Young people are vital to the future of the Church. It’s important to understand how they’re engaging with the Bible – or why they might not be – in order to make ministry with young people more effective. The Patmos…

The Eight Conditions of OBT Scripture Engagement Research research seeks to discover the kinds of Scripture Engagement activities and perspectives OBT organizations and teams prioritize and to share this information with other OBT practitioners. The goal is to empower OBT…

Open Bible Images is an open visual Bible library built to serve translators, teachers, churches, ministries, and digital platforms around the world. The focus of the team is on faithfulness to Scripture, historical and cultural honesty and making images freely…

The Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL) offers a Scripture Engagement training track with courses accepted by SIL and Wycliffe Bible Translators as preparation for cross-cultural service. In 2026, the SE course will be taught in the summer: either in person…

This article responds to Anonby, et al, through a systematic review of eighteen separate Scripture Engagement studies that examined seventy-three distinct language communities in twelve countries on four continents. In sixty of these seventy-three language groups, languages of wider communication…

Around the globe, in a disconcerting number of minority language communities, there are reports of vernacular language Bibles not being used. The primary research question of this paper is, Do vernacular Scriptures become the/a normative text for public reading in…

How do AI chatbots shape how we read, interpret and engage with Scripture? Today, millions of people are turning to AI chatbots to deepen their understanding of Scripture. But does generative AI impact how we interpret and interact with the…

The complete annual State of the Bible report for 2025 has been published by the American Bible Society. Here are some of the highlights in this year's report: After three down years, Scripture Engagement and Bible Use are up. Millennials…

This study represents the largest sample of research on factors influencing Scripture Engagement to date, examining seventy projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania, and representing multiple Bible translation agencies. The data has been analyzed statistically to identify factors…

The Video Bible Dictionary is an ambitious project to film items, objects and places mentioned in the Bible which will be collated into a single resource (a dictionary of sorts) to help people understand and read the Bible; basically what…