About us!   
The publisher of this Bible is Smith and Stirling Publishing at www.smithandstirling.com.  Smith and Stirling Publishing is an independent Australian publisher that will not be intimidated by subgroups of the Religious Right or other intolerant Fundamentalist Christian groups, nor will be bought out by other publishers who are a front for such groups.

The Religious Right and their allies own much of the world media, although even their smaller publications have proven influential. In 1998, World magazine published a cover story by Susan Olasky entitled, “Femme fatale: The feminist seduction of the evangelical church: The New International Version of the Bible - the best-selling English version in the world - is quietly going ‘gender-neutral’”. The article used sensationalist language and alleged a covert feminist agenda on the part of Bible publisher Zondervan. Soon after, World magazine produced a special edition which included only this article and one by Grudem, “Comparing the two NIVs.” Jerry Falwell ordered and distributed 50,000 copies of the edition. Money talks!

Susan Olasky is the wife of Marvin Olasky, George W. Bush’s religion and faith-based charity advisor when Bush was Governor of Texas. Olasky advised Governor Bush since 1993 and chaired Bush’s policy subcommittee on religion.
The then Governor Bush wrote the introduction to Olasky’s book, Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America. The book set out the way in which Governor Bush and his advisor Olasky intended to tear down the wall separating church and state. People who control Bible translation are politically powerful, have powerful friends and access to multi millions of dollars. The Bush administration channels millions of dollars of funding into the Religious Right, Pat Robertson having been a major recipient. These are the people who control Bible translation today.

In 2001, a well known theologian and businessman purporting to be a personal friend of former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft put pressure on Dr Nyland in an attempt to buy the rights to her translation. This is at the least unethical, as ethically the rights always remain with the Bible translator, and at the worst, can be seen as “privishing”, a term which means to buy the rights in order to ensure it never sees the light of day. That said, we have had, not surprisingly, significant trouble with the media with publicity for The Source. A publicist told us they have never encountered this before and are “starting to see all sorts of conspiracy theories”. Articles are getting pulled at the last minute. Smith and Stirling Publishing will publish those books which the Religious Right and their allied organisations otherwise suppress.   

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