Do you love the Bible?
That’s the question that one company considers its main criteria for hiring decisions. The organization isn’t a seminary or curriculum developer as one might expect. Instead, Scriptura Bibles is a business that crafts and restores leather copies of Scripture.
“We believe if someone loves the Bible, especially their own, then they will also care for someone else’s Bible well,” founder Dan Litevich told CT.
In “Book Binders Save Bibles One at a Time,” writer Ericka Anderson explores the ways that restorers like Litevich empower legacies of faith by preserving Bibles that are decades, if not centuries, old.
“As humans, I think we crave tangible ways of connecting with God and others,” Litevich said. “While our culture becomes increasingly saturated in digital technology, the more we truly need physical items—like a beloved Bible—to strengthen both our faith and, God willing, the faith of our children.”
The accessibility of reading the Bible online is a wonderful thing, reminding Christians of the importance of the gospel message going into all the world. So too is the extensive, intimate process of restoring a family Bible so that descendants to come can hold it in their hands. The process calls to mind verses about passing faith from one generation to the next as God weaves a legacy of faithfulness.
As we seek to praise what is praiseworthy in a world where so much is not, may we look for the people who are devoted to slow, good, and beautiful work.
