No, I’ve not abandoned you!

A belated Nativity post will appear soon; a timely Theophany post is also coming. Also my community is participating in this year’s Clergy Letter Project by producing a video exploring issues of science and religion (that won’t appear until the second week of February).

So, “What did baby Jesus bring you?”

One of my presents is a new computer bible program – it’s FAB! We got it from Die Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft – the publishers of such useful tools as the Nestle-Aland Greek NT and Rahlfs Septuagint (by the way if you are wanting to purchase these don’t buy them in a bookshop either in the US or here in the UK – save money, buy it directly from Die Biblegesellshcaft, American customers will save close to 2/3 and UK buyers will save up to half).

You can also order it directly from Accordance – but the combination of modules is very different, so you might save money by looking at both sites. The Accordance site includes a module for the NAB (catholic Bible) whereas the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft no longer offers it.

It’s one of the more flexible and sensibly designed bible programs I’ve encountered. Mind you, I am using a Mac so I think that also helps. You can have multiple and parallel windows open at the same time, you can save your searches, and export your results to Word. It has all of the notes, and apparatus of the printed versions, as well as dictionaries and grammatical break-downs. I love it!

An overhaul of the Indie Voices Archive site is in production and ought to be available sometime next week. I had hoped to have edited all of the back-log of interviews (now 5) but that may not happen. There are also four interviews scheduled for the rest of January and at least one in negotiation.

I hope your festal celebrations were enjoyable, and look forward to the many conversations we’ll enjoy together this coming year.