Scripturally Sound

We increase bible engagement by matching song lyrics to bible verses in one simple search.

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Inspiration

As the world becomes increasingly technical, it is important for Christians to have bible and worship music digital resources to remain relevant. Scripturally Sound is inspired by worship leaders who need to support a pastor's message, reference scriptures when introducing a song, and digging deeper in the songs they sing about. It's also inspired by fulfilling the curiosity of Christians who want to know the story behind the song.

What it does

Scripturally Sound provides scriptural references and topics of the songs used for worship, and the Christian songs that they may listen to on the radio or streaming services. It allows Christians to be more discerning of the music that they listen to.

How we built it

We build an API and admin backend in rails. We built a data import script in Node.js. We build the front end in ES6 Javascript, using the pug templating language.

Challenges we ran into

  • Figuring out how to scrape relevant information from websites
  • Connecting with the Digital Bible Platform API for verse text
  • Representing Bible Verses and range selections in the database
  • Complexity of setting up a front end framework
  • Translating mockup details to prototype

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • clean design

What's next for Scripturally Sound

We plan on building the database to be robust, with thousands of songs, and more scriptures per song. We will create an API that would show the lyric to scripture relationship line by line, and create lyric inspired-bible studies for subscribers. Scripturally Sound could potentially be referenced by Christian music artist after their concerts, providing their fans with a biblical resource that allows them to grow deeper spiritually. It can scale to be a resource for Christian schools K-12, filmmakers who need songs to for movie scores, and for worship schools. Scripturally Sound is a Project Music program headed by the Entrepreneur Center.

Our code

https://github.com/mellowfish/c4tk

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