The argument goes something like this: Since Christians cannot escape the liturgical routines of our digital devices, we should design and use digital tools that function in the same space and in similar ways as Facebook, Instagram, and all the rest. Now they seek to do the same with the mobile app genre. The Bible Project co-opted the genre to proselytize online. Explainer videos were conceived in Silicon Valley as quick and easy ways to explain concepts, products, and processes to investors and engineers. The new app is further evidence that The Bible Project (TBP) does all it can to adopt and leverage popular media tech to spread the Gospel. The popular website is run by a nonprofit animation studio that has, since 2014, produced close to 200 short-form videos that have been viewed over 100 million times. Your kid may not be ready for some of the videos quite yet.īut hey, even if that is the case, you can still enjoy them! And I really think you will.The Bible Project recently announced its launch of a new mobile app.¹ The Project is already known for its unique approach to online evangelism: it uses explainer videos - a relatively new genre of digital media - to tell the Biblical story. I haven’t seen anything in them that is inappropriate for adults, or even older children, but the Bible can be gruesome and disturbing at times, and in the interest of staying faithful to the text, the Bible Project doesn’t shy away from that. One note, though: I do encourage you to pre-watch these videos before sharing them with sensitive or young children. I highly recommend the series “ How to Read the Bible.” We started watching it during the last weeks of the school year, and our girls loved it so much they insisted we keep watching through the summer. Or you could browse through their library and see what strikes your fancy. Or you could pick a specific theme, like “ The Covenants” or “ The Holy Spirit,” and dig into that with your kids. So, how could you use these with kids? If your pastor is preaching through a book of the Bible, you could watch the corresponding Bible Project video to give your family a big-picture view of your pastor’s week-by-week preaching. And for those of you wondering how much such a resource costs: they’re all free! (But, of course, you could always donate to the Bible Project.) For all you visual learners (I’m one, too): you’ll love these. And the videos explain so clearly what role each book or idea has within the bigger story of the Bible. I was most familiar with their videos summarizing specific books of the Bible, but they also make short videos about theological terms or concepts, or about the genres of Scripture-so many things. Co-founders Tim Mackie and Jon Collins use their differing gifts to articulate some of the more abstract ideas in Scripture, both explaining the concept through each video’s narration and illustrating it through the video’s art. You’ve probably already watched a video from The Bible Project. Chapel wasn’t what it had been, of course, but it became something else for those last few months-a time to gather around the light of Scripture together and to remember who God is. But during those last months of school, the girls and I gathered around the table each day, watched a video from The Bible Project, and then read a portion of Scripture together. All of us singing together, inhaling and exhaling one another’s saliva droplets, unaware that that was a privilege we could lose.īut just as I’ve loved seeing how God has transformed our losses into unanticipated gifts, I have loved seeing how our school transformed morning chapel into a little “chapel at home.” The at-home version is greatly simplified, yes. Watching the students file into morning chapel and sit down right next to each to other. When our school year (like so many of yours) took a hairpin turn mid-March, I found I missed the little things most-those luxuries we hadn’t realized were luxuries.
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