To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of the NIV, Zondervan is doing what it calls the Bible Across America. It is an RV tour that is driving around the country and making stops in a number of cities. At the stops, people are given a Bible verse and asked to write it on two index cards. The idea is that by the end of the trip, the tour will have collected all 31,173 verses of the Bible in hand-written format. They are asking people to write the verses twice so that they will have one copy to auction to raise money for the International Bible Society and another copy to donate to the Smithsonian Museum. The hand-written version is to be called “America’s NIV.”

I found out about it earlier this week when my step-father got to write a verse during one of the stops in Johnson City, TN. The tour will be near me in Manchester, NH, on October 20, and then in Boston, MA, on October 22. Both of those are days I teach at the college, so I am not sure I will be able to make it to a signing.

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