This eleven-year-old Lutheran lad from Texas ticks off all 66, Old Testament and New — but that’s of course the Protestant version. Better still, he finds Jesus in every one. Joe Carter declares he’s “such an impressive preacher he could be mistaken for a Baptist.” Not for a Roman Catholic, I think…

David Gibson is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and an occasional contributor to Commonweal.

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