The Church Times reported that the Bible Society, working with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, has produced a new annotated version of the Bible, called the Everyday Faith Bible, pictured above.
With over 450 major English versions of the Bible published since Tyndale in 1526, you may feel there is little room in the market for another one. But this version is annotated, in the sense that it contains little notes in the margin, which fall into three categories – those marked with a Head, which concern the scriptures’ real-world context; those marked with a Heart, that seek to help readers relate to the experiences and emotions in the passage, and those marked with Hands, which encourage readers to respond in practical ways.
Launched in January this year, the idea is to help people in the 21st century to connect with ancient texts by addressing, as LICC and the Bible Society write in the introduction, “how the Bible speaks to the nitty-gritty detail of life … today — from work meetings to football games to family dinners”.
At €38.83 each, the Everyday Faith Bible may not work for people with every day wages. But it maybe works as something special and unusual, or as a gift for someone who might be struggling to make sense of it all.
Read the full story in the Church Times here. See extracts of the Everyday Faith Bible here. The Everyday Faith Bible is available on Amazon here.