bible, the geneva bible. we have the french huganauts bible which would be protestants who were seeking freedom in france just as the puritan s were seeking refuge from europe at the time. also the first bible printed in america, the elliott indian bible. it tells the dramatic story of the puritans who came here to specifically reach the indigenous people. so, not only were they presented with at that time, their purpose was the gospel, but also now something new would be introduced and this would be literacy, the development of their language. an opportunity to -- well, they would progress in educational perspective. from that we came over and we saw the new england primer, a textbook that was used for education. and although the museum presents a nonsectarian story, this is part of that story as well. and the very last thing that we have here is william penn. and we were talking about a little earlier that pennsylvania was literally established seeking refuge from religious perfection cushion, but not from

as -- and also the very first bible printed in america, the elliott indian bible, it's a very rare bible in which tells a dramatic story of the puritans who came here to specifically reach the indigenous people. not only were they presented with, at that time their purpose was the gospel, but also now something new would be introduced and this would be literacy, the development of their language, an opportunity to -- well, they would progress in educational perspective and from that we came over and we saw the new england printer, a textbook that was used for education and although the museum presents a nonsectarian story, this is part of that story as well. the very last thing that we have here is william penn and we were talking about a little earlier that pennsylvania was literally established seeking refugee from religious persecution but not from outside of europe but from within the colonies themselves and again as we had mentioned they're seeking refugee, the catholics, the quakers, the baptists or anything that opposed the ideas of the earlier settle settlers, that he wanted to t

bible. and we're standing in what's called the impact floor. this is the impact of the bible on america and impact the bible globally. but today we're going to focus on the impact of the bible in america and it's talked about a lot. we write legislation about the impact of the bible and separation of church and state, many things that have come from that. but today we're going to look at some of the under gerting items, documents, manuscripts, printed books that was here in and our founding fathers used to create what we call the government of the united states. and we'also with me is norm con. norm really put this collection together for us. and is here at the museum in washington, d.c. norm is going to lead us through here and give us some of the details of these items and it's a fascinating look at understanding that. one of our big tourist groups who come visit the museum, you would think with big museum, what do they want to see, especially overseas, the bible in america is one of the k

and bible quotes? >> i have, this has been an educational for me. writers within the books are playing off of each other, are reexpressing each other, this idea of intertextuality, i didn't study a lot of recent literature outside of high school classes like most of us do. i was able to work with a number of professors that spend a lot of time, we have two advisers from baylor university that spend quite a bit of time in classroom. but the depth of evoking the ideas and different ideas whether it's drawing on biblical theme to go to a similar direction or biblical theme to subvert and going in a different direction, this is different and never-ending. >> good afternoon and welcome to book tv on c-span2 and the visit of museum of the bible in washington, d.c., the museum of the bible just opened in november of last year, about 30 million bibles are sold every year, number one best-selling book in the world and our goal for the next hour and a half is to talk about literature and how the bible is used in

and so all bibles, the geneva bible, king james bibles, the catholic bibles would come from europe or from the crown, if you will. when we declared our independence in 1776, the import of products from london ceased, and so it was brought to the congress' attention we had a lack of english bibles. one of the colonial printers by the name of robert akin presented the idea to produce an english text here in america. so, at first in 1777, he would produce an english new testament, which is the new testament from the king james bible. so, the crown still holding the rights to this text would basically make robert akin an outlaw, if you will, or an outlaw printer. but there are only two of the first english new testaments printed in america in existence. one is at the new york library, or you can come to the museum of the bible and see he this one here. in 1782, robert eakin would prevent an entire bible. and this bible was reviewed by the chaplains in congress and passed on from congress to congress itself and reviewed. and which they gave robert eakin's permission to print this bible. so

one of our basis for this floor, not just bible in america but bible globally is the bible is all around you and you don't need to realize how much it has effected our lives, things that we say, clichÉs that we use today, a leopard cannot change its spots. that's a biblical text. an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. biblical text. we share those on this particular floor. the liberty bell is a great one to look at because again it has, represents the bible in a very different way. and that's what we tried to show. >> the liberty bell was actually donated to the museum of the bible by dr. peter loback, president of westminster theological and president of providence forum as well. it was produced in recognition of the 300th anniversary of william penn great liberty of conscience. it made a trip around the united states, the bell was running in all 50 states in recognition of the liberty of conscience. and then sat in a warehouse a few years, not sure how long. we got a phone call asking if we would like to have this bell for the museum. what's interesting and cool about it, it was produce

