The MonkeyBar Challenge is simple: grab some friends who want to read the Bible in a year; then sign yourselves up here and we'll send you weekly emails with the reading plan along with thoughts on each week's readings (including some questions to get your conversations going).

You could follow the MonkeyBars with an existing group, or form a new one for 2010. There's 52 MonkeyBars in all - one for each week of the year - and let's be honest: swinging all the way across takes quite some effort. So we're gonna take it one month at a time. Nice and peasy.

Community reading ideas

Sometimes it's not possible to meet with a physical group and talk about your reading together. So here's a few other ideas to help you:

1. The forum has loads of MonkeyBar content already where you can engage with a wider community. Any thoughts, questions, reflections, ideas - just put them down (they don't need to be polished) and see what others have to say.

2. Set up a Facebook group with the people you want to read with. (You can make it a hidden group if you want to keep it to yourselves.) Use the group discussion board or wall to chat about your thoughts.

3. Follow our @coreaders/monkeybars list on Twitter. Tweet 'follow monkeybars @coreaders' and the list will follow you. You can then follow it back! (If anyone knows an easier way to find lists, please comment below). Tweet on the readings whenever the urge takes you and see what other MonkeyBar followers have said using the list. (Don't forget to follow us @coreaders)

4. Use a live chat forum and arrange to meet online for a set time each week. If you have Google Wave you could start a new wave. That way you can re-edit previous thoughts you had if the discussion makes you rethink stuff. (P.S. For fans of Google Wave, another thoughtful playground item coming later in 2010 will have Waving as an integral part of the experience... watch this space!)

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How have you managed reading? What worked? What didn't? Share your wisdom and let us know by commenting below.