{"id":34148,"date":"2012-08-20T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/detroit_free_press_digital_version_of_the_bible_popping_up_in_more_pews_pul\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:02:00","slug":"detroit_free_press_digital_version_of_the_bible_popping_up_in_more_pews_pul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34148","title":{"rendered":"(Detroit Free Press) Digital version of the Bible popping up in more pews, pulpits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, the sight of someone using an electronic device during a worship service might lead an observer to assume that person was not fully engaged. But not anymore. Reading the Bible used to mean reading a book, but increasingly, people are getting the Word on smartphones, iPads and other electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>So then, what will happen to the printed Bible? The last word has not been written on that, but experts speculate that its unchallenged reign is over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bible is sort of the flagship of the printed book culture,&#8221; said Timothy Beal, author of &#8220;The Rise and Fall of the Bible&#8221; (Mariner, 2011, $15.95). &#8220;The printed word is losing its place as the dominant medium for reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120820\/NEWS01\/308200032\/Digital-version-of-the-Bible-popping-up-in-more-pews-pulpits\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, the sight of someone using an electronic device during a worship service might lead an observer to assume that person was not fully engaged. But not anymore. Reading the Bible used to mean reading a book,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34148\">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":[34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148","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=34148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}