“But this will be working with the same reading plan.”Īscension Press, Joyce said, is working with the Juan Diego network, which won the 2020 OSV Innovation Challenge, to produce this podcast. “We’re going to find native Spanish speakers to do this properly,” she said. 1, 2022, La Biblia en un año Podcast, which will include culturally appropriate commentaries and notes. Lauren Joyce, Ascension Press’ communications specialist, told reporters that there are plans underway to roll out a Spanish-language version on Jan. The Bible in a Year billboard in Times Square is expected to help Ascension Press expand that national and international audience.
“And they absolutely loved it.”Ĭurrently, The Bible in a Year podcast has more than 460,000 daily downloads, with 90% of them coming from the U.S. “We have just thousands of people who shared it with people who weren't Catholic,” he said. They’re not getting it in other social circles.”Ĭavins, who developed his “Bible in a Year” narrative timeline as part of the Great Catholic Adventure Bible, told reporters that The Bible in a Year podcast started when Father Schmitz suggested expanding Cavins’ “Bible in a Year” narrative reading plan across the entire year. “And they’re not getting that in social media. “They’re looking for a brighter future, and they’re looking for someone whom they can trust,” he said during the press call. “And hopefully, God has that word of consolation, that word of encouragement, that word of strength, and they respond in faith.” Father Schmitz, director of youth and young-adult ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, as well as the chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota, has been producing video short explainers on the Catholic faith for Ascension Press since 2015.Ĭavins said over the last couple years many people have lost their sense of direction and are experiencing turmoil in their lives. “I’m just reading the Bible to them and trying to proclaim God’s word,” Father Schmitz said on the virtual press conference call. 1 Podcast in Religion & Spirituality” from Jan. The Bible in a Year then dominated as “No. The Bible in a Year podcast - a joint venture of Catholic evangelist and Bible teacher Jeff Cavins and Father Mike Schmitz - has seen 142 million downloads and 3.3 billion minutes of listening from people all over the world.Īscension Press announced that Apple ranked the podcast No. The Catholic publisher announced a new Bible in the Year retreat, a forthcoming Spanish-language-edition podcast in 2022, and then teased a potential Catechism in a Year podcast for 2023. But the billboard was not the only new development Ascension Press announced on Nov. More than 330,000 people walk through Times Square on any given day, and The Bible in a Year billboard will reach them during the peak holiday season from Dec.
After spending most of the year at the top of the charts of religion and spirituality podcasts, The Bible in a Year podcast is headed to New York with a billboard in Times Square to bring the Good Book to “the city that never sleeps” this Christmas season.
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