About the Weekly Readings

VolcanoBible.org is proud to continue the legacy started by site founder Friendly Neighborhood Jesus Freak in providing these videos every week since 2020. For the Liturgical Year 2024, the content is no longer a personal dalliance of the founder but an active ministry.

These videos originated during lockdown in 2020, as a way to provide some of the familiarity of a church service within the confines of a self-produced video on YouTube. First consisting of only a short prayer taken from the Collects of the 1979 (US) Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer, and weekly readings adapted from the Revised Common Lectionary with adjustments, since 2022, some worship music (two hymns per week) has been added. The budgetary limits of the program have generally necessitated restricting the content to public domain or freely available resources, hence the exclusive use of the King James Version for the first run of videos.

In order to extend the reach of the Weekly Scripture Readings, for 2024 we decided to expand the project, first to include a respected contemporary English translation, and second, potentially to expand into a Spanish version of the project. To that end, we have contacted The Lockman Foundation and obtained permission to use their two most well-respected translations, one in English and one in Spanish, for future videos.

We are always considering ways we can improve this little project as well as ways to expand it.