UPFRONT November 23, 2009 Issue

IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

STEVE GRAHAM,

It's a bestseller, year after year. It's the world's most translated book. It's a staple of hotel nightstands. The Holy Bible is found in over 90 percent of all American households.

I know, not everyone you meet reads and discusses the Bible, by any means. Many of those hotel copies probably go unread. And just because there's a Bible in the house, that doesn't mean it gets opened a lot. Nevertheless, the overwhelming presence of the Scriptures in people's lives speaks for itself, an implication that collectively we recognize it as worthy of possession. Truth-filled. Venerable.

Could it be all about the healing we all yearn for at some point or other, in one way or other? Times have changed, but humanity's search for healing surely has not. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, said plainly that "the Bible contains the recipe for all healing." That's from her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 406). And it's what you'll find Sara Hyatt discussing in our first article this week (which just happens to be National Bible Week!).

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