"Forget about Bible reading and "the quiet time"; Bible reading is the disquiet time. And don't read Scripture text to fuel devotional feelings, but to ignite imaginative faith in the god who dares us to think and act otherwise. Scripture text is not intended to confirm for us our spiritual and theological staus quo, but to call us and our communities of faith into question, to unsettle our settled convictions because God is always urging us beyond what we already know and have learned to live with." -Jim Gordon, Principal of Scottish Baptist College
Versions of the Bible
Bible Gateway, includes The Message, NIV, CEV, and others
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
NRSV, with Apocrypha
J. B. Philips Version of the New Testament
Why, Philips wrote this translation
The Cotton Patch Version of the New Testament
About the Bible
Introductions to the Bible
Frederick Buechner, on the Bible
A Survey of the Bible, using daily Bible readings in two week segments, with three groupings of 2 week segments which build on one another.
History of the non-English, and especially the English translations of the Bible How did the Bible com to be what we have today? Link to PDF
Why the "Lost Gospels" Lost Out, by Ben Witherington III, recent theories about conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad, really bad, history.
Biblical Authority, Modern Day Interpretations of the Bible and its Authority, by Walter Brueggemann