The Auction Issue
Quite a few readers have written to let me know that the auction listings in the comments are getting to be a distraction. On the one hand, I want to make it easy for buyers and sellers to connect. On the other, I want to keep reader irritation at a minimum (at least, if anyone's doing the irritating, I want it to be me). So here's what I've come up with. There's a new Welcome post at the top of the site, which includes a notice about Auctions & Sales. The idea is that, when you have a listing you'd like to share, it can be added as a comment to that post. Hopefully that will prove to be a happy medium.
J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.
Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.
Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.