{"id":6101,"date":"2009-11-01T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T11:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/the-mosaic-bible.html"},"modified":"2009-11-01T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T11:42:30","slug":"the-mosaic-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/the-mosaic-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mosaic Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mosaic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Mosaic.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"368\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Mosaics are folks who cobble things together from a variety of traditions and who have little desire to trust only one tradition or commit themselves to only one point-of-view. But, when all put together, a coherence emerges. Mosaic, in other words, is a good word to describe the Church&#8217;s unity for many of us. Instead of opting for a more visible or institutional unity, many of us believe the diversity is swallowed into the larger unity of what God is doing in this world.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This Bible is shaped by one doctrine: one, holy, universal and apostolic church.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1414322038?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1414322038\">Holy Bible: Mosaic NLT (Meditations)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1414322038\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/strong><\/em>, the new Bible from Tyndale and using the New Living Translation (yours truly was part of the translation team for Luke), expresses this &#8220;mosaic&#8221; approach to the Church very well. This new Bible is two books in one: a weekly devotional, shaped by the Church Calendar &#8212; hence a perfect time to buy this Bible so you can begin using it at Advent, along with the full NLT. Books of prayer often don&#8217;t have Bibles so one has to have both the book and the Bible. This combines the two.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The highlight of this Bible is the diversity of authors and readings, along with profound artwork, that provides a multi-sensory experience of devotion.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosaics are folks who cobble things together from a variety of traditions and who have little desire to trust only one tradition or commit themselves to only one point-of-view. But, when all put together, a coherence emerges. Mosaic, in other words, is a good word to describe the Church&#8217;s unity for many of us. Instead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Mosaic Bible - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/the-mosaic-bible.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mosaic Bible - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mosaics are folks who cobble things together from a variety of traditions and who have little desire to trust only one tradition or commit themselves to only one point-of-view. 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