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What's New: June 2024

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July 7, 2024 1 min read
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In June, Dwell launched additional content, improved offline listening, and made several updates to create a seamless experience while listening and navigating through the app. Take a look below to learn more!

New Content

Lectio Divina – Delve deeper into Scripture, merging study with meditation to invite an ongoing dialogue with God.
New Sleep Content! – Sleep to The Way of Wisdom with this new sleep experience from the book of Proverbs.
New Version: Reina-Valera – Enjoy this beloved Spanish language translation, in Dwell under the voice of Domingo.
The Apocrypha is here! – The Apocrypha is available in two translations, KJV (Christopher) and NRSV (John & Briony). To learn more about these historic books, make sure to read our article The Family Bible, linked below.

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New Features

📣 Listening Plans are even more useful for you:
  • We’ve added a new ‘congrats’ message upon completion of your plan and given you the much-needed ability to ‘restart’ a plan after you’ve finished it.
  • On your Plans page, we’ve added a toggle that lets you easily switch between Plans that you are in progress and others that are completed. This should help declutter this screen for those of you who have gone through several plans.
  • Our Chime, Reflect and Repeat functions will now work as expected when there are multiple scripture references in a single day of a listening plan.
📣 Version & Voice Preferences Screen

You can now adjust which voices appear in the voice menu on the player, as well as which versions appear in Read mode. Now, when listening on Random, the audio will shuffle between your active voices in the Version & Voice Preferences screen.
📣 Improvements to Offline Listening

You can now download any experience for offline listening, including the Dwell Daily Devotional, Sleep experiences, Breath Prayers, Lectio Divina and more. We also made quite a few under-the-hood improvements that should make downloading and listening offline much easier.
📣 The Dwell Daily Devotional is now available in our CarPlay app.

Now, you can integrate daily scripture plus reflection into your drive, making every journey an opportunity for spiritual growth.
📣 New tappable track indicator for playlists and plan days.

Easily navigate your playlists and plan day tracks in the audio player with our new tappable track indicator. This feature showcases the current track you’re listening to and lets you jump between tracks without leaving the player. It’s a more intuitive way to engage with playlists and plans.

Experience the New Features


New Articles

The Family Bible artwork

Have you ever seen a “family Bible?” You know the one: sitting on a shelf in your grandparent’s home, covered in dust and heavy enough to harm a small child. If you were to crack it open, once you made it past the seemingly endless pages of family records — certificates of birth, baptism, marriage, and death — you’d likely stumble upon a table of contents that would raise an eyebrow or two. Proverbs and the Wisdom of Solomon? Ecclesiastes and Ecclesiasticus? Bel and…the Dragon? For many, this may be the closest you’ve ever come to reading or exploring a collection of books known as the Apoc...

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Lunch Break Monasticism artwork

Abba Moses (“Father” Moses) was a Christian desert monk in the 4th century A.D. Famous for his holiness and wise sayings, many people would come to him for advice. They often got more than they bargained for! A man once came to him, asking for a word of wisdom about how to grow in the spiritual life. Abba Moses responded: “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” Close down your options, Abba Moses was saying. Get alone, away from “everything," and see what God has to say. In the book of Isaiah, God’s people have become preoccupied with the fears and false hopes of th...

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Learning to Pray at Night artwork

“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord, my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, my soul to take.” First printed in The New England Primer,1750. “Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.” From “An Order for Compline,” The Book of Common Prayer, 1979. Many people grow up praying a version of the first prayer above. For some, it’s the first religious thing they ever memorize, maybe only slightly edged out by the “God is great, God is good” dinnertime pray...

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