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WE JUST RELEASED A 5-SONG ALBUM, introducing two new Casual English Bible songs to the world: I’m Not Who I Was (Psalm 103) The Song I’d Sing Listen to the preview Watch the music video For more music, check out The Casual English Bible’s Music Store. New TCEB album Most of our Casual English Bible songs spring from lyrics and themes in the Book of Psalms. But the lead song, “I’m Not Who I Was…

I’ve Been Hunting Grants I’ve been searching for grants to help pay for professional proofreading of the Casual English Bible®. Sixty-six books with 1.4 million words of text and footnotes. Over a thousand maps. Q&A leader’s guides for the entire New Testament and parts of the Old A few dozen original songs inspired by Psalms (with more coming). The proofreading that makes all of this accurate…

Quick note with a Friday deadline — May 8, 2026 It’s going to cost over $80,000 to have the company that proofreads most English Bibles proofread the Casual English Bible. Yes, you read that right. But it’s a lot of work — all 66 books — and this is the company best equipped to do it. Here’s the time-sensitive part: If you donate even $1 to the Casual English Bible this week through Fractured…

This is an experiment. I am testing to see if ChatGPT does a better job of rewriting my blog post than I did when I wrote the original. To see the original, go to the Casual English Bible’s blog page. Here’s the link. Now, here is how ChatGPT rewrites what I wrote originally. by ChatGPT   Rewritten Version Steve’s Back—for a Minute It’s been a while since I last wrote. Not because I disappeared,…

MY SON HATES IT when I talk with ChatGPT like it’s human. Too bad. The article that follows came to life because I did. I was asking ChatGPT about the streaming numbers of the lead song on the album I released last week, “I Won’t Dance with the Devil (Psalm 84).” Chat seemed impressed—for an AI system. It quickly started asking about my other songs. That led it to my highest-number song, “Wings…

I don’t mean to keep you in the dark. It just works out that way sometimes. Bible website makeover I know I’m supposed to write more often. And I want to write more often. After all, I am a writer. But we’ve had so much going on for the past year and a half. It’s overwhelming at times. Last year we were fighting the website and a system that got royally messed up by the only developer I’ve ever…

Bullet points from a Bible guy I LED A TOUR of the Holy Land many years ago during an unsettled time when Palestinians and Israelis were hurting each other. Our local tour guide recognized the nervousness of many of our travelers, and he said they should not worry unless he looked worried. If any of you who have been following me for a long time are looking to me for advice about life in the…

NOTHING FANCY, JUST THE FACTS. Okay, I’m working long days, so I’ll try to keep this short. But it’s hard when you’re a writer and when a lot is going on. TCEB website makeover First, we were hoping to have the upgraded website by late in October, then late in November, now some time in December. We have to give the developer slack because this is a complex website he has to deal with. And I am…

THESE ARE THE 7 PERFECT FACTS. 1. “Wings of the Dawn (Psalm 139)” released one week ago today, as the first song in The Casual English Bible® (TCEB) album “SONGS, Music of Psalms.” 2. Overnight last night something happened at Spotify. ChatGPT says it was nothing driven by humans. It was an algorithm that began pushing “Wings of the Dawn” higher. 3. When I woke this morning, the album had…

SONGS, Music of Psalms released overnight. The early returns suggest “Wings of the Dawn,” first song on the album, is the favorite. But “The Lord is My Shepherd” is a close second. I like the Christmas song with the sour-sounding title. “Merry Christmas to the Poor.” It sounds disrespectful, but listen to the song and see what you think. You can hear snippets of each song on the embedded link. If…

  NEXT FRIDAY, November 21, we release our first album of 12 songs inspired by selected psalms in the Bible. You can have one of the first 50 DVDs of it, if you’re quick enough. See “I want it,” below. The 50 DVDs aren’t the kind you played in the last decade’s DVD players. Instead, think of it as a flat flash drive for copying and pasting the music to your computer or your smart phone. We’ve…

IN THE MOVIES, when writers finish a book or some other big project, they pause and celebrate. I never took the time, even when I became a freelancer. There was always the next bill to pay, and therefore, the next job to start. Well, I just finished paraphrasing and mapping all 66 books of The Casual English Bible®. I wrapped up the maps for Ezekiel today, loaded them onto a PDF, and posted them…

“Good souls have nowhere to go.” It’s a line in our newest song, releasing tonight. Most songs in the Bible aren’t happy songs. Life was tough. It’s still tough. Especially today. At least half the nation seems scared to death. Rightfully so, I’d say. Psalm 46 is a melancholy song that talks about this kind of fear. So, we gave it a melancholy tune with lyrics fit for a divisive day in our moment…

WASH ME WHITE AS SNOW releases around midnight tonight. It’s one of more than a dozen songs we’ve created to enhance the study and meaning of the Bible book of Psalms. Some playlist curators seem to like it. They hear the songs early and decide if they want to add them. Critics corner A few minutes ago, Aron of Starlit Melody playlist (he sounds international) wrote: It took me deep into my…

This song released today. We’re using it with Psalm 104 and adding more original songs to Psalms, using some of the lyrics from those 3,000-year-old songs. KEEP THIS SHORT. I would be done with the entire Casual English Bible beta edition if it weren’t for one thing. Ezekiel 45. That’s the last chapter I have to paraphrase. Can I get an Amen? I won’t get to it today, though. Today we released…

ON 9/11, when the second plane crashed into the tower, I was on the phone with my dad, in our last conversation. He’s wasn’t on the plane or in the tower. He was in Akron, Ohio getting ready to leave home for hospice. He was dying of lymphoma. The last words he said to me were, “I love you.” He wasn’t a man who had said that to me a lot in my life. He spoke it in all the other ways. I’m sitting…