“I (Billy) had the opportunity to worship in the pews with my kids. As a pastor, my preaching schedule rarely affords me the opportunity to spend the entire service with my family. … What grabbed my attention most was this: at some point, each of my four kids (ages 5.5 through 11.5), took out a pew Bible for personal use.” - Mere Orthodoxy
Don’t Give Up on Physical Bibles
“I gave my son this Bible for two reasons. First, I wanted him to take a physical Bible to college. Second, I wanted him to experience, through all the visual clues, a fully used Bible—a sort of generational witness to the importance of keeping the faith.” - TGC
How Digital Apps Are Changing How We Read the Bible
“unlike the move from scrolls to the codex and the codex to the printing press, Bible apps aren’t replacing printed Bibles. Instead, my survey data indicates that most people use a mix of print and digital media” - Text & Canon
Is a Paper Bible Better Than a Bible App?
“Reading my Bible on an iPhone is like kissing my wife through a screen door.” - C.Leaders
Hard-Copy Bibles Aren’t Just Nostalgic
“Handling a physical Bible taught me, at a subconscious level, to read Scripture as a canon, a library of books whose disparate voices could be heard as if they were speaking with and alongside one another about the same subject matter.” - C.Today