Bilingual English -- Everyday and Bible

The English that we speak at work or the dinner table is often the same English we speak at church. It wasn’t always so. The KJV offers a language that is slightly outside of everyday experience, which expands our capacity to contemplate, see, and know God. Before the modern era, when translations became more abundant, Christian English-speakers were basically bilingual—everyday English and KJV English existed side-by-side.

What I am proposing is a rediscovery and reinvigoration of this sort of English bilingualism. Reading a Bible that’s a little bit difficult, and unusual, is good for you.