Grounding the "new evangelization" in the Word of God just makes sense. That's why I'm delighted to learn of a new major project that aims to help our faith communities understand the Bible.
America magazine announces a two-year, multi-platform project in collaboration with the American Bible Society aimed at promoting deeper engagement with the Bible.
According to America's editors, this series of articles celebrates the fiftieth anniversary (in 2015) of "Dei Verbum" [the Vatican Document, "The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation]. The series will be "organized around five themes drawn from 'Dei Verbum': Conversion through Scripture; Praying with Scripture; Worshipping with Scripture; The Aesthetics of Scripture; and The Theology of Scripture."
Dianne Bergant (2012 speaker for our annual Celebration of Sacred Scripture) contributes the first article, "The Bible Reborn: Rediscovering the Riches of Scripture" which appears in the January 20-27 issue of America. You can read the article--and access complementary articles and tools--online by clicking here: http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/bible-reborn.
I recommend this article for Bible lovers of all kinds, and particularly for anyone considering enrolling in the Biblical School in 2014.
