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Do You Listen to Podcasts?
Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 at 12:01 AM by Jason Barker
A feature I've considered adding to my Bible study projects each year is a podcast. The basic idea is to give a daily Bible reading from the biblical book being studied, and perhaps a brief commentary.
One reason for doing this is the prevalence of MP3 players among teens (the target demographic for the resources created by the Department of Youth Ministry). For example, a recent study of 1,000 Americans aged 13 to 18 determined that 33 percent own an iPod (and this does not count all the other brands of MP3 players).
On the other hand, however, another recent survey found that only 12 percent of Americans have ever downloaded a podcast, and a mere one percent said that they would download a podcast on a typical day. Granted, this survey was taken from a wide range of ages, and thus the percentage of teens who listen to podcasts may be higher, but it is unlikely to be radically higher.
I download podcasts daily, and listen to them as I walk in the morning. I listen to the Orthodox Word podcast each day, and the weekly MP3 recording of the Come Receive the Light radio program; I download podcasts from other radio programs if I am interested in the topic they are discussing (a frequent weekly MP3 file on my player is this WEEK in TECH - yes, the capitalization is correct - and I download Steven Robinson and Bill Gould's Our Life in Christ program when new episodes are available).
Do you listen to podcasts, and would you be interested in a podcast of Orthodox Christian Bible studies? You can tell me by using the email link on the left sidebar.
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