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Comment from Understand the Times:

UTT suggests that it is time for all Christians to have a reality check. What do you think is going on? Who cares if men like Rupert Murdoch have been awarded a papal knighthood by Pope John Paul II in 1998. Is there another agenda going on? Why would you want to reinvent Christianity in your own eyes. The scandal that Murdoch is facing in England should be another clue, should it not?

When UTT and others present the facts regarding what is going on, there are those who shout "slander" and "you are destroying my ministry." What is that about?

It is time to wake up and smell the roses.

July 18 - Did you buy your Bible from Rupert Murdoch?

Article: Misc.

Would you buy a Bible from Rupert Murdoch,, head of News Corp.? You probably already have.

His empire across the English speaking world includes not only the troubled tabs in the phone hacking scandal, as well as Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, but also Zondervan, the world's largest publisher of Bibles, which he's owned for 23 years.

Will Braun observes at the Holy Moly Blog:

Zondervan ... owns exclusive North American print rights to the popular New International Version of the Bible which it says has sold over 300 million copies worldwide. Zondervan also publishes books by leading Christian authors like Rick Warren (over 30 million copies of his Purpose Driven Life have been sold), Tim LaHaye, Jim Wallis, Eugene Peterson, Brian McLaren and Shane Claiborne.

Now Braun acknowledges that perhaps this is a teeny redeeming gesture for Murdoch who, he notes "was awarded a papal knighthood by Pope John Paul II in 1998." (It's an honorary title given to people of "unblemished character," including non-Catholics, who have worked for the good of society.)

And maybe, Braun writes, the link is too tenuous for a world with bigger woes than

... the ethics of Bible publishing ... It's just that I believe there should be absolutely no link at all. Bald greed has no place in Bible publishing...

We do not need to accept this arrangement. Christianity does not need to be about the best and biggest deal, and we can trust that the Good News does not require the help of an unscrupulous empire.

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