Entries by Alex Goodwin

Announcing our Partnership with Seminary Now

We’re so excited to announce our partnership with Seminary Now, a new on-demand streaming video platform that provides exclusive biblical training courses from today’s leading teachers, ministry practitioners, and authors. The platform will feature courses from IFBR’s leading voices, starting with Glenn Paauw in the fall. Since we are a Seminary Now partner, you can […]

3 Takeaways from ‘State of the Bible 2020’

American Bible Society and Barna Group recently released their 10th annual State of the Bible report exploring various trends in American spirituality and Bible engagement. The 2020 report is a unique edition which reveals two sets of survey data collected in January and June, before and after COVID-19 upended life as we know it. The […]

Video: How the Bible’s Story Helps Us Talk About Racism

How does the Bible speak into our current cultural moment? What does the story’s trajectory reveal about God’s concern for overcoming systemic injustice? On June 25th we hosted a free webinar with panelists Dominique Gilliard, Michelle Sanchez, and Fr. Steve Delaney to discuss how how the Scriptures can inform our growing national discussion on racism. […]

Student Reflections on Immerse

Bible teacher Nathan Smith has been using Immerse in his classes at South Christian High School for over a year. After trying Immerse at Calvin Christian High School and seeing the impact it had on his students, Nathan became convinced that the organic reading experience and “book club” discussion model needed to be incorporated into […]

Video Story: Immerse at Chapel Springs Church

“Like so many churches in America, we do have a biblical literacy problem.” In January 2019, Chapel Springs Church in Bristow, VA committed to going “all in” with Immerse and embarked on an ambitious plan to read the entire Bible together in 2 years. Check out part of their story below, which is one of […]