Jeff Cavins Devoted His Life to Culture of Scripture: His Great Adventure Catholic Bible is Now №1
Author of top book, podcast: We must build a ‘Culture of Scripture’ for our children, grandchildren
The №1 Bible begat the №1 podcast. Both began because a 25-year-old wanted to turn the world’s most complex book into something simple.
Jeff Cavins, now 63, was raised Catholic and spent 12 years as an evangelical Protestant pastor before returning to the Catholic Church. He remembers the turning point in his lifelong quest.
It was the 1980s, and he was sitting in his car listening to a cassette tape in a University of Minnesota parking lot. The answer to Cavins’ biggest Bible question came from a totally unexpected source: archaeology.
Bible college taught details — but not the overarching story
“It was in my first year as a senior pastor, at 25, after Bible School and years of studying, I realized that I knew the individual stories of the Bible, but I didn’t know the over-arching story of the Bible,” Cavins said. “In other words, I couldn’t walk you through the entire thing.”
