The Dead Sea scrolls will now be accessible for public viewing, and you don’t even need to leave your home to see them. Orchestrated under the Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) with support from Google, the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is a free, online archive comprised of thousands of high resolution fragments. History, now, is Read more
The number of children in England regularly hearing or reading Bible stories has halved in the last 20 – 30 years. The results come from a study by the Bible Society that says stories such as ‘Noah’s Ark’, ‘Adam and Eve’, and even the story of ‘Christmas’ is at risk of being lost to future Read more
A baby name website has predicted that more parents will be choosing traditional Biblical names for their children this year, a trend that one expert says is a sign of people’s renewed hope in their faith. “Biblical names surging back into our culture is a great turn for the better. After many years, it shows Read more
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano was sworn in for his second term Thursday, taking the oath of office on an iPad with the Bible displayed on the screen. A printed copy could not be located. During an almost three hour ceremony, Mangano address a standing-room-only audience and recalled his rise to the county’s highest office. Read more
On a dark, damp and expensive Tuesday night at Sotheby’s auction house in Manhattan, one of the 11 surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book (and the first book of Scripture) printed in English in America, was sold for the highest price ever recorded for a print book in open sale. The Read more
I am fascinated by how Doctor Who slips under the radar of contemporary scepticism in a way that Christianity doesn’t. Perhaps its simply because it doesn’t assert itself as being true. The Bible is extremely weird in places: monsters with horns on their horns, men wrestling with angels, devils entering pigs, floods covering the whole Earth, people Read more
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 Read more
One in three state primary and intermediate schools teaches religious instruction, according to a survey which has triggered debate over what children are being taught. Here, the chief of the Churches Education Commission, Simon Greening, and the survey’s author, David Hines, present their views: For Why should New Zealand primary schools continue to offer a Read more
A Bible with an inscription from Albert Einstein has sold for US$68,500 (NZ$88,012) at an auction in New York City. The German-born physicist and his wife signed it in 1932 and gifted it to an American friend named Harriett Hamilton. The Bible’s final price far exceeds its pre-sale estimate of between US$1,500 and US$2,500. Continue Read more
When Grace L. Fabian forgave the man who murdered her husband, she was simply following her faith. She and her husband arrived in Papua New Guinea on the Fourth of July 1969 to work with Wycliff Bible Translators, producing literacy materials and translating the New Testament. They had four children, all born in Papua New Read more