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Description: The Nebraska Corona Bible seeks to create beauty amidst chaos. Individuals and groups across the Cornhusker State are each copying Scripture in their handwriting.
Menu Participate Instructions Scriptorium Examples Contact Close Menu Participate Instructions Scriptorium Examples Contact Nebraska Corona Bible Scroll Down Creativity Amid Chaos. As a means to stay connected during physical distancing, people across Nebraska are each copying a chapter from the Bible in their own handwriting. The final result will be a “Nebraska Corona Bible,” a powerful testimony to hope and connection in this time of crisis.
People have copied holy texts for centuries as a spiritual discipline. In monasteries, monks spent large parts of their days copying sacred scripture, lettering the text, illuminating it with illustrations, and commenting on its meaning. Writers share that writing has had a healing, liberating, centering effect. It connects us across time, and allows us to become part of a community.
In this COVID crisis, new technologies have been extraordinary tools to stay connected. At the same time, they have also heightened a very real “digital divide,” as people in some demographics felt excluded from community which suddenly almost exclusively takes place in an online world.
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