I’ve been spending the morning getting myself ready for the long marathon run of the coming Church year – and especially spending some time working on my chief task as a preacher, bible research and study.
I came across this site that has a great list of online resources:
There are a number of other sites out there for Lectionary text preparation (like TextWeek), but I’m curious if any of you have come across any other great study sites?
http://www.theophilus-seeker.com/ has study resources – developed for EfM but good for all.
You have hit most of the major ones that I know of. One that seems to be missing, perhaps tangential for sermon prep but great for the History of Early Christianity is http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
In the early days of the internet, the ecole initiative was also important, but it is no longer maintained. Still, there may be some useful materials there: http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/
Check out religion online as well. In addition to lots of other stuff, it provides access to a lot of, if not all, Christian Century: http://www.religion-online.org/
If you can get access through a theological library or a seminary, the ATLA religion database is indispensable. Text this week links to articles in it. My former seminary provided access to alumni at least for a time.
Thanks Ann and Jonathan…
I do have a subscription to ATLA. It’s one of my most used resources – I can’t imagine doing sermon prep without having access to that database. It’s only $100/year for a clergy person – and it carries all the major journals. That’s well within my yearly periodical budget.
I bet you are already aware of Sarah Dylan Breuer’s site at Sarahlaughed.net,
but here is the url in case you are not and also for others:
http://www.sarahlaughed.net/lectionary/