The best-seller of all time

The word of God is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path, and a sure­fire way to enhance the bot­tom line, accord­ing to the New Yorker.

I recently sat in on an Alpha class with the lead­er­ship of our church, and the topic was the bible. The class began with a read­ing from the Alpha leader’s guide about how the bible is the best-selling book of all time. I remem­ber think­ing that, yes, I’m sure it’s a steady seller year after year, but best seller of all time? Wouldn’t the New York Times best seller list be awfully pre­dictable if that were the case? Why don’t we see “The Bible” up there along with Danielle Steele’s lat­est crapfest each week?

While the arti­cle doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily answer that ques­tion, there’s some inter­est­ing stuff in there.

I can’t put my fin­ger on it, but some­thing seems weird about this description:

…Women of Faith, a trav­el­ling min­istry that holds two-day “spir­i­tual spas” attract­ing as many as twenty thou­sand pay­ing worshippers.

Come to think of it, maybe it’s the whole “pay­ing wor­ship­pers” thing.

And, if Samuel L. Jack­son as God wasn’t enough to get you inter­ested in the audio bible mar­ket, how about this:

Jason Alexan­der, of “Sein­feld,” is signed on for an unspec­i­fied Old Tes­ta­ment character.

My money’s on Job. George Costanza as Job seems too per­fect to pass up.

Pop­u­lar­ity: 16% [?]