"I wrote the first-draft bible," Mr. Gerrold said.
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ESPN executives know the profile of the average American football fan watching those late rounds of the draft – devoted, traditional, Bible Belt.
EVERY year, as winter melts into spring, two books are published that in the world of football are referred to as the Bibles: specifically, draft books compiled by two football seers who divine which college players are the most promising for the National Football League.
This focus on accuracy was a challenge for Staten, as he believes his audience is highly intelligent, willing, and able to report flaws; fellow Bungie employees cross-referenced his drafts with the "Halo Story Bible" to ensure canonical agreement.
Charles Haynes, director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at Newseum in Washington, DC, has drafted several guides to usage of the Bible in public schools.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who drafted the forthcoming papal encyclical, drew on the Bible for his message this week: "The lesson from the Garden of Eden still rings true today: pride, hubris, self-centredness are always perilous, indeed destructive.
By the end of that month, Michael Piller drafted the first version of the writer's bible for the series in which the character was named "Chakotoy".
In 2012, he donated $500 to Costa Mesa Councilman Steve Mensinger's reelection campaign, and years earlier he drafted an initiative that would have allowed the Bible to be used as a textbook.
Email me here and I'll happily send you a draft of my thesis: Original Heresy: The light behind the shadows in the Bible.
But in a news conference Saturday, the archbishop in charge of the committee that drafted the communiqué, Cyrille Salim Bustros, appeared to go further, saying the Bible did not justify a Jewish presence in Israel.