so one of our basis for this floor, not just bible in america, but bible globally is the bible is all around you and you don't even realize how much its affected our lives, things we say, cliches that we with used to, a leopard cannot change its spots, that's a biblical text, an eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth, biblical text and we share those on this particular floor. the liberty bell is a great one to look at because again, it has it represents the bible in a very different way and that's what -- that's what we're trying to show. norm, you want to -- >> the liberty bell was actually donated to the museum of the bible by dr. peter loback who's the president of westminster logical and the president of providence forum as well. it was produced in recognition of the 300th anniversary of william penn's liberty of confidence and it made a trip around the united states and the bell was rung in all 50 states in recognition of the liberty of conscience and it sat in a warehouse for a few years, i'm not quite sure how long and we got a phone call one day asking if we would like to have th

bible society. supreme court justices were. and so sit is a great story. >> chief justice john jay was a member of the american bible society. charles thompson who we talked about with the first translation of the american bible into english was a member of the first american bible society, and then elijah bow was the president of the the american bible society. and what is known as the ordination ser the tiff cat, and it was signed by francis as bury who is the first methodist missionary or the bishop the to come over to america, and why this is important in our exhibition is that as bury was approached and george washington and spoke to him about the e emancipation of freeing the slaves as far as back of our first president. and so we have have a waxed sealed paper signed by francis as bury. and so the artifact complicates the story as we walk through, and now here you have bibles within the collection of the museum of the bible and we have cherokee, chippewa, and bla blackfoot and various transla

he's not quoting the bible. that's what i find fascinating and he's using biblical language to add a gravitas, if you will, to the speech that he is giving. third, the bible was used then as it is sometimes used today to identify and define normative standards and i'll give you an example of this, and first, they were used to marshal a biblical authority for a specific political agenda and policy objectives and it was also used to gain insights into the character and designs of god especially as they pertain to god's oversight of the material world. and more specifically, his dealings with many nations. i heard in the last session about franklin's speech and i see hints of this particular use of the bible. how does god deal with nations? what does he expect of a nation? but i think it is very important to recognize these very distinct uses of the bible. it's important in so far as we are misleading to read spiritual meaning into literary and political use of the bible just as it is misleading to do exactly the o

bible in the painting.s is where we have scripture around us all day long and in many cases we don't even know it. phrases from our language that are used. judge jeanine: here you have victoria beckham with a tattoo that literally quotes the song of solomon that the bible is so relevant to so many people in so many ways we don't even recognize. one of the things you have done that speaks to how religion plays such an important part of your life is as a not for profit business owner of hobby lobby, you took the obama administration to the united states supreme court. you fought for religious freedom. you funded the case. the obama administration made a mandate that religion be damned and you would have to pay for abortaffacts for any employee in your employ. you felt that was a violation of your religious freedom. why? and how did it feel when you won? >> if life begins at conception as our family believes. to take part in an abortive drug or process, we view that as taking life. that is something that viola

bible study. that was their vision, to bring people here to be able to study the word of god. the only book we use here at the cove is the bible. so every teacher that comes uses the bible as their textbook. we have two hotels on the property, and then we have the main conference center. where we're sitting right now is the chapel, and my mother was very influential in a lot of what happened around here. but she loved the chapel, and she wanted to keep it simple. she said no stained glass windows. you cannot beat what god has put outside these windows, so no stained glass windows. she also came out when they were putting the steeple on, and she was not pleased at all because it was not high enough. so she would say it is not high enough. well, how high do you want the steeple? she said how high can that crane go? it kept going higher and higher and as soon as it could not g et any higher, she said that will be fine. i do not know if he had a goal. the he what he wanted to do, he wanted to serve go

the ultimate source is the bible. james madison's views on religious freedom were not the result of his reading of the bible. it's not the way things work. he was not a theologian. he wasn't a religious philosopher. nonetheless, it is evident he is adapting ideas developed by christian thinkers on the basis of the scriptures, and in that sense the bible had an influence on madison's conception of religious freedom. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, robert. our last speaker, dr. jacqueline rivers from harvard university, the executive director and senior fellow for social science and policy at the seymour institute for black church and policy studies. she's also a nonresident fellow at the institute for studies of religion at baylor. recent projects have focused on launching the black church commission on bioethics, human life and marriage and an international symposium on marriage and the family hosted by the vatican. she holds a ph.d. from harvard where she was a doctoral fellow in inequality and social

