... ACoC creates new resources for worship

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The FNV translates names into English phrases that make the name more than a label, for example Titus is “Big Man” (Titan).

This is especially meaningful when the name Jesus is rendered as “Creator Sets Free,” a steady reminder that Jesus’ name (Yeshua) described how He would “set his people free from their bad hearts and broken ways” (Matt. 1:21, FNV).

The FNV aims high, trying to overcome 500 years of English-language translations grounded in English and American majority culture.

In my use of the FNV so far, I am encouraged by how it rises to the occasion. I hope it will inspire individuals and congregations to think about, and be reshaped by, the way Scripture speaks in and through the cultures of this land.