At Origins, along with all of the other activities we have to get ready for, we should start thinking about the Bible Project.

The Bible Project answers that nagging question you probably don't think about when you check into your room: "What am I going to do with this Bible?" The answer is, of course, anything you want, but why not get rid of it in a fun way?

After all, technically, it's your Bible. It doesn't belong to the hotel. Gideon checked out, and and he left it no doubt to help with good Rocky's revival. But that's another story.

So here's an idea for a little culture-jamming project: We get a bunch of people to bring their bibles to some convenient public spot in the convention area, pile them up, put a sign over them that says something like "put your bibles here," and then wait to see if the pile grows.

That's the general idea. Now we have to work out the details.

We should decide what the Sign should say. I'm partial to simply "PLACE BIBLES HERE" or "PLEASE PLACE USED BIBLES HERE".  Any other suggestions? I don't know whether to add "used" to the phrase or not. Perhaps a sub-heading is needed - "brought to you by the Bible Recycling Project" or "Bible Collection Agency" might give it that charitable feel. Something like "Brought to you by Gideon's Recycled References for Rocky Raccoon's Revival (GRRRRR)" would be cute.

Also, we'll need to start getting the word out to as many possible conspirators as we can (so we can have a nice starter pile of bibles ahead of time). Is there some way we could get the word out to even more people before we put the sign up, so that maybe there would be a really big pile (I'm thinking 10-20 books)? Maybe we could write up flyers and post them ahead of time. Maybe word-of-mouth is enough. The more books we start this thing with, the more likely it will grow out of control. Origins is undoubtedly full of people who want to contribute. 

Once we get to the convention center we need to coordinate a time and place for the initial post and drop off. My suggestion is that on Thursday we select a spot and drop off time. We'll spread the word (perhaps one of the rooms could be BRP central, where people could call to confirm the drop off time, or drop books off early), then on Friday converge on the area with the sign and starter books. From there we just will cross our fingers and pray that the display stays up long enough to attract more bibles.

I don't know what to do with the pile of bibles once we've collected them, but here are a few ideas: 

• The easiest (and possibly best) thing is just to leave them there. 
• We could mail them to the Gideons, with a note from the Bible Recycling Project. 
• We could save them as seeds for the next convention. 
• We could stockpile one hotel room with 10+ bibles for the next tenant.

Of course, something as big as Bible Town can't become a reality until there're a lot of Bibles, upwards of 50 to a hundred. So maybe the initial sign should say "PLEASE DONATE YOUR BIBLES TO BIBLE TOWN" or "BIBLE TOWN NEEDS YOUR BIBLES." That sounds innocent enough.

Incidentally, I am already thinking of some nice ways to build houses. Bibles can be opened up to make cottage-style roofs.