he used the bible in humor and with extraordinary mastery, and to knew the bible down his fingertips from cover to cover. another one, right here. >> we will go up front. >> i appreciate it. >> let's get it on the microphone. >> thank you for your speech, i appreciate it. i want to ask about george washington's philosophy about educating children. this will tie into his christian beliefs and morals, but i wonder if there are places where christians go to read about his philosophy. he had his education until the age of 11. i wonder what he would hope for our country that our children would learn. peter: excellent question. i can give you several thoughts, and you can put these together in your own research. number one, one of the providences of god is that washington's father died before he was able to go off to the appleby school in england where his older brother went. i wonder what would be different if he'd studied in england instead of america. that was a providential thing. it changed history. but he did have from his family heritage what are called the rules of civility. he cop

some say he only used the bible in jest. i have found over 200 biblical allusions, quotes, citations. i want to give you two that you can take away. his favorite bible verse. mica chapter four, verse four. his name for mount vernon -- vine and fig tree. they made him a soldier, a politician, and a president though he wanted to go home. he wanted america to be like this. that anyone can sit under their vine and fig tree. he wrote to the jewish people and said this is what america will be for you. fulfilling a dream. he uses the word millennium. a place of peace where you will be able to sit under your vine and fig tree and there will be none to make you afraid. that is that puritan eschatology. did you know what his great motto was? for my god and my country. was,he second great motto "deeds and not words. the you know where we find that equivalent? 3:18.p 1 john that was his second great motto according to his daughter. she had a bad temper. and he might have sworn if you times. i hate to see it -- i hate to say it. i have s

that's where she is to piece it anappeaseit and it inspired they from the bible. we had a couple of movies and it got good ratings so it does show people are about family and loved and it's gooloveand it's h and love. this day in time we don't have enough family stuff going on. it should be now with the love and acceptance and understandi understanding. >> we also have a special announcement. the library is partnering with the imagination library and to celebrate the program and what they are doing the last friday of every month is going to be a special imagination library storytime. to actually read right here and start the imagination storytime at the library of congress. [applause] i think we are going down. >> you hold onto me an on to mel hold onto them. what's your name? it's supposed to be me when i was little. it starts with the piece pretty pictures of my mom and dad and brothers and sisters. it says i go wandering once again back to the seasons of my youth and i recall a box of rags someone gave us and how my mom put those rags to use and every piece was

of the united states, and then he would become the very first united states citizen to translate a bible in america. so he is an interesting fellow, he was. >> so as we continue the journey, you are looking at at several of the screens. these take on various debates of history

and my mother would read from the bible and tell us the bible stories, so that was actually the first book we had in our home in the one that meant the most and actually followed me more then any other book through my life. >> and you keep reading it? guest: i do. i love to read. i have tissues everywhere, excuse me. i need one right now. but, anyway i love to read and i do whatever it takes, but actually love, any time i was in school i loved the fairytales and wanted to read the books about the kings and queens, so books have been a special thing for me. host: with your busy schedule, how do you make time to read because you are still performing and doing so many things. guest: i always take time to read. everyone that loves to read you find the time to read. i do sum up my best thinking when i'm reading if you know and, i mean. i read probably at least 52 books a year, a book a week i try to read and so i have always been a reader, but part of my brain that can think of other things while i'm actually reading, but it does relax my body and i just always loved to read because i thin

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in a research lab in palo alto, there were two bible studies weekly. apparently there had been a young man before me that had become a catholic priest. three of my friends from there became full time christian missionaries. so it's a hot bed for christian calling and ministry. >> these gentlemen are out of the semi conductor industry. >> yes, research, scientific environment. >> so you found your way into religion and priesthood and your priesthood seems to be a scholarly one and pastoral one. >> right. >> can you tell us what you do? >> at present i am working at the newman center, pan grove, mailing address california. also working and teaching in the seminary, courses on the gospels. john. and another course on matthew, mark, luke. >> this is a catholic chaplain at a university. so you are acquainted with the ancient text. you are acquainted with today's young people. and you have some theological literary and scientific knowledge with which you are equipped. we have you here today to talk about the resurrection. was the resurrection a key part of y

