Texas Mayor Proclaims 2014 Is ‘The Year of The Bible’

Texan Mayor Officially Declares 2014 ‘The Year of the Bible’ (Mediaite)

A North Texan mayor has caused a stir by formally declaring 2014 the “Year of the Bible,” and he hopes to do the same for 2015.

Flower Mound’s Mayor Tom Hayden made the official proclamation at a city council meeting in December. “I was nervous about doing this,” he said. “And I’ve been thinking about it for two years and procrastinated about if for as long as I possibly could.”

The mayor made his declaration in an attempt to get the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb to “connect” through the Bible. In addition, a website called thebible2014.com was created by the Calvary Chapel of Flower Mound as a “connecting point to fulfill the Mayor’s vision,” offering residents a new piece of scripture daily so that “at the end of the year, they’d have gone through the whole Bible in a year.”