Ministry Teaching Podcast Ministry Website Template
The Long Obedience
The Long Obedience is a weekly podcast that reads one passage of the Bible slowly and carefully, with no ads and no hurry. The site works like a quiet study desk: this week's episode first, then the reading plan, then everything else, so a listener can find their place in under a minute.
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- Built for
- Commuters, night-shift workers, farmers and parents who listen alone and want to read along; small listening groups; and supporters who keep the show free.
- Navigation
- Left sidebar. A fixed column holds the name, every page and the address, so nothing is ever more than one click away on desktop.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Piazzolla was designed for small, dense text, which gives it sturdy serifs and an honest, bookish texture even at display size. Set at 600 with a light italic for emphasis, it reads like a heading in a good study Bible. Hanken Grotesk keeps the long show notes calm, and IBM Plex Mono sets every timestamp and reference the way an audio editor sees them.
- Piazzolla headlines
- Hanken Grotesk body text
- IBM Plex Mono labels
- Color
The oxblood comes from old hymnal covers and the red ON AIR bulb above the studio door. The amber is the warm light of the bakery upstairs at 5 AM when the episode goes out. The neutrals lean slightly green, like birch bark in a Minnesota March. Dark mode is tuned for listeners reading in bed, with a lifted rose instead of the deep red.
- Page
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#F8F8F4 - Text
#1C1F1D - Brand
#772B2F - Accent
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- Page
- Layout
A fixed sidebar keeps the seven sections in view like the contents page of a book, which suits people who come back every week and go straight to the same place. The content column is narrow and generous, closer to a page than a dashboard.
Pages: Listen, Episodes, Read along, Live tapings, Listening groups, The hosts, Keep it free
- Hero
The hero is the episode itself: this week's passage, the hosts, a play control and the chapter timeline down the left so a listener can jump to the part they missed in the car. On the first Tuesday of the month it shows the live taping countdown instead.
- Calls to action
The sidebar action is Get this week's reading, because reading along is what turns listeners into regulars. Other buttons are equally plain: Find a listening group, Sit in on a taping, Keep it free. The underline button style keeps them quiet next to the text.
- Photography
Hands on open Bibles, a microphone in warm light, kitchen tables. The photographs stay close and quiet, like the show, and avoid stage lights. The one wide image is a straight two-lane road across the prairie at dawn, set behind the Nietzsche line the show is named for: a long way, in the same direction.
- Accessibility
Every episode has a full transcript linked from the player, chapter times are real text, and the player works by keyboard. Body text is 18px with a long line height for comfortable reading, and both themes meet WCAG AA.
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