On the YouVersion Bible app, Americans looked for hope, not arguments, in 2023
United StatesRNS Bobby Gruenewald might know more about how Americans read the Bible than anyone else in the country. For the past 15 years, Gruenewald, an online entrepreneur turned pastor, has run the popular YouVersion Bible app – a free application that has been downloaded more than 700 million times in the US and around […]
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, […]
In African refugee camps, app replaces Bibles left behind
Kampala, UgandaRNS On a recent Sunday morning, dozens of South Sudanese refugees gathered inside a tent at Imvepi Refugee Camp to thank God for enabling them to found a new church. The new Pentecostal church was partly made possible by a new app that links preachers to Bible translations and theological resources from which they […]