The Quiet Reading
The New Testament read aloud, whole, in order, over landscape — no commentary, no argument.
Acts 16-19 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
Midnight in a Philippian prison, and Paul and Silas are "praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them." The Bereans, "examining the Scriptures daily."...
Acts 8-11 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
An Ethiopian official reading Isaiah in a chariot: "Do you understand what you are reading?" A light from the sky on the road to Damascus. A voice on a rooftop: "Rise, Peter, kill ...
Acts 4-7 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
Peter and John, called "unlearned and ignorant men." A shadow falling across the sick in the street. A face "like it was the face of an angel." And, at the very end, "a young man n...
Acts 12-15 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
Peter knocks at the gate, and the servant girl is so glad she leaves him standing outside. "It is his angel," they tell her. A crowd in Lystra: "The gods have come down to us." And...
John 20-21, Acts 1-3 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A stone found rolled away "while it was still dark." One word in a garden — "Rabboni!" — and Thomas saying "My Lord and my God!" Then John closes, Acts begins, and a sound comes "l...
John 15-19 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
"I am the true vine." The last long teaching before the arrest, and a prayer for everyone who would ever believe. Then a garden at night, a trial before Pilate — "What is truth?" —...
John 11-14 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A friend four days in the tomb, and the shortest verse in the book: "Jesus wept." A pound of perfume worth three hundred denarii poured out on his feet. A teacher who gets up from ...
John 7-10 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A feast where his own brothers tell him to go public, and don't believe him. A woman brought to be stoned, and a man writing in the dust. A beggar born blind who gets his sight and...
John 3-6 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A teacher who comes by night. A woman at a well at the sixth hour, who leaves her water pot behind. A pool with five porches, and a man who has waited there thirty-eight years. The...
Luke 23-24, John 1-2 — Bible Read Aloud Over Landscapes
Luke ends at a road out of the city, with two people who work out who they have been walking with only after he is gone. Then John begins — no genealogy, no manger, no shepherds, j...
Luke 19-22 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A tax collector who climbs a tree because he is too short to see over the crowd, coins handed out in equal amounts and returned in unequal ones, a colt no one had ever ridden, and ...
Luke 14-18 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A banquet where every invited guest sends an excuse, a father who runs while his son is still far off, a beggar named in a parable where no one else in the story gets a name, and t...
Luke 11-13 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The Lord's Prayer as Luke has it, a friend who caves in at midnight only because he won't stop knocking, woes on Pharisees who love the best seat, and eighteen killed when a tower ...
Luke 8-10 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A sower whose seed lands in four kinds of ground, a storm gone quiet with one sentence, a man living among tombs given his name back, and seventy sent out two by two. Read aloud, u...
Luke 4-7 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The wilderness, a hometown reading that ends with a crowd at a cliff edge, the sermon on a level place, and a widow's son at the gate of Nain. Read aloud, unhurried.
Luke 1-3 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
A written account addressed to one named reader, two annunciations, the songs that came out of them, and a genealogy that runs back to Adam. Read aloud, unhurried.
Mark 13-16 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The Mount of Olives, the supper, the fire in the courtyard, and a morning at the tomb that ends in silence. Read aloud, unhurried.
Mark 9-12 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The mountain, the road to Jerusalem, and a man who asks for help with his own unbelief. Read aloud, unhurried.
Mark 5-8 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The man among the tombs, two meals in the wilderness, and a healing that takes two tries. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 28, Mark 1-4 — Bible Read Aloud Over Landscapes
The empty tomb closes Matthew. Then the shortest gospel starts, already running. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 25-27 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The last parables, the supper, the garden, and the trial. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 21-24 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The entry into Jerusalem, the temple, and the last long discourse. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 16-20 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
Peter's confession, the transfiguration, and the long walk toward Jerusalem. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 12-15 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The parables, the crowd that turns, and the two meals in the wilderness. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 7-11 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The end of the Sermon on the Mount, and everything that happens the moment Jesus comes down from the mountain. Read aloud, unhurried.
Matthew 1-6 — Bible Read Aloud Over Quiet Landscapes
The Gospel of Matthew, from the genealogy to the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. Read aloud, unhurried, with nothing on the screen but the land.