The Monitor, along with the rest of the Texas daily and weekly newspapers owned by Freedom Communications has been sold to AIM Media Texas LLC. A company that will be headquartered in McAllen .

The papers involved include the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, The Brownsville Herald and El Nuevo Heraldo in Brownsville, the Town Crier in Weslaco, Coastal Currents at South Padre Island and The Odessa American.

The leadership of AIM Media Texas has an intimate understanding of the Texas media landscape and is acutely aware of the key role newspapers play in the lives of the communities they serve.

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Authors have long taken seaside sabbaticals hoping to jump-start their creativity. Inspiration seems to preferentially strike on a serene seashore.

David Capes, a professor who teaches theology at Houston Baptist University, headed up the editorial committee that created The Voice. The media, from CNN to the Huffington Post to major newspapers, all keyed on what appears the be missing from this Bible, specifically the name Jesus Christ, but Capes is quick to point out that Jesus Christ is not a first and last name, but a bit of transliteration.

The Voice is the product of seven years of work by a diverse evangelical group that paired poets with professors in order to preserve the poetry and narrative, right down to formatting some sections along the lines of a Hollywood script.

It’s not the first time an island has figured in scripture, of course. The last book of the Bible, Revelation, was composed on another island, known as Patmos, which is located in the Aegean Sea.