Psalms in your pocket

First of all, I would just like to apologise for the lack of posts from me over the last 5 weeks or so. As some of you may know, I started my MA this October and unfortunately my deadlines rather got in the way of me being able to blog! Things settle down now for a couple of weeks, though, so I will do my best to make up for it.

This is just a quick post on an App that I happened to hear about via an academic discussion list that I thought some of you might be interested in / amused to hear about. Now, whilst I know that the idea of carrying a Psalm book around in your pocket is by no means a new idea (given the manner in which the book itself was usually published), someone has brought the Bay Psalm Book kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century by making an App!

The App is free to download, and you can either get to a Psalm by selecting your current mood (yes, really!), or you can just shake your iPhone to be given a random Psalm. There is also a short piece on the history of the Bay Psalm Book. I'm by no means suggesting that this is a new scholarly resource, but it is rather fun!

This is the link to the App, although you can just search 'Bay Psalm Book' in the App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baypsalmbook/id733258140

Photo courtesy of BBC website

© Jenna Townend 2013