Here we go, then: new year, new start, new resolutions, a time to try new things. My suggestion for 2014? Check out the massively influential, blockbuster-inspiring, world best-selling book... that nobody reads.
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It's hard to think of a more culturally influential, societally significant, historically important or spiritually substantial text than the Bible. And yet 9 out of 10 people in this country have no regular engagement with its contents. That might just make it one of the most undervalued resources out there.
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Everybody should try the Bible, but hardly anybody does.
Bible Society research suggests that only around 1 in 10 people in England and Wales are 'actively engaged' with the Bible. A 2012 report from Theos summarised research showing that 6 out of 10 people 'never' read the Bible - despite the fact that, in the same survey, 82% of respondents considered it to be either a useful book of guidance (37%), the divinely inspired word of God (26%) or beautiful literature (19%).
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