{"id":152,"date":"2009-05-22T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-and-the-year-of.html"},"modified":"2009-05-22T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:39:23","slug":"the-bible-bill-and-the-year-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-and-the-year-of.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Bible Bill&#8221; and The Year of Living Dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a U.S. Senator has proposed that 2010 be designated the Year of the Bible (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22832.html\">Politico story here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/05\/year-of-the-bible.html\">Steven Waldman&#8217;s Beliefnet comments here<\/a>). Sorry, I just can&#8217;t talk about the proposed Year of the Bible with a straight face &#8230; but it does bring to mind a few &#8220;year of&#8221; phrases to talk about. Perhaps you have your own to add.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I saw <em>The Year of Living Dangerously<\/em> on a four-inch screen sitting in a hotel room in Suva, Fiji in the summer of 1985, while making preparations to head off to some outlying islands for a year-long project. The movie, directed by Peter Weir, features a young and restless Mel Gibson as a journalist covering politics in Indonesia during the chaotic events of 1962 &mdash; an attempted coup and the resulting violent government reprisals. He also did his best to cover a steamy British diplomatic staffer played by Sigourney Weaver, then managed to get off the island just before becoming an unwilling target of violence himself. Fiji, heretofore a peaceful and independent former British possession, was on the verge of its own time of troubles, which began with a military coup in 1987 and continues off-and-on to the present. I managed to get off the island, too, although Fiji was certainly no Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Year of Living Dangerously<\/em> beat out the Al Stewart album <em>Year of the Cat<\/em> for my vote &#8212; someone else will have to take that one. Any other nominations for &#8220;the year of &#8230;&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a U.S. Senator has proposed that 2010 be designated the Year of the Bible (see Politico story here and Steven Waldman&#8217;s Beliefnet comments here). Sorry, I just can&#8217;t talk about the proposed Year of the Bible with a straight face &#8230; but it does bring to mind a few &#8220;year of&#8221; phrases to talk&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;Bible Bill&quot; and The Year of Living Dangerously - Mormon Inquiry<\/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\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-and-the-year-of.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &quot;Bible Bill&quot; and The Year of Living Dangerously - Mormon Inquiry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So a U.S. Senator has proposed that 2010 be designated the Year of the Bible (see Politico story here and Steven Waldman&#8217;s Beliefnet comments here). 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