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Weekly Brief is your 1-minute smart and fast report to keep you informed of important Bible-related trends, statistics, articles, and pivotal happenings on the Web and at Bible Gateway. Forward to your friends and share with your followers to encourage them to subscribe.
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The number of UK citizens who say they're Christian has increased in the past year from 42% to 43%, according to a national poll. Such a small change is within the margin of error in surveys but if it's to be believed, it shows that a decade-long decline in Christianity has levelled off.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Unexpected Christian Century: An Interview with Scott Sunquist and see The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches (Zondervan, 2009).
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The US State Department's Annual Report on International Freedom takes aim at harassment, discrimination, and violence that includes genocide against religious minorities—including Christians—being carried out by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and Boko Haram in west Africa, along with steps against Christians in China.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, I Am N: An Interview with Cole Richards and Jason Peters and see resources on the topic of Christian persecution in the Bible Gateway Store.
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See more Bible-related articles in this week's Bible News Roundup.
See previous editions of Bible News Roundup and Weekly Brief.
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See the Olympic Games section in the Bible Gateway Store and read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Purpose Driven Life of Michael Phelps.
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In May, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA announced that Tom Lin would become the next president of the campus ministry. He started August 10. Bible Gateway interviewed Tom, author of Losing Face & Finding Grace: Twelve Bible Studies for Asian-Americans (InterVarsity Press, 1997), about his vision for IVCF.
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Look beyond the Bible story of Joseph's coat of many colors and discover that he holds surprising insights for today's workplace. Examining Joseph's experiences as a slave, a prisoner, and the CEO of a food company in Egypt, the life of this biblical patriarch offers lessons for use in modern business, government, and education. Bible Gateway interviewed Al Erisman about his book, The Accidental Executive: Lessons on Business, Faith, and Calling from the Life of Joseph (Hendrickson Publishers, 2015).
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The late Dallas Willard, author of The Divine Conspiracy (HarperOne, 1998), had much to say about the journey of Christian discipleship in a confused and turbulent world. In the course of his long career as an author and philosopher, he wrote much about the active pursuit and development of a life of faith.
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The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (Zondervan, 2016), with notes from Dr. John H. Walton (Wheaton College) in the Old Testament and Dr. Craig S. Keener (Asbury Theological Seminary) in the New Testament, brings to life the ancient world of Scripture for modern readers. For example, see this Infographic that helps to explain the cultural context of the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10.
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This feature in Weekly Brief is intended to help you become aware of one of several practices explained in our Scripture Engagement section.
This week:
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Explore the unique claims of Islam and Christianity and examine the evidence. Pre-order No God but One: Allah or Jesus? by Nabeel Qureshi now to get free bonus content!
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Here are questions, adapted from The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight (Zondervan, 2016), to ask yourself at the beginning of a Bible study and again at the study’s end. The goal is to measure any change in your image of Jesus and yourself.
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