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

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