What’s the Place of the Bible in American Christianity? Surprising Results from a New Survey

The complete 44-page report is worth reading in full, but they’ve nicely summarized some of the most interesting findings. What jumps out at you from this list of findings (quoted from the survey report)?

–There is a 50/50 split among Americans who read any form of scripture in the past year and those who did not. Among those who did, women outnumber men, older people outnumber younger people, and Southerners exceed those from other regions of the country.
–Among those who read any form of scripture in the past year, 95% named the Bible as the scripture they read. All told, this means that 48% of Americans read the Bible at some point in the past year. Most of those people read at least monthly, and a substantial number””9% of all Americans””read the Bible daily.
–Despite the proliferation of Bible translations, the King James Version is the top choice””and by a wide margin””of Bible readers.

Read it all.

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One comment on “What’s the Place of the Bible in American Christianity? Surprising Results from a New Survey

  1. pastorchuckie says:

    Couldn’t they have done something to make this page harder to read? (Dark font on a dark background.)