It’s a scene you can imagine happening at any backyard barbecue in Australia: three mates having a friendly discussion about same-sex marriage over a beer. Not much to get wound up about, right? Bible Society Australia has teamed up with Coopers Premium Light to produce a video an openly gay agnostic, and a Christian conservative, debate Read more
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Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone
Monday, March 6th, 2017Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone. The Pope urged crowds at St Peter’s Square to give the Bible the same place in their daily life as cellphones. He asked them: “What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the Read more
Passion for illustrating makes new Big Little Bible App a great success
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
The success of Bible Society New Zealand’s recently released Big Little Bible app and book has been largely credited to Catholic illustrator Meesh Holswich who played a significant part in its creation. Meesh’s art style means the pencil never leaves the page and actually dovetails in with the overall message of the Bible. “One line, Read more
Flat Earth Society
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
If you’re my age, you’ll remember the Flat Earth Society. It was a New Zealand off-shoot of a group in England that sincerely believed the earth was flat because the Bible said so. They had many scriptural references, including sayings of Jesus, and they considered the notion of a round planet to be the work Read more
‘Unwrapping’ an ancient, disintegrating Torah scroll
Friday, September 30th, 2016
More than 40 years ago, archaeologists discovered what appeared to be a hunk of scroll at the site of En-Gedi, an ancient Jewish community in modern-day Israel. The fragment was charred and crushed, and every touch seemed to hasten its disintegration. The Israel Antiquities Authority, which houses many artifacts from the region, locked the scroll Read more
Five lessons for parents from the Bible
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
The Bible is not a handbook on parenthood, or morality, or any number of other things for which handbooks are perfectly suitable. The Bible is a written testimony to the persistence of God’s grace throughout centuries as experienced by a particular people, in particular times and places. Scripture presents ancient families doing things that ancient Read more
Can you read the Bible in emoji?
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016The Bible has been translated into every imaginable language for centuries, but this seems to be a first: a complete King James Version Bible, Genesis through Revelations, all using emoji. The book “Bible Emoji: Scripture 4 Millennials”came out on iTunes’s Books app on last week. Can you decipher these verses from the new book? Click Read more
The writing of the Bible and shopping lists
Friday, April 15th, 2016
TEL AVIV — Eliashib, the quartermaster of the remote desert fortress, received his instructions in writing — notes inscribed in ink on pottery asking for provisions to be sent to forces in the ancient kingdom of Judah. The requests for wine, flour and oil read like mundane, if ancient, shopping lists. But a new analysis Read more
Unlikely a second Jesus sent to other life in universe
Friday, August 7th, 2015
Even if intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, it is unlikely a second Jesus was sent to save them, a Vatican astronomer says. Astronomers at the Vatican Observatory in Rome have said discoveries of new Earth-like planets have strengthened their belief that there could be life elsewhere in the universe. Fr Jose Funes, director Read more
World’s Largest Bible Printer Is In Atheist China
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015Though China is officially atheist, Christianity is growing, with believers now outnumbering communists. That’s good news for a huge Bible publisher that supports charities in China and Africa. In the soulless gray industrial zone near Nanjing’s South Railway Station are the sounds of rattling and roaring inside Amity Bible Printing Co. Without interruption, the printing Read more