Bridge of Reason

 8 in 10 individuals who were hospitalized by COVID-19 said they wished they had used the Bible more.’ As we begin a New Year Reachout Trust is committed to encouraging Bible reading, which is in a poor state across the church. We have more and better access to a dizzying choice of Bibles, electronic Bibles having become very popular over recent years. It is reported YouVersion’s Bible App gives us free access to 1,839 Bible versions in 1,275 languages. Christianity Today reported Bible reading in the US has fallen away during the pandemic: ‘ Between early 2019 and 2020, the percentage of US adults who say they use the Bible daily dropped from 14 percent to 9 percent, according to the State of the Bible 2020 report released by the Barna Group and the American Bible Society (ABS).’ The troubling headline above comes from that report, saying , ‘Individuals were most likely to report an increase in Bible engagement if a family member in their household or a neighbor died from C...