TO QUOTE
“Get ready for total inundation.”
- Market researcher Debra Aho Williamson of eMarketer who says 20 million children will be members of virtual communities by 2011, up from 8 million now. (New York Times)
“Gee, he’s not some kind of crazy Christian. He’s an ordinary American.”
- A New Hampshire voter who saw GOP candidate Mike Huckabee play bass guitar with local rock band Mama Kicks (New York Times)
“Even this film – every major decision I made, I made through prayer, about who I was picking to be in it, what it was I was trying to say, praying the film was saying the right thing and would reach the right people. It’s every aspect of it. Every aspect of it. That’s how I start every day, and it’s how I end every day.”
– Denzel Washington, on how he went about crafting “The Great Debaters,” which he directed and starred in. (Beliefnet)
“When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”
– Shinya Yamanaka, the Japanese researcher who helped spearhead a new procedure that could create stem cells without destroying embryos. (Time)
“… Adolescents, youths, and even children are easy victims of the corruption of love, deceived by unscrupulous adults who, lying to themselves and to them, draw them into the dead-end streets of consumerism.”
– Pope Benedict XVI (Associated Press)
“Pop culture is a cause of social change, not a cause of social change.”
- Conservative pundit John Podhoretz (New York Times Magazine)
On the Radar
IBS Releases New and Improved Urban Youth Bible
The International Bible Society released
My City My God February at the Reload Urban Youth Conference in Denver. The Urban Outreach New Testament uses the TNIV version and includes testimonies from urban youth in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York. IBS worked with YouthPartnersNet and other ministries on the project.
“Urban youth have more access to bullets than Bibles,” said YouthPartnersNet President Dean Cowles. “Survival is the name of the game in the ‘hood, and a $60 Bible is way down the list of necessities. And small-print, black-and-white pocket versions given out at street fairs and homeless meals don’t get much attention from youth who either can’t read, won’t, or just don’t.
An earlier version of the urban youth Bible project was released in 1998 and sold 475,000 copies.
My City My God is available from IBS,
of IBS-STL Global, for $1.99 each or $1.59 each in a case of 40 ($63.60 a case). A revised Spanish edition is planned. For more information, go to
ibsdirect.com