Reading Scripture like Code
We have a rich set of tools and features to help us navigate, understand, and highlight important parts of code, but, when it comes to scripture, at best, we only get hyperlinks, footnotes, and separate commentary. What if applied some of the tools and techniques we have for making code easier to read and understand to the Bible?
The goal for this weekend is to explore this idea. Break it down, explore possibilities, and create mockups, or possibly prototypes. This idea excites me, but I recognise that while it could be valuable it’s also a potentially very large project to build. While it might be valuable, it may also only be a novelty. Or even nonsense. It’s worth taking a weekend to prototype something to better communicate the vision and gather wider feedback.
What happens after BUILD depends on the feedback from the mockups. Maybe nothing, maybe prototypes, maybe a full on product. Whether the feedback is positive or negative, it will help towards my wider goal of helping people interested in code also be interested in the Bible.
All BUILD 2023 projects…
Speak Life: 321 Course
How can we bring participants of an online evangelistic course into in-person conversations and discipleship relationships?
- user experience
- design
Stewardship: Cause Cross Categorisation
Create an API that automatically categorises charities to support giving.
- development
- api building
- ai
- llm
500k churches: Cross-Tool Data Integration
A start-up ministry has data stored in multiple different silos, how might we support them to have a better understanding of their operations, identify trends, and make better decisions.
- data analysis
- sql
- integrations
Fellow
Help build a community tool for church members to ask questions about their faith.
- typescript
- react native
- firebase
- design
Scripture Union: Online Grow Communities
How might create a hybrid space for young people to grow in their faith?
- design
- ux
- church worker
- copy editor
Safe Families UK: Online Matching Tool
Improve an existing tool to help find local church volunteers build relationship and connections with lonely families.
- php
- mariadb
- javascript
- designer
Church Mission Society: Pioneer Community Platform
Can you help CMS build a skill sharing platform for a network of ministry pioneers?
- web development
- design
Bible Society: Plugging in Bible Passages to Common Software
Copy and pasting the Bible is full of formatting issues; how can we make it a smooth user experience?
- design
- ux
- development
- copy editor
Christians Against Poverty: Poverty Unmasked
Put useful and practical information into the hands of the church so they can understand what poverty looks like in their area.
- open data
- data analysis
- design
Discipleship Tech: PrayerMate ReSync
Support the PrayerMate team rework the internal database and reimplement offline data syncing
- flutter
- dart
Reading Scripture like Code
How might we take some of the tools of an IDE and apply them to scripture?
- design
- develop
- prototype
North Evington Free Church: Real Time Language Translation for Services
What technology could we implement to help non-english speakers understand a Sunday service in real-time?
- development
- tts
- platform integration
Upsio
Help make the back-of-house admin run smoothly in foodbanks
- react
- strapi v4
- heroku
- vercel
GEMeDOT: Visualising Ministry Impact
How can we display and visualise the on the ground impact a ministry is having?
- design
- ionic
- firestore