About The Big Bible Project
From 2010–2015, the BigBible Project sought to host conversations about the Bible through local reading groups & online conversations. Since 2016, the project has taken a slightly different focus, hosting discussion from experts on Biblical Literacy and Biblical Reception in a Digital World.
The 2010–2015 archive can be found here.
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#bigread14 Archive
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Peek at the peak! (@Partakers_Dave)
Posted on June 5, 2014 | No CommentsG’day! My contribution this month was written by a retired man from our church, who regularly contributes to my own website, including a series on Job, from which this is an excerpt. We are going to be like the naughty […] -
#BIGRead14: Amen (Read by @StephenCherry1)
Posted on April 26, 2014 | 2 CommentsAmen: I have never started a prayer with that word before. Yet it is right. Amen: this one-word sentence says enough. Amen: Acceptance. Gratitude. Joy, perhaps. Amen: Pause for breath. Look up. take another step. Amen: Desire expressed. Longing left. […] -
#BIGRead14: Dying (Read by @Loulou_Uberkirk)
Posted on April 25, 2014 | 3 CommentsI am poured out like water, gently flowing over the cusp of something. Sometimes a surge, sometimes a drip, drip, hesitant drip of life force. Not slipping away but flowing inarticulately on. Not rising up, but taking the humble, river-like […] -
#BIGRead14: Breeze (Read by @kalonami)
Posted on April 24, 2014 | 2 CommentsWhen there is no breeze, leaves rest as if they’d never move. Smoke rises thin and vertical, a pencil plume in the sky. When there is no breeze, mist smothers the valley, clouds hang heavy, humidity swells. When there is […] -
#BIGRead14: Joy (Read by @partakers_dave)
Posted on April 23, 2014 | 2 CommentsI have a sinking feeling that when I look back over my life, from the distance of great years, or the moment when I know the crash will be fatal, or the seconds when the heart beats its own destruction, […] -
#BIGRead14: Reconciliation (Read by Bethany Bennett)
Posted on April 22, 2014 | 2 CommentsWe are standing apart. too far apart to touch – thank goodness. We face each other but don’t see the face. We look over. We look through. We look at. We look beyond. We look askance. What! There is a […] -
#BIGRead14: O Thou (Read by Marian Partington)
Posted on April 21, 2014 | 3 CommentsO beginning! O beauty! O brilliance! O wonder! O presence! O silence! O mercy! O wholeness! O healing! O energy! O darkness! O glory! O friend! O end! O thou! Action: Take the opportunity to respond through image, poetry, prayer, a […] -
#BIGRead14 – #EasterMeans Service (Coming up 1pm)
Posted on April 20, 2014 | No CommentsToday, we will run a simple Easter service on the ‘online praise’ blog, including songs, hymns, prayers, images suggested by friends of The BIGBible Project, drawing on material already pre-existing online (with a new sermon from Stephen Cherry). We often do […] -
#BIGRead14: Embracing the Mystery (Read by @UnshaunSheep)
Posted on April 20, 2014 | 1 CommentAlthough I long to understand . . . Although I long to know . . . Although I fancy wisdom . . . Although I crave the light . . . I know how little I know. I know how […] -
#BIGRead14: Contemplation (Read by @ajstarkordish)
Posted on April 19, 2014 | 2 CommentsI have kept myself still before you. the flood of ideas is stemmed. The carnival of images has passed. The fragments of music quietened. Words have come, chosen and repeated; unbidden, uttered and sent on their way. Now the quiet […]