{"id":2037,"date":"2023-04-10T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2023-04-10T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:40:08","slug":"the-state-of-the-bible-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2037","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Bible USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-state-of-the-bible-usa\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-state-of-the-bible-usa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming off Easter weekend, it\u2019s appropriate we look at the American Bible Society\u2019s newly released report, State of the Bible USA. The report positively found that when people engage deeply with the Bible, their lives are better, their relationships are better, and they flourish. Of concern, this year\u2019s report shows fewer people in America are engaging with the Bible. Scripture engagement is not yet rising; it continues on a downward trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, a downward trajectory in Scripture Engagement is not good for America in just about any way we can think of. But this is a reversible trend. When the Bible is important and truly meaningful to dads and moms, it\u2019s much more likely to be so to their children. And that\u2019s how we reverse this negative trend\u2014one family at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-state-of-the-bible-usa\/ Coming off Easter weekend, it\u2019s appropriate we look at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}