The Bible in the Life of the Church

In 2012 and 2014, the Foundation made two grants to the Anglican Communion Office to take forward a project entitled ‘The Bible in the Life of the Church’ and to disseminate resources for the wider Communion.

“The joy and challenge of being Anglican is that we engage with faith and Scripture in different ways. This can be both exciting and enriching but also difficult and confusing.  Bible in the Life of the Church or BILC seeks to offer signposts of understanding as we journey together.” The Archbishop of Canterbury commented that “I see this project as utterly foundational for our life together: I can hardly stress that enough.”

The Bible in the Life of the Church (BILC) is work that has been going on across the Anglican Communion since 2009. Its purpose is to help us engage more deeply with the Bible. To help us to do this BILC has gathered together a tool-box of educational resources. The contents of the tool-box come from all over the Anglican Communion and are designed to help everyone from provinces, dioceses, congregations, small groups and individuals to deepen our understanding of the Bible. The common element that runs through all the resources in the tool-box is that they seek to help those using them to be conscious of the processes they use to understand and apply what they read.

Stephen Lyon