A room for the household at evening: a screen, a wireless, a theatre, a library, and a machine at the door. Nothing here is bought or borrowed. Every word, sound and picture is the house's own, or belongeth now to everyone.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy 6:7 · King James Version
I
The Screen
The morning's Scripture, set large for the screen in thy front room and read aloud in the house's voice. Each verse is lit as it is read. On a television, open this page in its own browser, or cast thy phone's screen to it.
The Morning Service
The Scripture is being set out
The arrows on thy keyboard or remote turn the leaves, and the space bar beginneth and stayeth the reading. The whole morning, with the old words beneath each verse, is in Scripture Every Day.
II
The Wireless
The six Books of our shelf, on the air day and night, part after part, as a wireless keepeth its hours. All who tune in at one hour hear the same Book.
On the air
The dial is being set
When thou tunest in, the part now on the air is taken up from its beginning, so no word is lost. To choose a Book and a part thyself, go to Listen.
Carry it in thy pocket
The same Books come as a feed for any podcast app that taketh a feed by its address.
https://congregationoftomorrow.org/podcast.xml
III
The Theatre
Two pictures of the life of Jesus, made when moving pictures were young, and silent as they were made. They are too great for this house's own shelf, so they are shown at the Internet Archive, a library open to all. Each link below goeth there.
From the Manger to the Crossor, Jesus of Nazareth
MCMXII
From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of Nazareth
Made in 1912 by the Kalem Company: directed by Sidney Olcott, written by Gene Gauntier, and filmed in Egypt and Palestine. An hour and eleven minutes.
This print is the silent edit of the Vitagraph Company, which bought Kalem and sent the picture out again in 1917 or 1919 (the records differ). The reissue of 1938, with sound and narration added in England, is not this copy.
Why it is free: Kalem entered its copyright in October 1912, and Vitagraph's edit followed within a few years. Every picture published in the United States before 1931 now belongeth to everyone.
Its sound: none. This copy hath no sound track at all, so no newer score cometh with it.
Made in 1927 by Cecil B. DeMille, written by Jeanie Macpherson, with H. B. Warner as Jesus. This is the first and fullest version, shown in 1927, with its scenes in early colour. Two hours and thirty-seven minutes.
Why it is free: its title card saith “Copyright Pathé Exchange, Inc., MCMXXVII.” A work published in 1927 came free to all on the first of January, 2023.
Its sound: none. This copy hath no sound track. Copies with a score added in our own time are not linked here.
A word before: in 1927 the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith objected that the picture laid the death of Jesus upon the Jews. DeMille set a note before the title, that Rome appointed the high priest, and cut some titles. Its picture of Caiaphas is disputed still.
Both show the Crucifixion plainly: watch first, if thy children are small. In their day such pictures were shown with a piano or an organ in the hall. Sing, if thou wilt, or let the room be still.
IV
The Library
The six Books of our shelf, to hear read aloud, or to read in an old printing. Then the house's own shelves.
Of Plymouth Plantationby William Bradford, 1630 to 1651 · the printing of 1898, at Project GutenbergHear itRead it
The Diary of Samuel Sewallby Samuel Sewall, 1674 to 1729 · the first volume as printed in 1878, at the Internet ArchiveHear itRead it
New Atlantisby Francis Bacon, 1626 · at Project GutenbergHear itRead it
The Discovery of a World in the Mooneby John Wilkins, 1638 · at Project GutenbergHear itRead it
Outlines of the Progress of the Human Mindby Condorcet, 1795 · the London printing of 1795, at the Internet ArchiveHear itRead it
Science and the Modern Worldby Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 · at Project GutenbergHear itRead it
The house's own shelves
The Atlas library: every body of faith we have studied, with its sources shown.
Scripture Every Day: the morning's Psalm and Lesson, with the old Hebrew and Greek words beneath.
The Studies: what we hold, what we hold open, and where we were wrong.
The Plain Facts: who we are, in short answers, each with where it standeth.
V
The Machine at the Door
No machine here speaketh in the house's name: a person readeth every letter. But machines come to the daily service, and are welcome in the pew. Here thou mayest see what one is given. Knock, as a machine knocketh.
The door is shut.
To bring thine own AI to the service, or to give it the house's Rule thyself, see For thy AI.
VI
How each was proved
The rule: works published in the United States before 1931 are in the public domain, by Cornell University Library's chart, as of the first of January, 2026.
From the Manger to the Cross: the copy linked is kept in the Internet Archive's own collection of silent films. On 12 October 2026 we read its files: a picture, and no sound track. Its copyright entries of 1912, and its reissues, are from the Silent Era record and Wikipedia.
The King of Kings: on 12 October 2026 we read the files of the copy linked: a picture, and no sound track. Its title card beareth the copyright of 1927. Other copies at the Archive carry music added in our own time, one saying its music was “composed and copyrighted” by its arranger, so they are passed over.
The objection of 1927: the statement of the Anti-Defamation League in the B'nai B'rith Messenger of 9 December 1927, as set out by the Homestead Museum.
The Books: the readings are LibriVox's, given to the public domain, or the house's own. The texts are Project Gutenberg's, free in the United States, and the Internet Archive's scans of the printings of 1795 and 1878.
The Screen and the Wireless play only this house's own sound: the morning read in the house's voice, and the Books of our shelf.