Gideons International is an international organization which places free Bibles in hotel rooms worldwide. The idea for the organization came in 1898 after two traveling businessmen in Wisconsin shared a hotel room due to their hotel being overbooked. They discovered that they were both Christians and became friends.
In 1899, the two men and another businessman organized the Gideons in 1899 in Janesville, Wisconsin in a YMCA room. The Gideons "Bible Project" began in 1908. There are now Gideons in twenty- three countries/regions. They never charge for the placement of their Bibles.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Hotel in England Replaces Gideon Bibles With Amazon Kindles
In yesterday’s post, I spoke of a hotel in England which has replaced the Gideon’s Bibles
in its rooms with a soft-core pornographic novel. The owner of the hotel
insisted that the replacement was not out of hostile motives. It was just a business decision, and
besides ““I’ll keep a couple behind the reception desk so
that if any guest whose preferred bedtime reading happens to be the Bible finds
that they have forgotten to pack their copy, they’ll be pleased to read in the
guest handbook that they can borrow a copy from the receptionist.”
To the believing Christian,
to be benignly ignored, to be dismissed with subtle derision (as in the hotel
owner’s statement), or to be the subject of overt hostility, are all equally
insulting. As I have said before, they
really do not understand.
Another hotel in England has
also replaced the Gideon’s Bibles in their rooms, but this time, the move has
the assent of the Gideons. A
Gideons International spokesman, Ken Stephens, told CNN. “Anything to put the Bible in people's hands is a good thing."
The Hotel Indigo , in
Newcastle, has replaced their Gideon’s Bibles with Amazon Kindles pre-loaded
with an electronic version of the Bible.
The Kindles are the full device and are capable of other uses than
merely Bible reading.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Hotel in England Replaces Gideon Bibles With Fifty Shades of Gey
Jonathan Denby, the owner of the Damson Dene Hotel in
Bowness-on –Windermere, England, has decided to replace the Gideon’s Bibles in
his forty guest rooms with the soft porn novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. Denby says the move is in response to
guest requests and that few, if any, read the Bibles. Fifty Shades of Grey has a sado-masochistic theme.
Denby says that “I’ll keep a couple behind the reception
desk so that if any guest whose preferred bedtime reading happens to be the
Bible finds that they have forgotten to pack their copy, they’ll be pleased to
read in the guest handbook that they can borrow a copy from the
receptionist.” How nice.
The fact that the Gideons place their Bibles in hotels for
free and that Denby has had to buy his copies of Fifty Shades of Grey shows
that the replacement was an intentional choice. Denby bought the hotel facilities from a Methodist group
about ten years ago.
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