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PHILADELPHIA (BP) – An estimated 10 million more adults qualified as Bible users in January 2025 than in 2019, the American Bible Society said in its new State of the Bible release, but usage still lags pre-COVID-19 readership by 14 million adults.

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding so-called “trans women” from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Despite reports that the number of the religiously unaffiliated has flatlined in the U.S., a new study on “religious switching” says this is not the case globally.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Sports gambling feeds on greed and thrives on the exploitation of the vulnerable, Baptist pastor and former college football coach RaShan Frost said.

WASHINGTON (BP) – An underage girl identified as Jane Doe was raped more than 1,000 times, according to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), because of ads her traffickers posted on Backpage, where you could also buy various commercial goods.

Vol. 2 of Spurgeon’s sermons released through MBTS partnership; MBTS panel considers churches’ use of technology; Sean McDowell says ‘God is back’ at SBTS lecture.

NEW YORK (BP) – For Mitch Glaser, a Messianic Jewish New Yorker who leads Chosen People Ministries, 90 percent of the “jokes” are about money.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Non-religious couples are considering something that evangelicals have touted as a necessity for decades.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Fighting transgender ideology was part of the “common-sense revolution” advocated by President Donald Trump during his March 4 address to a Joint Session of Congress.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Throughout 2020 and into 2021, predictions emerged about the COVID-19 pandemic’s long-term effects on churches. Those included that a hybrid experience would become the norm, an abundance of church closures was on the horizon and in-person numbers may never fully recover.