By Rev Mark Woods2020-06-03T00:00:00
Bible Society is not happy with the way President Trump used scripture as a prop, says Mark Woods
A picture of the Bible has flashed all around the world. It’s on every news channel and in every newspaper.
As Bible Society - an organisation devoted to distributing and promoting the Bible - we might be expected to be happy about that. But we’re not.
The Bible in question was held by President Trump, who’d taken a short walk from the White House to St John’s Episcopal Church. The area in front of the church had been cleared by police using tear gas against the demonstrators who were protesting the killing of George Floyd by a white policeman who knelt on his neck.
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