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...There is testament to this in many newspapers. Every Sunday, for example, the Los Angeles Times has two full sections of advertisements for engineers that have been placed by some of the biggest names in U.S. business. Rockwell International claims to "meet the challenge head on." Convair pleads: "Hang on. Convair's coming to town." Says Douglas Boswell, a West Coast engineer recruiter: "When the right electrical engineer comes along, I can get him five interviews in a single...
...calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc., which has repeated the process for 90 previously illiterate tribes...
...message in the Bible, since it is the accretion of over 1000 years' worth of tales, poems, history, and tracts, with little regard for internal consistency, and more often than not, more contradictions than a dedicated editor would care to try to correct. For McKibben to claim that "Old Testament and New, the Bible can be a profoundly radical document," seems to say much about his ability at selective reading, and little that can actually be substantiated...
...Testament is not "first and foremost" the story of God's intervention on behalf of an oppressed people, but the account of God's covenant with the Hebrews. When they follow his sometimes bizzare commandments and caprices. God rewards them; when they disobey, he punishes them, often with slavery at the hands of other nations that God is using as instruments of his will. We can perhaps gleam a sense of God's compassion from the following passages...
...Testament and New, the Bible can be a profoundly radical document. That fact lay at the base of King's movement, it has allowed the Latin American church to awaken as a social force, and it accounts for the potential beneficial impact of a committed Christian movement. Though it has had vastly more impact on Western history than any other book more Harvard students have delved into the Ec 10 workbook than the Bible. When you read it, or re-read it, consider the Old Testament as first and foremost the story of God's intervention to help free...