#BigRead11

Over Lent 2010, the people of the North East got together for “The Big Read“. #BigRead10 was such a success that The BigRead11 went national, in conjunction with CODEC (Centre for Christian Communciation in a Digital Age, University of Durham). Planning commenced in July 2011, and opportunities were created to use new media to create layered online/offline communities.

• Leaflet
• BigBible Advert

The #bigread2011 launched with locally hosted Mardi Gras/Fair Feast events.  All the materials required for the housegroup were available for free from this site, or linked partner sites. A housegroup named ‘Koinonia’ blogged their way through The Big Read 2011.

Housegroup Materials

• Leader’s/Group Materials (full document)
• The Lent ‘Biblical Feast’ Weekly Menu
• Weekly Specials / Housegroup Themes 2011
• Who can participate and what is required for #bigread2011?
• Organising a Mardis-Gras event

• General Homegroup Advice
  • Week 1, God’s People
  • Week 2, God’s Provisions
  • Week 3, God’s Promises
  • Week 4, God’s Parables
  • Week 5, God’s Purpose
  • Week 6, God’s Power
  • Week 7, God’s Perspective

The Big Read 2011 (Reflections) by bigbible

• What now?

Required something more introductory?

For those ‘seeking’ to engage with the Bible for the first time, Russ Gant, an ordinand in training at St John’s College, Durham, prepared a Seeker study.

How did The Big Read 2011 Work?

• See all posts tagged ‘The Big Read 2011‘.
• We have some feedback available on visiting numbers, time spent on site, video downloads, etc.
• We experimented with a forum, but were aware this may be too Web 1.0 (it was).

We used Tom Wright’s Matthew for Lent:

A Lent lectionary resource using Tom Wright’s For Everyone Bible translation, this is the second in a three-volume series to cover the three years of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each day of Lent, there is a reading chosen from the Gospel designated for the year, plus a reflection by Tom Wright.

See purchasing information.

About the Author

Tom Wright recently took up a new appointment as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, having served previously as the Bishop of Durham. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television. Tom Wright is the author of over forty books, including the other For Everyone guides to the New Testament, the best-selling Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, and Virtue Reborn; and the magisterial series entitled Christian Origins and the Question of God.

N.T. Wright (unofficial) page.