Religious Study
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LDS-specific Programs
Mormon Documentation Project
The goal of the Mormon Documentation Project is to create tools that make studying the scriptures and the Gospel easier. That includes putting a lot of stuff out there in databases so that it can be properly organized, categorized, and accessed.
One project goal is to produce export files of the standard works for the most popular databases in use: mysql, postgresql, firebird, sqlite, oracle and access.
lds-get
lds-get is a simple utility for downloading the scriptures (Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price), church magazines, and other resources from the church's website. This content can then be viewed offline in a web browser or on a Palm Pilot (or any other PalmOS device).
Bible Study Programs
Fortune Bible
Fortune Bible is a project provides the KJV Bible in Unix fortune file format. Each *fortune* is a single verse.
BibleTime
BibleTime is a Bible search/bible study software for KDE Desktop. BibleTime seems to require linux. BibleTime requires Sword API
Everything needed for BibleTime and/or for GnomeSword are often found in Linux distributions and in the repositories that the distros provide. It usually is way more easy to use software that the distros themselves provide.
GnomeSword
Gnomesword is a Bible search/bible study software for Gnome Desktop. Gnomesword works with Linux and Unix. Gnomesword requires Sword API
Everything needed for BibleTime and/or for GnomeSword are often found in Linux distributions and in the repositories that the distros provide. It usually is way more easy to use software that the distros themselves provide.
Sword API
Sword API is the framework for BibleTime, for GnomeSword, for MacSword and for Qtopia Sword Reader.
Everything needed for BibleTime and/or for GnomeSword are often found in Linux distributions and in the repositories that the distros provide. It usually is way more easy to use software that the distros themselves provide.
MacSword
MacSword is a Bible search/bible study software for Mac OSX
Qtopia Sword Reader
Qtopia Sword Reader is a Bible search/bible study software for HandHeld/PDA units
Online Resources
The Scriptures, Internet Edition
The Scriptures, Internet Edition, an official website of the LDS Church includes the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and various study helps. The Church has released a naming standard with examples for third party APIs to directly reference this text.
LDS General Conference Index
This index links from scriptures to the general conference talks that cite those scriptures. A BYU project.
LDS Church Gospel Library
Gospel Library, another LDS Church website, provides "publications currently available include curriculum materials and Church magazines in English from January 1971."
Scripture A Day
Scripture a Day will email you your scriptures daily.
Stay up on your daily scripture study by reading your email. Select which standard work, where you want to start and how many chapters or verses you want each day and Scripture a Day will do the rest.