Series: In Defense of...

Welcome to the In Defense of… Series, where I document my journey reading through the chronological Bible in a year during 2025. I’ll keep this page updated with the full list of posts and other resources I’ve found useful.

Cover/title image from the first post of this series. In the background is a blurred flatlay image of two potted plants, and a Bible opened beside a pen and notebook.

Series Posts

About my Bible(s)

  • I use Tyndale’s One-Year Chronological Bible (Expressions) (hardcover edition) as my home base

    • Pros:

      • Wide margins for taking notes from other translations and resources

      • Chronological structure (in order of when books were written and events occurred)

      • 365-day format

      • Pretty

    • Cons:

      • It’s the NLT

      • Does not contain the Apocrypha

      • Every few pages, you’ll find a random verse in the margins decorated with cutesy font. Let’s just say it feels weird to be reading about Job’s children being murdered right next to a frilly calligraphy rendering of “Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

  • I’ll often look up each day’s passage in other translations (esp the Orthodox Study Bible Old Testament and Harper Collins Study Bible/ NRSVUE) and read them all in conversation with each other.

  • When listening to the Bible through audio, right now I’m enjoying the Listener’s Bible.

Other Resources I Like (a growing list)

(I’ve got lots of resources I could include here, but am limiting this list to ones I’m actively reading alongside the Bible this year.)

Resources other Readers of this Blog have Recommended

  • Podcast: Daily Orthodox Scriptures (Ancient Faith Radio) by Fr. Alexis Khouri (children’s version here) —> Note: this doesn’t follow a chronological reading plan but it’s still a good podcast if you are trying to read the Bible in a year but don’t have time to sit down every day to read it.