GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In the beginning was the book.
Long before Christmas became a retail explosion, before Christian-related toys, doodads and décor became a $4.5 billion industry, faithful Protestants needed their Bibles.
And the Dutch Reform farmers and small businesspeople who settled here between Holland and Grand Rapids, Mich., planted the seeds of what is now a world center of Bible publishing, scholarship and devotionals. Read more.