Another item from the “I’m not sure how useful this is, but it sure is cool” file: some intrepid soul has run many books of the Bible through Wordle, which generates a “word cloud” (like the tag clouds you see on blogs) based on the text. The results give you a visual sense of which words are used most frequently in the work. Here are word clouds for a bunch of New Testament books. It’s really interesting, although not surprising, to see how often the names of Jesus and God crop up.

Others have seized on the idea and generated word clouds for a few Christian classics, as well. Here’s Martin Luther’s 95 Theses:

See also the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Fun! Via Between Two Worlds.