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Category Archives: Statistics

What Answers are People Looking for from the Bible in an Age of Coronavirus?

If we survey the queries on Bible Gateway that are trending above normal this week, they fall into three main categories: the end of the world, disease, and fear. Also bats. [Read these 5 Bible verses when you feel anxious] As happens in many geopolitical crises (most recently, the conflict between the USA and Iran […]

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Study 2019: USA Cities Ranked By Their Most Post-Christian Status

[Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, What Does It Mean to Live in a Post-Truth World?: An Interview with Abdu Murray] According to Barna research (@barnagroup), the most post-Christian city in America is Springfield–Holyoke, MA. And the northeast/New England portion of the United States is the most post-Christian region, since the top eight city areas […]

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Rachel Barach Talks About Bible Gateway’s Present and Future at Living With Faith

What countries use Bible Gateway the most? How many Scripture annotations do Bible Gateway users make each month? What are the site’s most-used features? Rachel Barach answers these and other questions in a new interview at Living With Faith. Here’s a short bit from the interview: LWF: Our own sites are getting increasingly more visitors […]

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Most People Prefer to Memorize Scripture Without “Thee” and “Thou”

The majority of Bible Gateway users responding to an online survey say they use modern English Bible translations to devote Scripture verses to memory. We asked blog readers “What English Bible translation do you primarily use to memorize Scripture?” More than 2,000 of you responded. Of that number, 63% chose Bible versions other than the […]

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What Are People Searching For in the Bible? Revisited

Earlier this year, our friends at GMI created an informative infographic breaking down popular Bible searches by country. They’ve just released a new “video Infographic” that walks through the highlights, and presents some discussion questions based on the data: What do you make of the data, and the questions it suggests? In our original post […]

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What People Use the Internet For

When we saw that Americans spend most of their online time in social networking and emailing—according to an online survey by GfK and the Interactive Advertising Bureau—we thought it may be helpful to remind you of the many places you can encounter Bible Gateway’s daily Internet content. The study says the average American interacts with […]

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75% in USA Believe the Bible is in Some Way Connected to God

Three in four Americans say they believe the Bible is the Word of God, according to a recently released Gallup (@Gallup) survey. But 21% consider it fables and history. These statistics mirror the percentage of Americans identifying themselves as Christian (76%) and non-Christian (22%) in Gallup’s 2013 religion aggregate. [See our previous blogpost, A Summary […]

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A Summary of Recent Bible Reading Surveys

The Bible remains America’s favorite book, according to the most recent Harris Poll. This year, just as in 2008 when The Harris Poll last asked this question, the number one book is the Bible. It’s now followed by Gone with the Wind, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and To Kill a Mockingbird. The […]

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The 10 Most Popular Books of the Bible

What are the most popular Bible books? We took a look at Bible Gateway’s usage data to find out which books are most popular with our website visitors. Here’s what we found. The 10 Most Popular Bible Books Psalms Matthew John Romans Proverbs Genesis Luke 1 Corinthians Isaiah Acts Jeffrey Kranz (@Jeffrey_the_Red) of The Overview […]

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What Are People Around the World Searching For in the Bible?

Do Bible readers in different parts of the world gravitate toward different sections of the Bible? Here’s a chart that lays out the most popular Bible passages in different countries.

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