The Authorized infotainment documentary (emphasis on the -tainment, though I hope the info is good!) is now up on YouTube for free to everyone! This is kinda big! For some time it has been behind a paywall on FaithlifeTV. This project was one of the great privileges of my life, including getting to interview my hero John McWhorter in New York City in the basement of some random building (that’s Columbia University, where he teaches, in the background).
I’d really like to see this video reach a larger audience than it did behind the paywall. I made it to be about the most accessible, gentle critique of KJV-Onlyism available—and one that focuses on making a positive, constructive replacement for KJV-Onlyism. You can’t just critique bad ideas (though I had tons of fun doing that, especially with the “KJV-is-at-fifth-grade-reading-level” idea); you have to replace them with good ones. I tried to do that.
A small note I may have made before: I’d really like to see a KJV-Only leader acknowledge that, though he disagrees with my overall point, my arguments against the fifth-grade-reading-level meme persuaded him and he will stop using them. I’m praying for this to happen.