The residency turned into a fulltime job, then various editorial positions over the next several years before his family returned to Oregon, where he engaged deeply with the tight knit and influential community of Christian writers rooted in the Portland area, including Luis Palau, Donald Miller, John Mark Comer, and many others. Numerous mentors there gave of their time to help me grow. “I showed up to CT with passion and openness. “While I’d been writing for a long time, I had no formal journalism experience. Since high school, Pastor had written songs, poetry, fiction, and creative writing, but CT was his first step into publishing. We loaded up a cooler with dry ice and beef and drove here sight unseen.” “We had a one-and-a-half-year-old and second one on the way. “We, in just a matter of a couple of months, packed our little red station wagon,” said Pastor. After graduating from Western Seminary, he joined Christianity Today in 2011 after he was nominated for an editorial residency with former CT publication, Leadership Journal. Pastor has spent most of his life in his home state of Oregon, but his career did have a Chicagoland interlude. It so effectively spoke against this false narrative that guys don’t care about the Bible and that coastal or progressive areas don’t care about the Bible.” “The fact that their average donor for a crowd-funded project is a young male in his late teens to early 20s, is amazing to me. “The Bible Project’s metrics undo many common assumptions about biblical literacy or interest today,” said Pastor. “It never dumbs the Bible down.”Īmong many demographics, the ministry has especially resonated with a group that some Christians have been tempted to write off. It honors the questions and the personhood of the person engaging it,” he said. Often, we’re not answering the questions people are really asking.”īut Pastor found that the Bible Project’s series excelled at “distilling deep concepts into readily accessible themes.” “We frequently position it in ways that aren’t compelling or that carefully deal with the history or formation of the Bible. “Biblical literacy is close to my heart,” said Pastor. A story about two guys telling stories from the great story of God and humanity, hoping people integrate that story into their stories.” The judges continued, “A narrative matryoshka masterpiece. “Vividly narrating video is a fraught undertaking, but this captured me.” “The opening paragraphs are worth the price of subscription,” wrote the EPA judges, commenting on Pastor’s description of a Bible Project video short of Job. In the most recent award season, the cause was Bible literacy. Pastor profiled the team’s work for Christianity Today in “ How the Bible Project Is Using Video to Get People into Scripture Again.” The Evangelical Press Association (EPA) awarded Pastor’s article first place in its “Cause of the Year” award, a category that changes on an annual basis. Enter, Bible Project, a Portland-based animation studio that has taught millions about Old and New Testament stories, literature, and key themes through its video shorts that break down the ancient texts in accessible, entertaining, and educational ways. But even as the proliferation of types of print Bibles has rapidly increased in recent decades, so have other forms of Scriptural engagement, especially as digital technology has entered the picture. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, the number of translations available began to climb, along with a focus on individual Bible readership. What’s more, they had little access to texts in their first language. For years, the majority of early-Church believers were illiterate. Even as the Bible has remained the center of Christian faith for hundreds of years, engaging God’s Word has evolved.
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