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An 'app' featuring daily reflections on Bible passages written by leading authors is now available to the millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. Quick and easy to purchase from the iTunes store, the Reflections for Daily Prayer app, produced by Church House Publishing as an alternative to its annual edition in book and Kindle e-book form, includes Bible passages, inspirational prayers and easy-to-understand reflections from leading authors, including Steven Croft, Jane Williams and Angela Tilby.

In a new online video guide introducing the app and how it works, blogging Bishop of Buckingham, the Rt Revd Alan Wilson, says: "I like this new app because it's giving people access to the Bible for themselves anytime they may like it. The content is absolutely first rate and the prayers go beautifully with the rest of the content, and it's easy and intuitive to use."

He also says: "I think that people who use it will find it helps them to grow as disciples in ways that really build them as people and in their faith and in the contribution they can make to their own churches. This is no alternative to going to church or Bible study, it's a way of being much more effective when you do those things."

The video guide is available on the Church of England website at http://www.churchofengland.org and at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwXkDqJwvg.

Taking daily Bible passages from the Church of England Lectionary, the Reflections for Daily Prayer app has the built-in flexibility of allowing users to go straight to today's Bible reflection, go to the contents list for all available reflections from previous days, search for Bible references and contributors, or search for reflections by date.

By using the Reflections for Daily Prayer app, users are able to fit in focussing on the Bible alongside reading emails, updating social media and making phonecalls.

The app is free to download and comes with material for the following week and the previous fortnight. Subscriptions for one week (£1.99), one month (£3.99) or 12 months (£11.99) are available from the iTunes store at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/reflections-for-daily-prayer/id458039066?mt=8.

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Notes to editors

The app was developed by Aimer Media; see http://www.aimermedia.com. 

Screenshots of the new app, on iPhone or iPad, are available on request.

Contributors to the Reflections for Daily Prayer Bible notes over the course of the next 12 months include the Bishop of Sheffield, Steven Croft, author and lecturer, Jane Williams, and priest and regular BBC broadcaster, Angela Tilby.

The Bishop of Buckingham's blog is one of several bishops' blogs recommended at http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/follow-us-online/blogs.aspx

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Howard Dobson, 0207 898 1456
howard.dobson@churchofengland.org