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Dancers celebrating their culture in the Papua New Guinea Highlands on PNG Independence Day, the 16th of September. We serve Papua New Guinea with Bibles on PNG.Bible. I am happy to announce that a new free and open source Bible study app is available for iOS and iPadOS: AndBible. This Bible study app has long …
Read More AndBible for iPhone; Hurricane ResistanceLori and Michael in front of Hubbard Glacier, Alaska Lori and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary with a trip to Alaska, followed by a reunion with Lori’s siblings and cousins in Oregon. It was a fitting way to celebrate over 4 decades of sticking with each other through better and worse conditions, through sickness …
Read More Patient Persistence PrevailsI have totally lost count of the many thanks we get for the World English Bible and for the many other Bible translations that we distribute. I usually don’t pass those on, because (1) I’m hesitant to ask permission to do so from everyone who sends them, (2) they would dominate the prayer letters, and …
Read More Thanking God for you!A friend is working on a new freely-copyable, Modern Bible translation for Japan. Only about 2% of people in Japan identify themselves as Christian. There are other Bible translations in Japanese, but the Japanese Freedom Bible will be the only complete Japanese Bible that is both in clear modern Japanese and free from all copyright …
Read More New Bible Translation for JapanMap showing East Timor (Timor-Leste) Rejoice! We have a new Bible web site for East Timor! East Timor (which they call Timor-Leste in their local languages) is the first new soverign state of the 21st century. Getting this web site up and running has been on my to-do list for a long time, now. I …
Read More New Bible Site for East TimorI have recently had a couple of people ask me about if/how I use artificial intelligence (AI) in my ministry, and what precautions I take. The short answer is that I use AI in several different areas, but with caution and checking. AI can provide a significant boost to productivity. It can also give wrong …
Read More Ways I Use Artificial IntelligenceOne great thing about releasing the World English Bible in such a way that it can be copied, shared, and distributed freely is that some people do some truly awesome things with it. God led Rob to do one of these awesome things. Rob is a talented musician who has created “The Sing Bible” by …
Read More The Sing BibleI regularly get expressions of thanks for the many freely shareable Bible translations that we post online. These thanks really belong to all who support and pray for us and to God who enables all of us to do what we do. Here is an email that we received last week: Dear Michael, Thank you …
Read More Gratitude from GhanaBut someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies. That which you sow, you don’t sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some …
Read More Resurrection Power!Lori kayaking with her friend, Michelle, in Vietnam Lori went on a vacation in Vietnam with her teacher friend, Michelle, just for fun. Don’t worry. The trip was funded by Lori’s public school retirement pay, not our mission donations. While there, she suddenly lost vision in her left eye. She can still see with her …
Read More Please Pray for LoriScribe copying Scripture in Greek The Septuagint is the oldest existing translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. We were blessed with a gift of not just the text of the Greek Septuagint, but an audio recording of it as well, complete with permission to share it. It was translated starting in the 3rd century …
Read More What is the Septuagint?Does spiritual warfare affect tech? I’m pretty sure it does. Last Friday night (the 13th of February 2026), Lori and I just got home from church, and I was getting ready to relax. Then I discovered that our main web server was offline. This single computer hosts all of our Bible distribution web sites, our …
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