The guys at @natwivity are gearing up for their Twitter re-enactment of the Christmas story.

They've started - appropriately enough - with a call from "Emperor Augustwus" to respond to the census at www.natwivity.com.

The show starts Dec 1.

We're nearly at the end of Exodus. What an eventful and unexpected journey!

The book starts off as Hollywood blockbuster (with a sizable section on epidemiology), then segues to a fairly in-depth law book, and finishes as a construction manual.

There are plenty of things in Exodus that can seem oddly specific. But the whole story of Scripture is about God dealing with people in specific ways.

Humans are always in a specific place, at a specific time, part of a specific culture, with a specific language. It's hard to imagine what it would mean for God to deal with us any other way.

BIGBible have just published a video interview that I did with with Pete Phillips last week.

It was great to have a bit longer to explain the project and reflect on how it's going.

The BIGBible Project itself is well worth checking out, so do follow the link above and explore!

PS. Many thanks to Pete for sparing my blushes by editing out a mis-attributed reference (I confused my Victorian literary classics).