A 400 year old Bible has been found in a box at the bottom of a cupboard in Palmerston North. The Bible, now fully restored, will be dedicated at a special service at St Peter’s Anglican Church this Sunday before being put on permanent display. Continue Reading Anthony Tedeschi, who curates rare books at the Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
The Biblical Christmas was not about a baby in a manger
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
The Christmas season is a delightful jumble of traditions. Why are we singing about decking halls with boughs of holly, whatever “decking” means? Why isn’t, as one child asked, Santa in the nativity scene? Is Christmas a Christian festival or can anyone join in? There are four main traditions of the season. Each can be Read more
Twittering Cardinal tells Priests – “liven up your sermons”
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Spice up your sermons, is the message Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi is giving to priests. Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said that priests who used theological language that was formulaic and boring risked making the gospel irrelevant. Grey, dull and flavourless sermons need to be livened up with graphic stories and scandal contained within the Bible, Read more
Bible beats Angry Birds in Internet downloads
Friday, November 4th, 2011A Publishers Weekly report has shown that Bible Apps are more frequently downloaded than the popular game Angry Birds, leading them to conclude that we are in the midst of a “Digital Bible Explosion.”
The New Yorker also reports that, “numerous religious publishing and software companies were developing digital platforms well before the advent of the iPad; some have been at it for more than twenty years. And some of their apps are extremely sophisticated: QR codes embedded throughout the Life Essentials Study Bible link to video and audio sermons.”
Read the article...Many Christians not keen on gender inclusive Bible translations
Friday, October 7th, 2011Christians who make Bible reading a part of their everyday life prefer word-for-word translations of the original Greek and Hebrew over thought-for-thought translations, according to a new study released by LifeWay Research.
Read the article...The status of women in the Bible
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The arguments the status of women in the Bible are curious. Some people say that the Bible was enlightened for its time, a crucial step in an evolution (some would say a revolution) of women’s status. Others say that males composed the Bible, that it was the product of patriarchal society, that it was the Read more
Born again Christians becoming complacent
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Complacency has hit America’s born again Christians; a study by the Barna Group warns about a lack of faith commitment. The study examined faith behaviour of born again Christians over a ten year period and identified a drop in church attendance, decline in reading the Bible, lack of faith priority in things such as volunteering The study also found Read more
ooBible makes Bible-reading social
Friday, July 1st, 2011
The best selling book of all time is about to change with the introduction of the ooBible. ooBible, the new digital Bible website is being designed to transform reading scripture, converting it into a type of social media experience. Former Google engineer Colin Wong came up with the idea last October when reading the Bible. Read more
The Bible’s gone Viral
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Ten member of the Christian Motorcycle Association are helping launch the first set of Viral Bibles in Lincolnshire, England. The Viral Bible Project as an initiative is just one of the many ways in which Biblefresh, a nationwide Christian movement celebrating God’s word, is marking the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Read more