Window on the World - Back to the Bible

Excerpt: 'By any measure, America is suffering from widespread biblical illiteracy. People still know the names of Noah, Moses, and Abraham, but how well do they really know the stories of the Bible? How many people can still identify the original source for common expressions like “the powers that be,” or “the handwriting is on the wall,” or “the salt of the earth”? And if Americans don’t know such things, how can we know our own history and literature, which in so many ways were shaped by the Bible?

A new high school curriculum promises to help alleviate this problem. Called The Bible and Its Influence, the new textbook is published by the Bible Literacy Project and is offered for the academic study of the Bible in public high schools.'

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Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.

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