The media are full of reports of the world-wide launch of the digital Glo bible, which will retail in Britain for £59,99, amidst its developers’ claim that it will bring religion to a whole new generation of Christians.
The Glo bible, which will be launched worldwide on Friday, features more than 7500 encyclopaedia articles, 7, 700 pieces of artwork, 2,400 high-resolution photos, nearly 150 maps and 3.5 hours of video. “Instead of reading the bible, see it, feel it, you get it.”
it’s seriously cool, and I’m glad it’s out. But you also need a staggering 18GB free on your hard drive to install it, and it doesn’t run on Macs, so this is old-style new-style. An internet link is required to keep the product updated: why not have much more of the content on the internet, and copyright free to boot? Including the text of the NIV.
Over the summer I’ve quietly started up another blog, posting the daily New Testament reading from Common Worship Morning Prayer and adding a comment. I’ve chosen a format that makes it fairly easy for you to add comments too, with the hope that a community of readers and commentators might evolve. A lot of clergy and lay people as well, in the diocese of Ely and beyond, are after all reading the same Scripture day by day, and pondering it, but often not in a context where those ponderings can be shared. At the moment we’re working through Mark’s Gospel and are just reaching some really interesting bits in chapters 6-8 (I’ve just written the comments for the coming week!).![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=1a26be1b-a80e-4f07-96f0-5fd7e3988025)
