For a baby boomer named Rick, the cover of Good News for Modern Man evoked a flood of wonderful memories. Responding to an online survey that I conducted on the impact of this version of the Bible, ...

As head of translation for the American Bible Society, Eugene Nida oversaw one of the most important English translation projects of the 20th century: Good News for Modern Man. This Bible ...

Into this world came “Good News for Modern Man.” Published by the American Bible Society in 1966, “Good News for Modern Man” was a Bible for the young and disaffected. It resembled a mass ...

Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator of the Good News Bible which became a best-selling version in the 1970s, died July 10 at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 90.