October 1st, 2010 | 
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Lent 2010: Several thousand people in the North-East undertook “The Big Read 2010”, using Tom Wright’s Luke for Lent as a shared text to encourage thoughtful engagement with the Bible individually, in housegroups, and corporately as a region. There was so much positive feedback that for Lent 2011, has gone national, and both Biblefresh and the Methodist Church have adopted #BigRead2011 as their main programme for Lent 2011.
Going National: The Big Read 2011
The #BigRead2011 involves meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible, making use of Tom Wright’s Matthew for Lent (published December 2010) with opportunities to go much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally. From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and Internet chatrooms across the world. We’d love you to persuade your church to get involved!
The Bigger Project
The @BigBible Project promotes Bible reading within a community setting, whether online or offline, encourages people to consider joining a housegroup, and provides online case studies, training and inspirational interviews to allow Christians to gain confidence in engaging with online media. Many searches online for e.g. “Bible” produce negative search terms, so we are looking to encourage more positive online Christian content.
Stories Required
Some organisations already have great stories, but don’t know how to get them online. Find someone within your Church who’s keen, and we’ll help you get that material online, through blogs, videos and podcasts. The new website is looking for stories of how you have used online media, from small to large ways. Have you recently tried emails, blogging, Twitter, etc. for the first time? How did you find it? What do you think that it might allow you to do which it didn’t allow you to do before? What do you think are the big debates around using online media – and what’s your opinion?
The Christian New Media Conference
The #BigBible team is involved in the inaugural Christian New Media Conference on the 16th October, for anybody interested in the way the Church can use social media or in the way social media is affecting the Church, with a wide range of talks and workshops available. If you’re on Twitter, please join the conversation on #cnmac10.
Want more?
Please visit http://bigbible.org.uk or email bex.lewis@durham.ac.uk for more information.
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