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Twittering the Bible

Monday, October 19, 2009 11:04 PM Comments (0)

The inventive continue to come up with new techie ways to spread the Gospel. You can get the Bible on a USB. You can have a verse a day sent to your iPhone or mobile phone. And now, there’s the “Twitter Bible,” which summarizes the over 31,000 verse Bible into nearly 4,000 short-form tweets.

Formally titled “And God Decided to Chill,” the German language book was released at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The project was launched by the Protestant web site www.Evangelisch.de, who wanted to encourage debate about the Bible and demonstrate modern possibilities for making known the word of God.

It’s the compilation of tweets by more than 3,000 German Christians who participated in the project earlier this year. Participants used Twitter to summarize 3,906 Bible sections into 140 character messages.

Don’t expect a faithful translation, though. The tweet describing God’s day of rest after creation: “Thank God! It’s Sunday!”

 

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Tim Drake is an award-winning journalist and author. He serves as senior writer with the National Catholic Register. His articles have appeared in publications such as Faith and Family magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic World Report, Catholic Exchange.com, Columbia Magazine, Gilbert! Magazine, This Rock Magazine, and many others. Tim has been a guest on both television and radio. He has appeared on Vatican Radio, FOX News, and EWTN. He is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's The Catholic Channel. He co-hosts the weekly radio program "Register Radio" on EWTN, airing Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. Eastern. Tim has published six books - his most recent being the coffee-table book, Behind Bella: The Amazing Stories of Bella and the Lives it's Changed, (Ignatius Press, 2008) - and has contributed to several others.