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The data didn’t make sense.
The American Bible Society (ABS) and Barna Group researchers looked at the results from 1,000 cellphone interviews asking people about their engagement with Scripture. The numbers seemed to show more people were reading the Bible a lot more. But nothing else had dramatically changed.
There were not more people praying, or going to church, or identifying religion as something important in their lives. There wasn’t a corresponding increase in people saying the Bible was the Word of God. It was just this one metric, breaking logic and defying trends.
“When you get a big surprise in the social sciences, that’s often not a good thing,” said John Farquhar Plake, lead researcher for the
The free WordGo app delivers daily study plans straight to your phone, helping you connect with God through His Word. | WordGo
To combat the trend of decreasing Bible engagement amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, Bible Study Fellowship has created a new app that offers ready-made Bible studies for those looking to increase their spiritual fitness and study Scripture, either physically or virtually, with those in their communities.
Launched late last year, the free WordGo app offers a COVID-safe solution for Christian communities worldwide, providing 13 courses, innovative learning plans, trusted commentary, planning tools, and a variety of study guides.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Simon Lennox, director of WordGo, explained that app creators wanted to take the Bible Study Fellowship four-fold approach to studying Scripture and move it to the digital space, creating a way for people to start a small group Bible study resourced with BSF materials.
Master storyteller, media guru and mentor will receive Special Wilbur Award
Religion Communicators Council honors Dennis C. Benson
From time to time, the board of governors of the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) confers a special Wilbur Award to a person or organization whose body of work makes a substantial and unique contribution to public discourse on religious faith and values or interfaith dialogue and understanding.
As a master storyteller who sees the image of God in every person, Dennis C. Benson has interviewed more than 15,000 people from Alice Cooper and Fred Rodgers to ordinary people for radio and TV – over a span of six decades. In the process, he inspires other people of faith to do the same.
Americans’ assessment of their mental health is worse than it has been at any point in the last two decades, according to a recent Gallup survey. Nearly 10% of youth in the United States have severe major depression, and one in four older adults report having anxiety or depression.
But also, according to research, people in the U.S. are experiencing greater mental health challenges from the pandemic than other nations. Why is this, and what can we do about it?
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In my years of doing trauma healing work overseas with American Bible Society’s Trauma Healing Institute , I’ve learned a great deal from children and families in other countries who face extremely difficult circumstances. Many of them experience ongoing trauma and loss, yet they are still able to experience emotional healing and equilibrium.