American Bible Society
American Bible Society to shutter $60 million Faith and Liberty Discovery Center
By Bob Smietana — March 14, 2024
(RNS) — Exhibits at the state-of-the-art center sought to portray the role Scripture played in American history.
ASL Bible shows that God speaks in sign languages too
By Robert L. Briggs — March 31, 2021
(RNS) — Millions of American churchgoers have been without access to the Bible in their native language.
Black history can’t be told without the Bible
By Nicole Martin — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — Black Christian heroes knew that the Bible had to be at the center of life as free men and women in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr. faith events continue in time of COVID-19 and Capitol chaos
By Adelle M. Banks and Alejandra Molina — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — Many online gatherings that mark King's birthday and the holiday in his honor will apply his messages to the current crises the country is facing.
State of the Bible: Left unread during the coronavirus pandemic
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 22, 2020
(RNS) — ‘What we saw between January and June was that 13 million people in America, who were previously really engaging meaningfully with Scripture, no longer were, and that was a serious drop-off,’ said John Plake of the American Bible Society.
American Bible Society leader: Don’t use the Bible as a political ‘prop’
By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins — June 3, 2020
(RNS) — President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both posed with Bibles this week, moves that seem political. It’s a bad idea, said an American Bible Society leader.
With new ‘affirmation’ policy, American Bible Society loses LGBT staffers
By Yonat Shimron — January 23, 2019
(RNS) — The new policy allows the 203-year-old organization, which was founded to publish, distribute and translate the Bible, to let go of any LGBT employee who is not celibate.
How the American Bible Society became evangelical
By Yonat Shimron — June 4, 2018
There is nothing unusual with a religious organization making employees sign a statement of faith. But the fact that the ABS has decided to adopt such a statement after functioning for 202 years without one makes this development noteworthy.
Employees quit American Bible Society over sex and marriage rules
By Yonat Shimron — May 29, 2018
(RNS) — Nearly a dozen workers have quit after the introduction of a policy that cements the organization's shift toward a narrow evangelical identity.
American Bible Society’s .bible domain policies restrict religious freedom online, critics say
By Yonat Shimron — March 13, 2018
(RNS) — The new domain strictly limits a wide range of faiths and essentially excludes any group with a scholarly or secular orientation.
Who owns the .bible?
By Marc Zvi Brettler — March 8, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The Bible has never belonged to one group alone. Its internet namesake shouldn’t either.
Ugandan pastor torches Bibles as the work of ‘devil worshippers’
By Fredrick Nzwili — April 26, 2017
(RNS) Pastor Aloysius Bugingo of the House of Prayer Ministries in Kampala ordered the burning of the Good News Bible and the King James Version because they used the words 'Holy Ghost' instead of 'Holy Spirit.'
American Bible Society marks 200th birthday
By Adelle M. Banks — May 11, 2016
(RNS) It has placed the Bible in the hands of the military and disaster victims and people who speak most of the languages of the world.
Citing lack of funding, New York’s Museum of Biblical Art to close
By David Van Biema — April 28, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) MOBIA’s fate was not a total surprise: The Bible Society, once MOBIA’s sole funder, had been ramping down its support. But the closing nonetheless deeply rattled those who treasured MOBIA as one of the few museums that routinely acknowledged art's religious context.
Priced out of New York, American Bible Society decamps to Philadelphia
By Adelle M. Banks — January 28, 2015
(RNS) The society, which supports Bible reading and seeks to have the sacred text translated into all the world’s languages, expects to have a staff of more than 200 in Philadelphia.
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