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The Lantern
The Lantern Modern Standard is the default reading text — a modernized Authorized Version with Strong’s on most verses. Other editions and the shelves are options beside it.
Start reading
The Library is the great hall. Everything else opens from a verse.
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The Library
The Lantern Modern Standard opens by default; the Lantern Direct — translated fresh from the originals, book by book — grows beside it. The Berean, Coverdale, the Fathers, the Scriptorium, and the Second Temple shelves are options when you want another edition.
LMS · Strong’s
Word study
In the default text, tap any tagged word for Strong’s, Brown-Driver-Briggs, and Abbott-Smith. Tap a verse number for the original-language text behind it. The Aa menu’s Words of Christ toggle sets his voice in crimson across the four Gospels, with contested spans disclosed rather than colored.
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Cross-references & commentary
Every verse carries its strongest cross-references and centuries of public-domain commentary in the verse inspector.
Each day
Two daily doors: the Lectern sets the morning table; the Vigil lays a scroll for the thumb.
set daily
The Lectern
Today’s readings each morning: the saint of the day, the psalm, the Gospel read continuously through the year, and one voice from the shelves.
laid daily
The Vigil
Scripture in the shape your thumb already knows: a scroll, one verse at a time. What links each verse to the one before it is the cross-reference chain rather than a model of you — so the thing choosing what comes next is a document you can read. Laid from the date like the Lectern: the same vigil for everyone, a new one tomorrow, no account and nothing stored.
guided paths
The Reading Table
Seasoned plans through the Gospels, the psalter, the Apostolic Fathers, and more. Progress stays in your browser — the estate never watches anyone read.
The estate
Tradition rooms, the Atlas, languages, circles, and the sister Chapel — walk where the light is.
by tradition
The Narthex
Six doors into the same reader — Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, Lutheran, Messianic, and the Academy — each with that tradition’s lens.
AD 70 → 1925
The Atlas
Historical theology on one timeline: every voice on the shelves, and the seven ecumenical councils with the texts behind them.
Hebrew · Greek · Latin
The Language Shelf
Lessons taught from the words this site already carries — every example opens the verse it was taken from.
private by design
Notes & study circles
Passwordless sign-in (Google or email link), private notes that follow a verse across translations, and invite-only circles. No public feed; nothing tracked or sold.
keeps the lamps lit
The Chandlery
Prints, holy cards, verse tees, and candles. The library is free forever; the Chandlery pays for its oil.
prayer
The Chapel
A companion site for prayer: the candle wall, Adoration, the Rosary, and the Liturgy of the Hours — no accounts, no tracking.
About the project
The Lantern is in alpha. Its own edition, the Lantern Modern Standard, is the default; everything else is optional. The source is on GitHub under Apache 2.0; every text is public domain or openly licensed. Updates on the Olive + Flame Substack.