The Long Table: Bible Study
One question. Eight readers.
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Ask the question you weren't allowed to ask. Eight Christian traditions answer side by side — the scholar, the preacher, the mystic — and nobody tells you who's right.
Ask any question of the Bible — the hard ones especially — and eight Christian traditions answer, side by side. No verdict. That part is yours.
Most Bible apps hand you one answer. The church has never worked that way. For two thousand years, historians, mystics, preachers, and scholars have been reading the same book differently — and that disagreement isn't a crisis. It's a library. The Long Table pulls up a chair for each of them:
• THE HISTORIAN — what did these words mean to the people who first heard them?
• THE PREACHER — the church reading most of us grew up in, given a fair hearing
• THE FIRST READER — how Jesus's own Jewish world wrestled with these texts
• THE WITNESS — the Black church's reading: what kept people alive, and what was used against them
• THE MYSTIC, THE OLD SOUL, THE ADVOCATE, THE TWIN — contemplative, Eastern Orthodox, liberation, and the ancient St. Thomas Christians of India
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Ask anything — type it or say it out loud
• Browse the questions people carry: heaven and hell, the rapture, purity culture, unanswered prayer, salvation
• See where the traditions actually split on a chart — and mark where you land
• Keep a private journal of how your reading is shifting
• Read the Bible in a clean, quiet reader
• Revisit any table you've opened, even offline
HONEST ABOUT HOW IT WORKS
Each reading is assembled by AI from how that tradition has actually preached and taught — its scholars, sermons, and classic texts — and it says so right in the app. It's an explanation, not a verdict, and never a substitute for a human pastor, scholar, or friend.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No ads. No tracking. Your questions, background, and journal stay on your device. We keep anonymous daily totals (how many questions were asked) — never who asked them.
FREE AND PLUS
Free: four readers at the table and ten questions a month, with a rotating guest chair. The Long Table Plus seats all eight readers with unlimited questions — $8.99/month or $49.99/year with a 7-day free trial.
Whether you're deconstructing, doubting, or just curious what the rest of the church has been saying all this time — there's a seat for you.
Terms of Use: https://www.thelongtable.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://www.thelongtable.app/privacy
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The developer, Chadrick Belew, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
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Information
- Seller
- Chadrick Belew
- Size
- 16.5 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Plus Annual $49.99
- Plus Monthly $8.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chadrick Belew
