The following guest speakers and lectures will be presented as part of the free 11-week “Passages” Speakers’ Series at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive. Each lecture will be from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays. • July 19: David Lyle Jeffrey, Ph.D., Baylor University, “Beyond the Renaissance: Critical Texts and Bible Translation.” • July [...]

Nigeria: American Scholar Advises Christians on Secularism 15 June 2011 An American scholar, Dr Scott Carroll, has cautioned Nigerian Christians against secularising their religion so as not to deprive themselves the opportunity to lead the Christian Church in this century. Carroll gave the caution on Sunday in Lagos while speaking with the News Agency of [...]

Faith in History The four-hundredth anniversary of the most important book ever published in English is an occasion worth celebrating. By Thomas S. Kidd, May 03, 2011 I once saw a bumper sticker in Waco that read “If It’s Not King James, It’s Not the Bible.” These days, that kind of staunch devotion to the [...]

THE WHITEBOARDThe Augusta Chronicle Dan White, Saturday, April 30, 2011 The King James Bible (KJB) is still alive and well after 400 years of dominating all other English translations.  In our own Augusta Chronicle, a verse from the KJB is printed on the masthead of the opinion page.  USA Today reported that “the King James [...]

After 400 years, does King James still rule? by Ken Camp April 21, 2011 WACO, Texas (ABP) — Supporters have called it “the book that changed the world.” Detractors have derided it as archaic and inaccurate. But few dispute the impact the King James Version of the Bible has made over the last four centuries. [...]

April 21, 2011 by Alex Johnson, Reporter Bible edits leave some feeling cross Easter may sound a little different this year. It’s purely a coincidence, but U.S. Catholics and Protestants alike are being introduced this Easter season to separate “official” updated translations of the Christian Bible, which arrive in the year the magisterial King James [...]

April 22, 2011 King James Bible 400th Anniversary Male voice): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… (Female voice): The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… (Female voice): For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter [...]

King James Bible, Now 400, Still Echoes ‘Voice of God’ by Barbara Bradley Hagerty April 18, 2011 This year, the most influential book you may never have read is celebrating a major birthday. The King James Version of the Bible was published 400 years ago. It’s no longer the top-selling Bible, but in those four [...]