Tag: BIBLE

While the Pope inches the Catholic Church toward the digital age with the patience of Job, another church to the north continues to spread its technological wings far and wide, touching the blogosphere, the pearly gates of Twitter, and, most recently, the realm of smartphone apps. According to the BBC, the Methodist Church in England has just launched its very own app for the iPhone and iPod ...

As our military and aid organizations scramble to deliver much-needed food and clean water to Haiti, other groups are also sending goods they deem necessary. Like, according to Reuters, 600 solar-powered, talking Bibles to the island nation. The Proclaimer broadcasts a Haitian Creole version of the Holy Word in digital quality audio to 300 people at once. According to the Faith Comes By Hearing ...

Like it or not, the face of the Church is rapidly changing. U2-esque guitars are increasingly taking the place of organs, praise songs the place of hymns and gospel favorites, and the New International Version (NIV) the place of the old King James. Some churches are even tweeting about it all. In keeping with those changes, one transatlantic pair of entrepreneurial believers is carrying the ...

The world's oldest Bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, written on parchment leaves during the fourth century, has been made available for free to the public for the first time. The British Library, one of the many collaborators involved in putting the artifact on the Web, has already posted The Book of Psalms and St. Mark's Gospel online, and now more than 800 pages of the original 1,460 book are ...

If you find that figuring out and visualizing the exact location of an event or place referenced in the Bible has you wishing for a 1000 B.C. version of Google Maps, you're now in luck. The swath of land along the Mediterranean Sea, where many stories in the Bible take place, has changed hands, names, and borderlines enough times to confuse even the most zealous biblical geographer. However, a ...

Since history is fair play to Twitter revisionists, why not take on the Bible, that most sacred of texts? The funny guys over at McSweeney's (the humor site that features clever user-created lists) redid the Ten Commandments in 140 characters or less, making even the most devout LOL. It's pretty accurate, and definitely better than the LOLcat version of the Bible. Or at least more coherent. ...

A trio of German artists are currently showing an installation in which a robotic arm transcribes, on scrolls of paper, the entire Bible in calligraphic text, according to Walyou.com. Entitled 'bios [bible],' the installation aims to "correlate two cultural systems which are fundamental for societies today -- religion and scientific rationalism," according to the artists. This work certainly has ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important finds of the twentieth century. Discovered in the 1940s, the badly deteriorated pieces of parchment that make up this 2,000-year-old edition of the Hebrew Bible have been carefully preserved, but continue to fade and fall apart with each handling. This has led to reluctance in granting scholars access for viewing and studying, but that's changing ...