From 6/13/06
From the guy who brought us the Message! Really humble man - first off, I had no idea that he's 73 and lives on a lake in Montana. He started by doing Galatians for his church, folks liked it, and eventually he was asked to do the whole NT. To his critics he say that every translation is just that, a translation. A literally literal translation would not have meaning (as I know from NT Greek!). Further, the NT was not written in a "high church" or "holy" language, but rather in the vernacular.
He's also a big proponent of practicing Sabbath and has done so for years with his family. Typically they hike, being in the mountains and all. I like his practice of hiking intentionally in silence until lunch, then discussing the musings of the soul on the way out.
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