Hi folks.

Just a little cross-pollination between my projects I thought y'all might be interested in.

I've spent the afternoon thinking through the generation of reference indexes for PastoralEpistles.com. Since I started the site, some posts have been associated with particular Bible references. Those references have not been utilized to date; they've just been sitting within post metadata invisible to the user/reader. Additionally, several posts contain clickable Bible references. On top of that, I also cite Apostolic Fathers references (using a groovy tool I wrote last year ... which you're welcome to use too).

So I wrote code today to gather those sorts of things and generate a reference index. That way, when someone arrives at PastoralEpistles.com, they can check out indexes of Bible references or Apostolic Fathers references just by clicking a link on the sidebar. So if someone wants to know if the site has content regarding, say, 1Ti 3.15, by using the Bible Index, you end up at this post (and this post too) which you may not have found otherwise.

At least, that's the hope. Sometimes I think I'm weird and that not too many other folks actually use reference indexes or subject indexes, or that they don't miss them when they're not available. And maybe I am weird. But I like to think of it as a good sort of weird.

Anyway, this will probably be one of the last major features implemented on PastoralEpistles.com, at least for awhile. Hope y'all find it useful!