The owner of the world’s largest Christian music publishing catalog has closed its business, citing the effects of COVID-19.
Brentwood Benson Music—a storied business based in Nashville that reportedly owned some 60,000 copyrights—announced on its website that it would cease operations by the end of 2021.
I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.
The topics people search for each year on Bible Gateway are always interesting, according to Jonathan Petersen, content manager of the website.
But 2021’s may be the “most intriguing,” Petersen wrote on the site.
Searches for the words sorcery and sorceries saw the biggest spike, increasing 193 percent over the last year on Bible Gateway, which allows users to read and search the text of multiple translations of the Bible.
And that doesn’t appear to be because witchcraft is increasingly becoming mainstream, even trendy.