ESV iPhone App Released
If you're not on the Crossway mailing list, you might have missed the big announcement: a free, full-featured ESV iPhone App. I've been playing around with it for a little while, and so far I'm impressed. Navigation is simple and intuitive. You can select passages and click Details to see cross references and add your own notes. If you're already using the ESV Study Bible software from Olive Tree, I'm not sure this will replace it ... but for those of you looking for the text of the ESV in an elegant, easy-to-use format, the new iPhone application fits the bill.
For more info on the features, visit mobile.esv.org.
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.