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Announcements, articles, and reflections from the Rhema team.
Meet BibleAI: our first open-source model, free for the Church
We fine-tuned Google's Gemma 4 E4B on Scripture and theology, then gave it away under Apache 2.0. It's a proof of concept — not what powers Rhema today — showing what a purpose-trained Bible model can look like when the weights are free.
Read moreThe art of deep reading
The average Bible-in-a-year plan asks you to read 3-4 chapters a day. That's about 15 minutes of reading with zero time to think. There's a better way.
The 400 years everyone skips (and why they explain half the New Testament)
When Jesus walks into the temple during the Feast of Dedication in John 10:22, he's walking into a holiday that commemorates the Maccabean revolt. Skip the intertestamental period and you miss the point.
Tracing apostolic footsteps
Paul's second missionary journey covered roughly 2,800 miles, most of it on foot. When you understand the physical reality behind Acts, the urgency of the letters changes.
Reading with the ancients
Chrysostom preached on Matthew to a congregation in Antioch around 390 AD. Augustine wrestled with Romans in North Africa. Their interpretations aren't always comfortable, but they'll change how you read.
How the Old Testament hides inside the New (and what you're missing)
When John sets Jesus' resurrection in a garden, that's not a coincidence. The Bible's internal connections go deeper than "as it is written" quotations, and most of us miss the best ones.
Why we built Rhema (and what we mean by "reading the Bible in context")
The idea started with a frustration: fifteen browser tabs open, a Bible app here, a PDF of Chrysostom there, Wikipedia somewhere in between. None of these tools talked to each other.