Steve Green's museum of the Bible and/or his interpretation of it
Be sure to read Michelle Boorstein’s great WaPo magazine piece on the Bible museum being built in D.C. by Hobby Lobby president Steve Green. Boorstein focuses on the major question here: will this museum, set to open in 2017, primarily reflect Green the major collector of Bibles and biblical artifacts? Or Green the conservative evangelical political activist, poster child of evangelical opposition to the contraception mandate?
As Boorstein details, it could be either or both: the plans certainly reflect Green’s views in places, but they also involve some people with very different ones.
The article also points less directly to a more general, more familiar tension: between the older evangelical rhetoric of Christian American origins and more recent emphasis on religious freedom. Here’s a striking quote from Green, on the subject of the museum’s proximity to major federal government buildings:
