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William Aberhart (December 30, 1878 – May 23, 1943), also known as "Bible Bill" for his radio sermons about the Bible, was a Canadian politician and the seventh premier of Alberta from 1935 to his death in 1943. [1]
From 1932 to 1935, Aberhart tried to get the governing United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) to adopt social credit. [2] However, the 1935 UFA convention voted against adopting social credit and UFA Premier Richard Reid rejected the proposals as being outside the province's constitutional powers, so Aberhart entered Social Credit candidates in that year's provincial election.
He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version (ESV) translation of the Bible, and serves on the New International Version (NIV) translation committee. [ 1 ] He is the founder and president of Biblical Training, a non-profit organization offering educational resources for discipleship in the local church.
While the legislature has repeatedly voted on proposals to make the Bible a state book, this is the first bill to be successful.In 2016, then-Gov. Bill Haslam vetoed a bill designating the Bible ...
A bill that seeks to make the Aitken Bible a state book of Tennessee, alongside nine other works, is headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk after it passed along party lines in a final Senate vote on ...
Bill Gothard received his BA in biblical studies from Wheaton College, 1957 and then his MA in Christian education in 1961. [8] He completed his Ph.D. in biblical studies at Louisiana Baptist University in 2004. [9] In 1961, Gothard started Campus Teams, [10] an organization which changed its name to the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts (IBYC ...
President Donald Trump did not place his hand on the Bible as he took the oath of office during his inauguration on Monday. First lady Melania Trump stood next to the president holding two Bibles ...
Lane was the author or editor of several notable works, including The Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Missions (1967), [2] The New Testament Speaks (1969), [8] The Gospel according to Marc in The New International Commentary on the New Testament (1974), [9] and the two-volume commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews in the Word Biblical Commentary (1991), which was awarded the 1993 ...
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