i have to stay grounded and get back to the bible. i have a great bible study with some of the girls at fox. fox allows me to talk about this on-air. i don't want to push this on anyone. i don't want to tell people you have to worship a certain way. i'm here to tell you my personal experience. i grew up in a family. we went to formal churches. i love the formal churches but i love going to praise and worship churches. they are all wonderful and you have to find where you will be fed and what's best for you. we grew up in a private family. we talked about it at the kitchen table but it was generic. we would never talk about it at a dinner table. we didn't talk about money. those are two things we never talked about. times have changed and we are losing some of our faith. you hear celebrities bashing god and bashing christians so, you can sit back and say god is overcome and take heart but jesus is not a door matt. mat. with love you are wrong. you can say that. i remember my mom correcting me about something i was doing. she said i as

some say he only used the bible in jest. i have found over 200 biblical allusions, quotes, citations. today i want to give you two that maybe you can take away. his favorite bible verse. uses it over 30 times. micah chapter four, verse four. every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree and there will be none to make them afraid. that was his name for mount vernon -- he wanted to go to his vine and fig tree. they never let him go, they made him a soldier, a politician, and a president though he wanted to go home. he said, i want america to be like this, that everyone can sit under their vine and figtree and no one will trouble you. he wrote to the jewish people and said this is what america will be for you. finally, fulfilling this dream. he actually uses the word millennium. two occasions. a place of peace where you will be able to sit under your vine and fig tree and there will be none to make you afraid. that is that puritan eschatology. did you know what his great motto was? for my god and my country. and the second

an intense bible study. so that was their vision, to bring people here to be able to study the word of god. the only book we use here at the cove is the bible. and so every teacher that comes uses the bible as their textbook. we have two hotels on the property, and then we have the main conference center. where we're sitting right now is the chapel, and my mother was very influential in a lot of what happened around here. but she loved the chapel, and she wanted to keep it simple. she said no stained glass windows. you cannot beat what god has put outside these windows, so no stained glass windows. she also came out when they were putting the steeple on, and she was not pleased at all because it was not high enough. so she would say it is not high enough. well, mrs. graham, how high do you want the steeple? she said how high can that crane go? it kept going higher and higher and as soon as it could not get any higher, she said that will be fine. i do not know if he had a goal. he knew what he wanted to do, h

and the bible is actually open to averse that is specific to our family and we have it over our mantle i feel like we've had it our whole life but that is a little tidbit. that isn't mentioned but it is their. >> when we end the book charlotte did a lot of research and put things in the back as resources because she was something teachers or parents or kids might use to go through actual facts of the vice presidency so we wanted the bidens and their and the quails put in for that we were very thankful for that. [laughter] it's hard to go to a public pool but also the bidens it tells about the resources and what they did to the property which was very sweet so we did add a beehive. we had were not the governor's residence and lung -- in indiana and there is one at the white house that is where the the first things i asked is do we have beehives so now we do at the vice president's residence so charlotte wrote it cute to say the observatory is now home to over 30,000 bees as well. so now i know you have some questions. >> or any of your other pets jealous? >> yes. we do have a story abou

. >> i don't want a person standing inside the building of a public school giving out bibles. i don't want kids being prossthre tiesed in school to join another religion. i think prayer and religion is a private matter and it doesn't belong in a government school. >> everybody, including athiests, live according to their faith. it's just what they decide to put their faith in. >> i think finding a balance between this is what the school system is, this is where we allow religious voices to be heard, so there is an outside morality shaping how we do things, yet there is a guard in that sense. >> because of so many different perspectives, school board officials are confronted with challenging situations. >> and decisions have to be made whether or not religion should be allowed in public schools. they started every school day with prayer. that got challenged. they moved to a moment of silence, meditation. but that was all a result of the fact that schools were being challenged across the country under the establishment clause about having somebody get up and say a christian pray

limelight and lived as a monk in a french ministry for six years there he drew inspiration from the bible and read songs in latin she brew and gaelic. he released them in twenty sixteen on a spiritual pop music album titled which is hebrew for spirit play people out there. have a spiritual dimension to their music but very public about it i just can't express a chapter in my life through an art form. what's unique about michael patrick kelly's album is that he produced it without the support of the major label even so i'm a detention germany's top twenty. kelly has enjoyed success with both secular and religious pop music. the band's piggy bank is all about the christian faith. the musicians belong to him in an evangelical free church community in leipsic they want to praise the lord through their songs. catching up beat pop music. heavy metal band stocking feet are another german group rocking the christian church. for more than twenty years the band has been proving that expressions of faith and heavy metal can gauge together satan doesn't get a look in here. just give jess unger hawked

