Why ‘sorcery’ was the fastest-growing search term on Bible Gateway in 2021
RNS The topics people search for each year on Bible Gateway are always interesting, according to Jonathan Petersen, content manager of the website. But this year’s may be the “most intriguing,” Petersen wrote on the site. Searching “sorcery” on BibleGateway.com. PICTURE: RNS/Kit Doyle Searches for the words “sorcery” and “sorceries” saw the biggest spike, increasing 193 per cent over […]
Protests, pandemics and politics: The top 2020 searches for Bible passages online
RNS In the midst of a strange and stressful year, people turned to the same place they have for decades in their search for answers. The internet. A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, on 19th March, in Houston. People were lined […]
Bible Gateway marks 25 years – and 14 billion views
Claimed to be the world’s most visited Christian website, Bible Gateway has been viewed more than 14 billion times by people using more than a billion devices since its creation 25 years ago, according to the company behind it. Rachel Barach, general manager of Bible Gateway, said that to provide some perspective, “one million seconds equal 11.5 […]