Make America Great Again Lee Greenwood
Country music vocaliser Lee Greenwood's enduring patriotic hit "God Anoint the USA" is the inspiration behind a new custom Bible.
The "God Bless the USA Bible" not only includes the New International Version translation of the sacred text, but also copies of America'southward founding documents and the chorus of the well-known song Greenwood wrote in 1983.
The new Bible is a project of Elite Source Pro, a marketing consulting company in Wilson Canton that approached Greenwood almost signing onto the project.
The vocalist-songwriter said he thought the custom Bible was a yard thought. Greenwood said readers can refer to the Beak of Rights, U.Due south. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Fidelity located at the back of the Bible and know the country got its start non by escaping religion, but by escaping persecution.
"I couldn't believe there'd be a meliorate lucifer than faith and patriotism," Greenwood said in an interview with The Tennessean.
The name of his song appears on the cover of the religious tome, a detail Greenwood said is humbling.
From album filler to patriotic hitting
Greenwood, a conservative Christian who lives in Franklin, first cutting "God Bless the United states" for his 1984 album, "You've Got a Proficient Love Comin'." In a 2015 interview with The Tennessean, Greenwood said he wrote information technology equally album filler. But "God Anoint the USA" became a hit with staying power.
The single was named the Country Music Association's Song of the Year award in 1985 and information technology'southward made repeated appearances on the music charts, including topping the pop listing later 9/11 and climbing into the top five on the land singles chart in 1991, 2001 and 2003.
Artists similar Dolly Parton and Beyoncé accept covered "God Anoint the USA," and Greenwood, who performed at inaugural events for Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George Due west. Bush-league and Donald Trump, has sang it for the country's commander in chief.
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The "God Bless the Us Bible" can be pre-ordered for $49.99 and will transport in late September, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Sept. xi, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The timing is intentional, said Hugh Kirkpatrick, the Nashville native who leads Elite Source Pro. The goal was to commemorate the milestone ceremony and inspire unity, he said.
Creator says the intent is to bridge divides
The "God Bless the USA Bible" was built-in out of conversations he had last twelvemonth with friends in the music industry about division in America, Kirkpatrick said.
They were watching statues beingness torn down during last summer's police brutality protests, questioned whether social media was eroding privacy and raised concerns nigh freedom in general, said Kirkpatrick, who also shared the genesis of the new Bible with Religion Unplugged, a New York-based news arrangement.
"We put all that together in our thinking cap and we came upward with a custom, unique, limited edition 'God Bless the USA Bible,'" Kirkpatrick said in an interview with The Tennessean. "It's the Holy Bible. It just leans toward you're American and maybe you need to sympathise the documents backside America and what did these people believe?"
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Elite Source Pro, the creator and distributor of the "God Anoint the USA Bible," entered into a licensing agreement with Greenwood, Kirkpatrick said.
The company as well has a manufacturing agreement with Nashville-based HarperCollins Christian Publishing, which is the North American licensor for the NIV translation. Kirkpatrick described themselves as a client of the publisher, but specified that HarperCollins Christian Publishing is neither endorsing nor selling this item Bible.
Kirkpatrick knows the "God Bless the The states Bible" may confront pushback for binding the sacred text and founding documents together, but he said the intent of the custom Bible is bridging divides in America; it's not nearly right or left ideologies.
And Kirkpatrick said he does not run across it as an example of Christian nationalism, a cultural framework that wants a politically and religiously conservative expression of Christianity to have more access to power. Greenwood said he was not familiar with the term, simply said he does not think Christians should be given any more than rights than anyone else.
"We don't believe in Christian nationalism at all," Kirkpatrick said. "We really didn't worry about an extreme left or extreme right being upset … I recall well-nigh people that nosotros talk to they just want to live and dearest and get to work and live life."
Greenwood hopes the "God Anoint the U.s. Bible" will exist good for the country.
"We're offering a patriotic view of today'due south population in America," Greenwood said. "I hope it goes across America. I promise it goes to the globe."
Reach Holly Meyer at hmeyer@tennessean.com or 615-259-8241 and on Twitter @HollyAMeyer.
Source: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2021/05/18/lee-greenwoods-hit-song-inspires-new-god-bless-usa-bible/5082276001/
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