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A worthy goal for the new year
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December 31, 2020
Apparently fewer Americans are reading the Bible daily. A Barna study on behalf of the American Bible Society came out a few months ago (during the time of COVID-19) that showed a
drop in the number of Americans who claim to read the Bible every dayfrom 14 percent to 9 percent.
That seems strange since you would think that during the pandemic, when we have been forced to spend more time indoors, more of us would have found time to read the Scriptures.
It should also be noted that we are talking about at least 30 million Americans who carve out time every day to read the Bible. Theres no other book that would rival that kind of readership.
In times of trial and trouble, many Americans turn to the Bible for encouragement. And with good reason, according to a new study. In the middle of a global pandemic, a contentious election, and social unrest, the American Bible Society (ABS), with assistance from Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program, found a strong correlation between Scripture reading and hope.
Frequent Bible readers rated themselves 33 points more hopeful than irregular Scripture readers did in two surveys of more than 1,000 people done six months apart. The study also found that people are more hopeful when they read Scripture more frequently.
On a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the most hopeful, Americans who report reading the Bible three or four times per year scored 42; people who read monthly scored 59; weekly, 66; and multiple times per week, 75.
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(Photo : American Bible Society) The American Bible Society, via its Armed Services Ministry, has launched the new Hero Squad program to help families with members in the military cope during the Christmas season.
To help combat military families struggle over loneliness, discouragement and isolation, American Bible Society launched a program that would help bring hope to them in the holidays.
As reported by The Christian Post, military families struggle with loneliness and isolation due to being apart this year.
Lisa, a homeschooling mother of four and a chaplain s wife told the Christian Post that military life is hard and that people like them often feel very alone.
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Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.”
On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week volunteering at local homeless shelters. He acknowledges now how well he fit the “overworked Harvard student” stereotype, but during sophomore year the commitments didn’t strike him as unusual. “I was just doing what everyone else was doing,” he says. “I was just absorbed in that culture of go, go, go, go, go.”