Why I built this website

I built biblestudy.fyi because I was fed up with traditional media around the Bible. So much of what's out there is locked behind subscriptions, cluttered with adverts, or just stuck in the past — static pages of text with no real way to engage with them. I wanted something free, something fresh, and something properly interactive: a place you could actually do something with, not just read at.

My own spiritual journey has always been a very personal thing to me. It hasn't been a straight line, and it isn't finished. Somewhere along the way, I realised I was actually a little unsure about some of the ins and outs of how to be a good Christian — the practical, everyday parts of it, not just the big beliefs. What does a healthy prayer life actually look like? What do the different denominations really teach, and why? How do you read Scripture in a way that sticks, rather than reading a chapter and forgetting it by lunchtime?

Rather than quietly worry about those gaps, I decided to build the resource I wished already existed — for myself as much as for anyone else. This site is genuinely meant to help me become a better, more grounded Christian, the same as it's meant to help you. I'm not writing any of this from a place of having it all figured out. I'm building it, in large part, to figure it out.

That's why everything here is free, and always will be — funded directly by the Middleton Trust rather than by subscriptions or advertising. It's why there's a quiz you can actually test yourself with, a Bible player that will read to you, worksheets you can print and fill in without needing to dig out a physical Bible, and prayers and hymns you can hear as well as read. I wanted the kind of site I would actually use.

If you're on your own journey — however far along, however uncertain — I hope this is a place you can come back to, a little at a time, and get a little closer to the word of God alongside me.