YouVersion Bible app hires former Facebook exec to fuel growth
United StatesRNS This past Sunday (15th January), more than 12 million people turned on their smartphones to open up the Good Book. It was the highest ever daily engagement in the nearly 15-year history of the YouVersion Bible app. If Bobby Gruenewald, the Oklahoma-based pastor who has overseen the free Bible app since the beginning, […]
“Better to be resilient”: How can drought-parched Somalia break out of endless crisis?
Boosting drought resilience, in part by focusing on local priorities, could cut long-term need for humanitarian aid, experts say. LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Celebrations in the UK and beyond as ‘Amazing Grace’ marks 250 years
Norwich, UK Sung more than 10 million times every year, Amazing Grace has become much more than just a song as Amanda Molcher, a trustee at the Cowper & Newton Museum discovered while researching what it meant to people. This little museum in Olney, Buckinghamshire, focuses on Amazing Grace and its author, Rev John Newton, […]
Essay: “The shoes needing filling are on the large side of big” – Jacinda Ardern’s legacy and Labour’s new challenge
RICHARD SHAW, professor of politics at Massey University in New Zealand, reflects – in an article first published on The Conversation – on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s resignation…