Reverent Joy:Crossway Launches ReadersBible.org, Releases Video

To mark the official launch of the ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set, Crossway has released a new promotional video and a dedicated website: ReadersBible.org.

Introducing the 'ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set' from Crossway on Vimeo.

The new video includes the earlier scenes from L.E.G.O. I shared in my original post, along with a lot more detail about the design and execution of the set. Fair warning: If you don't plan to buy one of these Bibles, don't watch the video. It chronicles every painstaking detail in loving close-ups and captures what Erik Maldre, Crossway's director of design, describes as the "reverent joy" with which the ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set was created.

The ESV Reader's Bible, Six-Volume Set Complete Series

Part 1: Simply Beautiful

Part 2: Layout & Typography

Part 3: Paper Performance

"Reverent Joy": Crossway Launches ReadersBible.org, Releases Video

More to come!

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.