Editorial November 21, 1988 Issue

To make the Bible come alive

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

It is a strange phenomenon: what we set out with such good intentions to honor, we often end up feeling routine about— almost too familiar with.

Most Christians want to honor the Bible. In many homes it has a place of respect, even veneration. Yet all too frequently it isn't a living force.

Some in the United States, who are legitimately concerned about the growing secularity of the age, hope to restore the Bible and religion to a prominent place in life. Like their counterparts in many areas of the world, they believe that if somehow government could be made to pay tribute to religion, it would bring about what is needed. But there is apparently no way to make the Bible come alive by institutionalizing it. The unfortunate truth is that it would probably result in just the opposite—in reaction, division, and finally, deadening routine.

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