State of the Bible: Printed Bibles Remain More Popular than Apps

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American Bible Society’s latest State of the Bible Survey: “69 percent of Bible users read from the printed Bible within the month preceding the query, and 48 percent used a Bible app on a phone, tablet or computer, ABS said, with the categories overlapping.” - BPNews

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Seek Wisdom in the Age of Algorithms

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“So how do we order our lives for God’s glory and our neighbor’s good in an age of algorithmic flattery? Here are seven considerations.” - TGC

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My evangelical Sukkot saviors

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“While Sabbath law didn’t permit me to ask someone to do something for me that I couldn’t do for myself, I hadn’t asked; he had offered. … They made Dovie and me feel as if we were doing them a favor by allowing them to be our chauffeurs.” - RNS

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So You Think You’re Facing Persecution, Do You?

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Peter “goes on in verse 15 to say, ‘But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.’ He wants to be clear that not all suffering is persecution.” - Challies

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Does College Get in the Way of Education?

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“A new book paints a dismal picture of the modern Academy and its failure to truly educate and not just indoctrinate. But are the authors’ solutions any better?” - Acton

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Healthy Distrust of Self

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“Paul was not self-focused; he didn’t spend his days beating himself up mentally for his failures and shortcomings. But he did have a healthy distrust of his own inclinations, and he saw to it that the circumstantial doors to those inclinations were kept closed.” - Olinger

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