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Patrick Henry

Executive Director,
Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research

I was one of the skeptics. Why hand write a Bible? Hardly anybody even hand writes a letter anymore. But then a friend, more of a natural skeptic than I, said he’d become a supporter because "This will get people interested in scripture," and I was converted.

The Bible, the world’s bestseller, is more bought than read, and if people hear that the calligrapher to the Queen of England is spending six years writing the Bible, they may think it’s just crazy enough to be worth finding out what he’s up to. They’ll learn he’s doing it because he finds God in the details as well as in the big picture, and the point of The Saint John’s Bible is to help others see and taste God’s Word again for the first time.

To have helped move this project forward by chairing the task force that put the plan in place was hard work and an occasion of grace. Donald Jackson’s artistic genius, spiritual depth and lightness of touch (he’s blessedly free of huff and puff), and eye for beauty – all of which resonate with the ancient and ever new Benedictine tradition of praying the Scriptures – make of The Saint John’s Bible a gift to all the churches.

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