the bible says that god can give you riches without sadness.aying you're rich and really happy simultaneously? no, what i said is i am blessed with riches or without riches. are there misconceptions about you? people were telling me you have a privatejet. no, i don't. a rolex. the church has a private jet, a smalljet. oh, the church does. it's for six people. it is an incredible place. i have never seen a church like this in my life. it's amazing. yes. was this made on people's donations? yes. how much did it cost to build? millions. 45. when you got 45 million, did you think, maybe i could build ten hospitals? sometimes we have more people getting healed here than in hospital. so we are healing. i had seen one video online i was particularly amazed at. it showed cash luna using the power of the bible to take over people's bodies. i'd heard it got him a lot of attention, so i wanted to ask about it. there's an amazing video. you lay down a bible and there's people walking and then they... yeah, this is one of the more polemic videos. it's amazi

bible, you look throughout the bible in the old testament and what god made them. a terrorist and wrote two thirds of the new testament. what is to say that trump hasn't changed as of yet and has a connection with god? why'd you always bash the man and prejudge him by whom he was but not by who he is? if you look at the direction, or blacks are being educated, making more money right now. the economy is on a good uptick. i don't hear a positive thing about trump coming out of the black community. host: reverend douglas? guest: yes, again thank you caller for your comments and thank you for listening in. i think that one of the things we have to understand is what we is no one canout argue about the state of anyone's personal salvation. what we can talk about is the vision that one puts forth for the country. policieslk about the that one puts forth. we can talk about this vision of making america great again with policies and relationships to law and order in relationship to our cities. we can talk about the rhetoric that surrounds this in relationship to immigrant

it showed cash luna using the power of the bible to take over people ‘s bodies.t of attention, so wanted ask about it. there is an amazing video of, you lay down the bible, and now people walking... this is one of the more polemical videos. it is amazing. explain how god comes through. this is a wall. if you see the video, and you won‘t bear, you would understand nothing. can we walk with you? it would be nice to see... it was time for cash to head back on stage. it is not ha rd to to head back on stage. it is not hard to see why he does this. he has got thousands of adoring fans, he owns one of the biggest churches in the world, and he has a privatejet. and this shows you how big religion is here, this isjust one church. my time with cash luna had not worked out like i hoped. he seemed annoyed by my interview, maybe he didn‘t like the questions i asked. and he did not want to meet again in a few days later at wii has —— as we had originally agreed. but cash luna is not the only pasta like this. guatemala is full of these people. and passes from all over are tryi

bush's children and grandchildren is expected to offer readings from the bible and honor the memory of the

>> a whole bible is on here?so the whole 1,245 pages. >> ...lunar bibles, the lost books of apollo. >> well, reverend stout and his wife,en they left nasa, just kind of vanished from the pages of history. >> until a court puts them under a microscope. >> you're saying that her intentions were sinister? >> and the value of each tiny bible -- out of this world. >> items that have gone to the moon can command six or seven figures. >> if you do the math, that's a lot, a lot of money. [ door creak]

according to the bible the answer to how the brutal persecutor of christians became an apostle who spread the gospel of christ can be found on the road to damascus. as he near damascus on his journey suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him he fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him saul saul why do you persecute me. this is how saul's conversion is described in the act of the apostles. he grabbed his poems for damascus and i believe that paul had a deeply existential experience on the road to damascus it's cup herson all experience that's how he encountered christ and that's what made him change his life radically and it wasn't because of some medical phenomena some incidental experience some random association but because of something that touched him existentially he's existence had the toughness. whatever happened on the road to damascus paul was now convinced god had chosen him to go out into the world and speak to all people. actually an impossible mission and a dangerous one. immediately after his damascus experience paul is said to have visited the christian communi

the bible is my guide. >> yes. arthel: i talked to jesus this morning, god too.ever, not everybody is christian. so don't they have a right to follow the beliefs of their faith. >> everybody has the right to be wrong. but the fact is, jesus is the savior of everyone who believes. but remember, arthel, it was jesus who said i am the way, the true and the life, no man comes to the father except by me. jesus said there's one way to heaven, not to keep people out of heaven but to allow them into heaven. and you know, there are many way to heaven, many way to god, then the death of jesus was totally unnecessary. the reason he gave his death on the cross was because he was the only hope for man kind. arthel: this is where it's going to get controversial. what you're saying -- i agree with you. the bible is my guide and i talked to god this morning and jesus all of the time. and i'm fine with saying that. but you know, for you to say that jesus is the only way, god is the only way, there are people who don't agree with you. why are they wrong because they don't agree wi