Rihanna can sing about a “thief in the night” without any idea she’s alluding to 1 Thessalonians 5:2.
Studies show a majority of Americans never read the Bible, and only 11 percent claim to read it daily. Yet among millennials and skeptics in the West, biblical literacy is at an all-time low. The influence of the Bible-and the New Testament in particular-on the course of history and culture is incalculable. “I believe that there is nothing and no one more beautiful, deeper, more sympathetic and more reasonable, courageous and more perfect than Christ,” he wrote in 1854.įor the rest of his life, Fyodor Dostoevsky never parted with that copy of the New Testament, weaving its imagery and message into the fibers of works we cherish today like The Brothers Karamazovand Crime and Punishment. Over the following 10 years of hard labor, that New Testament became a lifeline to him.
On a cold and dark Siberian winter’s day in 1850, an inmate at a Tobolsk prison was handed a New Testament-the only book prisoners were permitted to own and read.
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