McCary’s Slang Edition of Bible Is Defended

Fundamentalist critics of P.K. McCary’s Black Bible Chronicles (“Lighten Up, King James,” Sept. 25) obviously just don’t get it. McCary’s targets are exactly the ones who most need to hear the message of the Bible.

Is it not written in the Gospels that “the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost”? And did not the Apostle Paul write that in order to win converts, he identified with those he was trying to reach? (1 Corinthians 9:19-23)

I say more power to McCary. She is obviously taking the message to those who need it the most by translating it into language that they can understand.

Those who denounce her book as blasphemous and who would limit the methods God choose to do His work to their own particular brand of orthodoxy might do well to take another look at the parable of the lost sheep.

MICHAEL LIFTON

Pasadena