Monday, October 05, 2009

Now for something else a little different:
A blog toy for texts

Wordle creates word clouds out of any text you insert in it. For this Sunday evening, I thought I'd drop in some religious texts.

Here's the first chapter of Genesis, the ancient Hebrew creation myth:
genesis1-2.jpg

And here's the Nicene Creed. No one will be surprised to see that in the 4th century after Christ this effort to lock the deity down to a formula of words leaned toward the patriarchal.
nicene-creed.jpg

In honor of today's Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, here's the prayer attributed to that 13th century exemplar of Christian simplicity.
st-francis.jpg

Go make your own with your own texts.

1 comment:

bjohanna said...

Thanks. I sent it on to my church where the theme for fall is "Lord, make me an instrument..."