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Episode 88: 2024 State of the Bible - Looking at the Facts

July 19th, 2024
by Raef Chenery

In this episode we look at the American Bible Society's newest 'State of the Bible 2024' which came out just last week. There are both encouraging and discouraging points of data to consider as we look at Americans and their Bibles.

See the full report here. https://1s712.americanbible.org/state-of-the-bible/stateofthebible/State_of_the_bible-2024.pdf

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