Another Blank Bible Project
I can't count the number of e-mails I get asking about how to create a "blank Bible." For those of you not yet obsessed with the idea, here's the concept: starting with a printed Bible, you disassemble the pages and interleave blank paper in between for note-taking. This provides far more writing space than even the most generous wide margin edition, and gives you some control over paper quality, too. The downside? You increase the bulk factor considerably (which is why do-it-yourself projects typically end up as multi-volume sets).
Dan Julian documents the entire process for those of you looking to take the plunge. Thanks to a willing assistant at the local Staples, he makes the whole thing look terribly easy.
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.