PDA Bible: Worshiping in the 21st Century

Sometimes a new technology makes it really hard to be religious, whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or of some other denomination. In the area of e-publishing, though, technology has proven to be a boon to religious worship. Today, it's easy to find a PDA Bible for your handheld computer, as well as free meditations, study guides, and search software so you can look up your favorite verses.

Your PocketPC is capable of some great feats, everything from cameras to music to accessing the Internet is possible with this little device. But one feature of the Pocket PC is more important than all the rest, it's about the same size as a paperback book, and is just as portable and easy to hold. This means that it's an ideal platform for e-texts. And on a Palm Pilot or other handheld computer, e-texts are easily searchable and manipulated.

So you can get a copy of the Good Book online, at no charge or commercially, and along with it you might download copies of books like the Gospel Parallels, the Apocrypha, the Book of Mormon, the Talmud, or the Quran. You can download daily devotional material, reading plans, and music. You can also get NIV texts. And, you can search all the texts for just the right phrase or remembered verse, then highlight verses you find particularly interesting. Once you are done, you can share your marked texts with other people who also own handheld computers.

Though technology has not been kind to religion in many ways, it has made it very easy for worshipers to share information and their beliefs with one another. And a great first step to using technology toward the ends of God is choosing the right PDA software so that you can download copies of your religious texts to your handheld computer.