GeekWire reports about an ex-Google engineer’s vision to merge the Bible with social media in his website ooBible.
“We wanted a clean, simple interface, something that people can come in, and really just focus on the words,” Wong tells GeekWire. “We wanted to create an experience that mimics physical books, so you can [...]

An interesting intersection of science and faith. The Associated Press reports on a new Israeli software which is “giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.”
The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different [...]

Plans are in the works to film a major Hollywood epic on the biblical story of Noah. Deadline New York reports Paramount is nearing signing onto the big ticket picture Noah written and to be directed by Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan.
The film will cost well more than the ark cost Noah to build:
Noah [...]

If any of you make it to South Africa this summer (or should I say “winter”), the National Library is hosting an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible - which is this year. Not only is the KJB the most printed book in history, it was also the first book read [...]

On the heels of the San Francisco debate over banning the circumcision of baby boys (a key Jewish ritual), the threat to Jews practicing their faith exists Down Under as well.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports that a combination of “animal welfare groups, Greens, independent lawmakers and some Labor backbenchers” are spearheading a ban [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports what happened when a church rector challenged his congregation to read the Bible cover to cover in one year.
It may be the best-selling book of all time, but its battles, bloodletting, and “begats,” its many laws, rituals, and tribes, and those chewy names like Oholiab and Eliphelehu and “Joshbekashah [...]

An archaeological dig revealing the work of the Bible’s King Solomon has been opened to the public for the first time in Jerusalem, reports WorldNetDaily.
“…visitors will actually be able to walk through First Temple remains, touch the stones, enjoy and study about yet another period of the archeology of the city of [...]

Continuing our debate, Baptist Press reports on a meeting of Southern Baptist leaders last month to discuss the Bible’s response to wealth and poverty. One of the items on the agenda: does the Bible support capitalism?
Jay Richards, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and author of “Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the [...]

Biblical Archaeology Review describes exciting new excavations in Israel and beyond. The July-August issue reports:
It seems like almost everywhere archaeologists dig in the eastern Galilee these days, they are coming up with ancient synagogues.
These include two synagogue outside Tiberias, and amazingly a synagogue from the 1st Century C.E., when the Jerusalem Temple still stood.
Perhaps [...]

In his book, Predictably Irrational, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely describes a study he and colleagues conducted which found that recalling the Ten Commandments right before an exam discouraged students from cheating.
…what a miracle the Ten Commandments had wrought! We didn’t even remind our participants what the Commandments were - [...]