Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, December 4th,

2024. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder

and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Bible sales are up 22% in the U.S. through the end of October compared with the same period

last year.

By contrast, total U.S. print book sales were up less than 1% in the same period.

What accounts for the rising popularity of God's Word?

According to Jeff Crosby, president of the

Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, quote, people are experiencing anxiety themselves

or they're worried for their children and grandchildren. It's related to artificial intelligence,

election cycles, and all of that feeds a desire for assurance that

we're going to be okay."

In quote.

Sili Vasquez, a 28-year-old artist and influencer, recently bought her first Bible explaining,

I felt something was missing.

It's a combination of where we are in the world, general anxiety, and the sense that

meaning and comfort can be found in the world, general anxiety, and the sense that meaning and comfort can be found

in the Bible. In quote, much of what worries us in the world hasn't changed. As Paul Powell

observed, it's not that people are worse. The news coverage is just better. At the same time,

a world facing the threats of nuclear annihilation, global war,

and runaway artificial intelligence is objectively more dangerous. And American society

possesses fewer tools for dealing with such crises than ever before.

Journalist Timothy Burke notes that the Soviet Union was an empire rather than a nation, meaning that the Soviets did

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