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Searches for Sorcery Were Up in 2021 - What Does That Mean?

One of the most widely used Bible websites in the world is the Bible Gateway. It gets millions of hits per month and serves as a tremendous barometer for the spiritual...

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The Michigan Shootings Surface Longtime Tensions for People of Faith

Last Tuesday, the news headlines were dominated by a story out of Michigan of a young man who brought a gun to his school and went on a rampage, killing four of his...

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Understanding the Bible: The Hunger is Real

The second most popular plan in the Bible App last week was The Bible Project’s Character of God. The reading plan helps readers understand five key attributes of God’s...

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Giving Has Not Declined For All Churches. A Theory on Why…

One of the questions that I get the most when I do interviews with members of the media is, “What will the long term impacts of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns be on...

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Trust is Waning in One Key Area

The biggest religion story covered by Christianity Today over the last week was the ongoing meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Meeting. That committee had...

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End-Times Curiosity: Are You Meeting Your People Where They Are?

One of the search terms that has seen a lot of movement on YouVersion over the last few weeks is the phrase “mark of the beast.” Each week, hundreds of visitors are looking...

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How Explorers Change The Way We Do Ministry

One night, someone new walked through the doors of City On a Hill. She had never visited our church and had recently lost two family members to COVID-19. After we had a few...

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Searches for “marriage” on the Rise, Despite Decline in Marriage Rates

While searches in YouVersion’s Bible app often turn up to-be-expected terms like “healing”, “love” and “fear”, one term that shows up consistently in the Top 10 is the word...

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One Simple-but-Important COVID Pattern for Pastors to Understand

One of the interesting ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic is that most Americans became very interested in statistics and epidemiology over the last eighteen months. It...

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Your Prayer Ministry: Move from Yellow Cab to Uber Overnight

I work closely with churches to innovate church strategies using data and technology. As a former pastor myself, I’ve learned some important lessons about how the most...

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Christian Sentiment: Vaccines Are Top Of Mind

Most articles that are published to online platforms have a very short shelf life. Within just a few days, traffic to those posts tends to slow to a trickle. But, that wasn’t...

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Harvard's New Chaplain is An Atheist - What This Does (and Does Not) Tell Us About the Faith of Young Adults

Possibly the biggest religion news story in this back-to-school season came from the New York Times’ Emma Goldberg who wrote about the installation of Greg Epstein as the...

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A Study In Collective Might: MarginKC, One Year Later

Kansas City is home to over 2,100 churches, ministry leaders, and city leaders who are passionate about serving their communities. Two years ago, leaders came together to see...

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