New President of Ghana and the ESV
The new President of Ghana, John Atta Mills, holds a copy of the ESV Bible as he is sworn in as the country’s new president on January 7, 2009.
One of the key factors in the growth of the ESV over the past few years has been Crossway’s partnership with the British & Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and distribution with numerous other Bible Societies around the world, including Ghana and other countries in Africa.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
As a Ghanaian teenager born in London, it’s a cool day when your homeland uses your favourite Bible translation to swear in its new President. Lord bless the work of Crossway and the Standard Bible Society.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Douglas,
Cool day indeed. Great photo!
January 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I don’t really understand the benefit. And this isn’t a criticism of the ESV or Crossway (I use the translation along with about 15 others in my study), it just seems to me that for a country where English is far from spoken by a majority of the population it would have been better to use a translation in a native language - even if it is an official language. Do we really want everyone reading the Bible in English…?
January 21st, 2009 at 9:32 am
The use of an English Bible was an obvious choice for two reasons -
[a] A large proportion of Ghanains use English to some degree although they love to use their birth-language in worship and to some extent in Bible Study.
[b] However, to have used even one of the major ethnic languages (Twi, Asante, Ga, Ewe etc) could have been considered divisive or biased.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I’m from Liberia, but spent most of my life in ghana.
i am glad that ghanaian have someone with the heart of God as the president
of ghana. may God blessed that country with many good leaders
i hope that president john atta mill will lead his country ghana
with good hands,
AMOS,USA
March 18th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Out of curiosity, what edition is that?
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
The problem is from my point of view, that I do not believe the Bible is the original holy book of Ghana. Perhaps there was no holy book of Ghana but it would make sense if the traditional religions of the country were used as the basis of swearing-in leaders instead of some Western religion. I mean he may as well be using the Koran. It is unreasonable to expect countries to give away their own beliefs and religions and impose Western religions on them. This goes to destroying their whole cultural heritage.