{"id":143597,"date":"2026-02-27T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143597"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:53:45","slug":"church-times-new-annotated-edition-of-the-bible-connects-scripture-to-daily-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143597","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) New annotated edition of the Bible connects scripture to daily life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new annotated edition of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bible\">Bible<\/a>, published by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bible-society\">Bible Society<\/a>&nbsp;and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), contains more than 1000 notes, prompts, stories, and features to help its readers to address \u201cthe nitty-gritty detail of life\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched last month, the Everyday Faith Bible is designed to help readers to \u201cfollow Jesus every day of the week\u201d through practical prompts, contextual notes, features, quotations, and real-life story examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seeks to help people to connect with ancient texts in the 21st century by addressing \u201chow the Bible speaks to the nitty-gritty detail of life in the UK today \u2014 from work meetings to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/sports\">football<\/a>&nbsp;games to family dinners\u201d, the LICC and Bible Society write in their introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/27-february\/news\/uk\/new-annotated-edition-of-the-bible-connects-scripture-to-daily-life\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new annotated edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bible?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bible<\/a>, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/biblesociety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@biblesociety<\/a> and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, contains more than 1000 notes, prompts, stories, and features to help its readers to address \u201cthe nitty-gritty detail of life\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x94ddfmRkL\">https:\/\/t.co\/x94ddfmRkL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2027462733038231687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new annotated edition of the&nbsp;Bible, published by the&nbsp;Bible Society&nbsp;and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), contains more than 1000 notes, prompts, stories, and features to help its readers to address \u201cthe nitty-gritty detail of life\u201d. Launched last month,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143597\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,199,108,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143600,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143597\/revisions\/143600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}