Word on the Street

Word on the Street is not what you would think it might be but a very modern version of the Bible formally titled the Street Bible!

This version certainly is an eye opener;

I laugh every time I hear the story from it of the "Shepherds of the hillside outside Bethlehem" - they have a new name that is "The Sheep Security team" and this is only one of many other such stories. Another one is named Delivery Suite 38b (Luke Ch;2 verses 1-7) and I quote:-

"He who must be obeyed, Augustus Ceasar, announces the Big Count up. He wants accurate population stats across the Roman Empire....... Everyone's expected to trek back to their family home town for registration."

"So Joe Davidson sets of on the 129-killometre trip south from Nazereth, County Galilee, to Bethlehem (aka Davidstown), County Judah. He takes his fiance, Mary who's pregnant and showing. They arrive and realize someone else is about to show! Her waters break. Crisis! "No Vacancy" signs in every B&B window. Decision. Joe delivers the baby in a shed full of livestock. Mary wraps strips of cloth round the baby and uses the animals' food trough as a cot. It's a boy!"

How's that for the story of Jesus Christ's birth in a version for all those teenagers and adults who need a kick start into reading the oldest and the most puplished book in the world. Also the most translated book in the world but this is just the perfect version for our young people to get inspired to read a standard version of the Greatest story ever told.

Dr David Trobish, Professor at Bangor Theological College said of Rob Lacey - "To think that the author Rob Lacey has help even a seasoned professor to discover the angry and sad voices in passages of the Bible that had left him indifferent, and made him laugh at the passages that were so familiar, that he had never seen the healthy irreverence, humour and irony that they expressed so sincerely!"

I have also spent time listening to the CD Version of Word on the Street it is amazing. It was read by Rob, and it is so dangerously real for today's world this wholesome retelling of the old old stories that we all heard at sunday school.

I love Word on the Street and think every school child should have a copy just to brighten up Religious Studies and make it lively and inspiring.