Archive for November 2006

The Daily Office readings from the Book of Common Prayer are now available online in several formats, just in time for the first Sunday of Advent (the beginning of the liturgical year).

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Anglicans and Episcopalians around the world use the Book of Common Prayer for personal and public worship. The lectionary […]

Ryan Ferguson performs Hebrews 9 and 10 from the ESV:

This presentation comes from the recent WorshipGod06 conference put on by Sovereign Grace Ministries. (Recap here.)
Via Manspeak and WorshipMatters.

Julianne at ½ + ½ = 1 tells of a prize she received in a recent contest:
Each of us received a shiny mini size English Standard Version (ESV) Bible. Actually, we are supposed to give the gifts that we got away - we’re supposed to give them to either people who don’t have Bibles or […]

James sends news of a Greasemonkey add-on he’s developed that automatically links Scripture references in webpages to the ESV. (Greasemonkey is itself an add-on for Firefox.)

Meanwhile, emailer Colin explains how to add ESV search to Camino, a browser for the Mac:

Close Camino.
Find your search engine plist. The search engine plist can be found in your […]

Erin at Works of the Heart, who at thirteen is the youngest blogger we’ve seen talking about the ESV, tells how she uses her family’s computer:
Along with my regular school work, I’m also learning to knit and crochet using an interactive CD-rom and I listen to different sermons and the ESV Bible online.
Neat. The ESV […]

We’ve released six 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.
This month features Steve Mason from Jars of Clay, Shawn Lewis from Hyperstatic Union, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Photography on Tap has a short article that relates Crossway’s use of technology to professional photographers’ sharing photos with others. In short, concerning Crossway:
The stuff they share enhances the experience with the stuff that they sell.
This sentence encapsulates the motivation behind many of our efforts to share the ESV online for free. Thanks to Photography […]

Publishers Weekly recently ran an article summarizing the U.S. Bible market.
Of note:

Annual Bible sales total between $425 million and $609 million.
Zondervan and Thomas Nelson together account for 86% of the market.
Bible readership is on the rise.
Cost is increasing for many of the raw materials that comprise Bibles, especially Bible paper.
“The black leather Bible is a […]

Check out the latest Bible sales chart. It reflects September 2006 sales in many Christian bookstores across the U.S.
We’re not big stats-watchers ourselves, as it’s easy to overanalyze monthly changes. Part of the jump from the previous month (when the ESV wasn’t on the bestseller list) stems from the Spread the Word campaign, which offers […]

Here’s how to add the ESV to your list of search providers in the new Firefox 2.0:

Go to http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/. The search bar in the upper right corner will change color slightly.

Click the button next to the search bar.

Choose “Add ESV Bible” from the dropdown menu.

The ESV now appears in the list of possible search […]