Archive for October 2005

We linked on Wednesday to the Logos Bible Software Blog as an example of a group that’s doing cutting-edge technological work to help you study your Bible better.
Yesterday they talked about a feature in an upcoming version of their software that’s near to our hearts: a tool that maps relationships between people in the Bible. […]

Cameron Moore explores two free Bible software applications:
I started playing around with E-sword this week and have used the Sword Project in the past on a Linux platform. Both projects are free Bible applications that allow you to compare different translations and lookup Strong’s numbers and so on.
He then notes that the ESV is available […]

Matt Gumm uses the recent publication of the (non-ESV) 100-Minute Bible, an overview of the Bible that you can read in 100 minutes, to talk about ways you can breathe more life into your devotions–and increase your knowledge of the Bible–without abstracting away the biblical text.
One of the more intriguing methods he talks about involves […]

Maybe you’ve considered using the ESV web service (which lets you show the text of the ESV on your site) but don’t want to go through the hassle of applying for a key. You no longer have to.
You can now use the key “IP” (without the quotes) for your web service queries. This key limits […]

The plugins keep coming. Glenn Slaven has released a new version of his Verse of the Day WordPress plugin. It lets you show a daily verse from the ESV (or any Bible version that has a VOTD RSS feed) on your blog and takes care of all the updating automatically.
The new version does away with […]

DJ Chuang took notes from our presentation about blogging in business at GodBlogCon. He mentions a few of the new features and services we plan to release soon.
One of our themes was how we’re trying to provide the ESV (and from Crossway’s perspective, books) in the media that people want—and how the Internet lets us […]

Laurence O. has released a WordPress plugin that automatically links to and displays passages from the ESV when you mention a Bible reference on your blog.
In some ways it’s similar to Chris Roberts’s plugin that we talked about a couple of weeks ago. The new plugin doesn’t require you to use markup to indicate Bible […]

We’ve released eleven new spots in the “Bible for Life” radio campaign. Each one-minute spot has someone reading a passage from the ESV and meditating on it. Over 700 radio stations now carry “Bible for Life.”
This month’s spots feature Christin Ditchfield, Nancy Rue, Plumb, Tammy Trent, and others. For example, here’s Christin Ditchfield talking about […]

Crossway has just published the ESV Children’s Bible. This edition contains the complete ESV text plus 214 illustrations and material geared toward kids at the beginning and end of the volume. Crossway designed the Bible to emphasize the Word of God.
The material at the beginning helps children learn how to read, meditate on, and apply […]

There’s still time to register for next week’s (October 13-15, 2005) Christian blogging convention in Southern California, GodBlogCon. We’d love to see you there.
Every attendee will get a free ESV Bible (Compact Thinline TruTone edition, Charcoal Crown design).
We’re also presenting a session. Here’s the synopsis:
Blogging in Business
In this session we’ll discuss how you can use […]