Pilgrims are flowing back to the traditional site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordan River as Israel removes 40-year-old land mines and improves the area, but barbed wire and armed soldiers testify to the area’s tense past.

The King James Bible, translated from ancient Greek and Hebrew in 1611, is, by virtually all accounts, the most awe-inspiring work of English prose ever written.

“God saved my life in Christ 2000 years ago,” says Anne Apple, “but my participation in the ministry of The Company of New Pastors literally saves my life in the work of daily ministry.”