John Farquhar Plake, PhD

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Author | Editor | Chief Innovation Officer — American Bible Society

Dr. John Farquhar Plake serves as Chief Innovation Officer at American Bible Society. John brings a pastoral heart to the disciplines of research and innovation, bridging the worlds of social science, business intelligence, and spiritual formation, and helping Christian leaders understand how people grow in Christ. John is the author and editor of several books and articles for both scholarly and popular media. As editor-in-chief of American Bible Society’s annual State of the Bible research series, his work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including CBN, The Christian Post, Christianity Today, Outreach Magazine, Philanthropy Daily, Relevant Magazine, and Washington Watch.

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State of the Bible 2025

American Bible Society today released the seventh chapter of their 15th annual State of the Bible report. This new chapter examines trust in two diffe...

Featured on: Tuesday, October 28, 2025

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September 18, 2026

Penna Dexter

Explaining NEET

A young conservative Anglican, who goes by the pseudonym Crier in the Wilderness, has an essay at Virtue Online that attempts to explain a category of young men who are not in a good place. They are N...

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September 18, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Birth Tourism

Although the Supreme Court reaffirmed that birthright citizenship is constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, there is the related issue of birth tourism. Unfortunately, the media tends to confl...

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September 17, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Message to Students

Emily Austin recently spoke at the Christians United for Israel conference. She had a message for the students protesting America and calling for revolution. First, she asked them if they “have an...

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