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+[[!meta title="bible-gateway: A Two-Edged Sword in Emacs"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Kristjon Ciko"]]
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+# bible-gateway: A Two-Edged Sword in Emacs
+Kristjon Ciko (he/him) - <mailto:kristjoc@uio.no>
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+`bible-gateway` is a simple Emacs package that fetches content from
+<https://BibleGateway.com> — verses, passages, search results — directly
+into Emacs.
+
+Unlike other approaches to reading Bible text in Emacs, it doesn't
+require installing extra modules, downloading zip files of Bible text,
+maintaining a local database, or signing up for an API key or
+subscription. Everything happens over plain HTTP/HTML scraping. It
+stores nothing on disk except a small cache for the verse of the day, so
+Emacs doesn't refetch it on every startup. It supports 14 Bible versions
+in different languages that are in the public domain, all fetched live,
+with no per-language downloads.
+
+In this short talk, I'll go through the main features with quick demos:
+
+-   Verse of the day, usable as an emacs-dashboard footer or a `*scratch*` buffer message
+
+-   Insert a Bible passage at point
+
+-   Read a passage in a dedicated buffer, with n/p verse-by-verse navigation
+
+-   Listen to a Bible chapter as audio, opened in the browser
+
+-   Search the Bible by keyword, with clickable, paginated results
+
+-   Follow a daily reading plan from a CSV file, with automatic progress tracking
+
+-   Compare two Bible translations side by side in one window
+
+-   Memorise verses using a touch-typing practice mode with live feedback
+
+-   Switch between the 14 supported Bible versions/languages
+
+About the speaker:
+
+I am a postdoc at the University of Oslo, working on networking,
+transport protocols, and Wi-Fi. I have been using Emacs since 2020, and
+I now use it for nearly everything — email, Zulip, org-mode, LaTeX, and
+coding in C/C++, Python, and various scripting languages. I initially
+built the bible-gateway package to show the verse of the day in the
+emacs-dashboard footer. Over time it grew into a fuller toolkit for
+daily Bible reading, preparing devotions, and memorising Scripture — all
+without leaving Emacs.
+
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