days...
...next morning, exhausted from shocks, bruises and lack of sleep, I was hooded and hauled off again. Once more I recited the 23rd Psalm and again arrived before the interrogators inwardly at peace. I was made to stand, and electrodes were again placed on my breast and ear. Questions moved back to my arrival in Brazil in 1964 and all of my career as a missionary of the United Methodist Church, then focused mainly on my journalistic activities for TIME and the A.P. Between sessions I was again hung on the cell door. Except for about an hour when...