This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Pastoral LifeThe circuit-riding Baptist minister Rome Wager breaks a horse on ranch land he leases at the southern end ...

Its cadence is found in the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the lyrics of Paul Simon. Renowned narrator Alexander Scourby and country music legend Johnny Cash have recorded spoken versions of the text ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

If you ask a Christian they will say there are key differences between the Christian and Catholic faiths. And, there is right down to the books included in each of their bibles. It can be the deal ...

(RNS) — Controversy over a new Bible, inspired by Lee Greenwood’s song ‘God Bless the U.S.A.,’ caused a Christian publisher to back out of the project. But the company behind the project still thinks ...

(Female voice): The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… (Female voice): For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. KIM LAWTON, correspondent: The ...

In Begat, David Crystal sets out to prove that the King James Bible has contributed more to the English language than any other literary source. If you've ever "fought the good fight" or chuckled at ...

THIS PAST YEAR, the four hundredth since the initial publication of the King James Bible, was marked by a spate of celebratory commemorations on both sides of the Atlantic. After all, our canonical ...