Man tweets Bible in three years

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

It took Chris Juby, the Director of Worship at King’s Church in Durham, England exactly three years and three months to summarise the entire Bible into 1,189 tweets.

He, says that he won’t be tweeting from @biblesummary any longer.

There were times during Juby’s Twitter journey through the Bible when he didn’t know if he would make it. It’s quite a long book and, he admits, not every bit is equally interesting. Read more:

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