Freely-Given.org About Page

Freely-Given.org was started in late 2009 by Robert Hunt, currently based in the small town of Marton, New Zealand. Rob has a vision to help make high-quality Bible and Christian materials more freely available to the world—both to assist Christians in their study and growth, as well as assisting those who’re searching for the truth to find the Living Message for themselves.

The site is growing very slowly, because Rob has only been able to work on it in his spare time, but, since “retirement” at the end of 2021, he’s been able to become more actively focussed on these projects, although still wanting to recruit a team of volunteers to help with reviews and content and software development.

Freely-Given.org begins with links to, and then reviews of, Christian resources on the Internet (especially open-licensed materials) ranging from discipleship resources to free music and songs, photos and clipart, but then to also providing a source of new materials.

In terms of Bibles, a special highlight of Freely-Given.org is that it hosted the early work on the forthcoming Open English Translation of the Bible (OET), which now has its own dedicated site at OpenEnglishTranslation.Bible, although the actual text is displayed on this site under the Open Bible Data banner (best viewed in landscape mode). We’re particularly proud of the parallel verse pages .

In terms of software, Freely-Given hosts the widely-used Bible Drop Box and the Biblelator Bible translation editor (working, but on-hold until mid-2026), both based on our (Python) Bible Organisational System open-licensed software.