• The International Bible Society, which has been distributing Bibles to hotels, military personal, immigrants, hospital patients, and churches since 1809, announced that it will merge with Send the Light, an organization founded in 1957 that distributes Christian evangelical literature.
  
  
• An article in Christian News Wire explains the controversy surrounding Bible Literacy Project (BLP), which has produced a guide for high school English and Social Studies courses studying the Bible. The article is critical of some of the contributors to the project who have questioned the authority of the King James Version's translation of the Hebrew Testament and doubt the accuracy of the Goliath story.
  
  
• The Bible weighs in on Indonesia's national debate over Polygamy. A reader in The Jakarta Post responds to an article that claimed the Bible condoned polygamy.
  
  
• A man from Guyana explains the Bible's stance on gambling as part of a larger debate on impending casino legislation.
  
  
• Michael Huffington, an executive producer of the soon-to-be released documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, describes what his "struggle between what I thought the Bible said literally, and what the Bible meant."
  
  
• The new lawsuit that Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed against Northwest Marriage Institute, a Biblically-based education program, could have wide implications for all federally funded faith-based education programs.
  
  
• Rep. James E. Clyburn (a Democrat from South Carolina), wants to turn the Congressional focus on "values" to Old Testament values of "taking care of widows and orphans."
  
  
• A reader who describes himself as an "Orthodox Christian" responds to the recent controversy over an agnostic Anglican bishop in New Zealand.