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47-755: American Bible Society is a member of the United Bible Societies , Forum of Bible Agencies International , Every Tribe Every Nation and not affiliated with any single denomination. With Trinitarian Christian faith that adheres to the Nicene Creed , American Bible Society does not consider Latter-day Saints or Jehovah's Witnesses to be Christians. American Bible Society's headquarters relocated from 1865 Broadway in New York City to Philadelphia in August 2015. American Bible Society

94-498: A Scripture collection over 45,000 volume holdings, one of the largest collection of Bibles in the world including a number of interesting and valuable editions of ancient and historic Bibles dating back as far as the Gutenberg edition , of which American Bible Society has several pages under protection. The collection contains editions of scripture in every language, from many countries and regions and spanning nearly six centuries and

141-514: A clear and succinct view of the conditions of business in the United States, the openings for entering into business, the vacancies women may fill and the crowded marts they may avoid, the qualifications needed for a selected pursuit, and the pursuits to which they are best adapted; also the probable result pecuniarily of each calling honorably pursued: in short it is intended as a business manual for women. Another reviewer in 1869 agreed that

188-582: A lecture series on the jobs available to women in the city. Penny was in Cincinnati in the 1870s, and she wrote: "my health bad, and my means limited." Her brothers' fight over their inheritance led to an inquest in 1874, during which—for unknown reasons—the judge committed her against her will to Anchorage Asylum , a psychiatric hospital near Louisville. She became destitute by the 1880s, having lost her inheritance as well as her books' publishing rights, and regular calls for monetary support went out across

235-399: A systemmatic research method to interview thousands of employers and workers. She used in-person interviews as well as mail-in survey questionnaires, ending up with 533 listings in the first version of her book: How women can make money married or single, in all branches of the arts and sciences, professions, trades, agricultural and mechanical pursuits (Philadelphia, 1862). Her unique book is

282-662: A war zone in East Africa. In 2013, American Bible Society and United Bible Societies launched the Digital Bible Library, a repository that houses digital copies of Bible translations and makes the texts available for repurposing across any media platform. Doug Birdsall was also appointed in 2013 as President and CEO. In 2014, American Bible Society contracted with ICANN to operate the .BIBLE TLD Registry. The availability of .BIBLE domain names will accelerate global online Bible engagement. The first site to launch

329-511: Is currently being jointly maintained and developed with SIL Global . The Bible Translator is a refereed journal, published since 1950, dedicated to articles about the theory and practice of Bible translation. It appears in two series – Technical Papers in January and July, and Practical Papers in April and October. Virginia Penny Virginia Penny (January 18, 1826 – April 4, 1913)

376-457: Is indexed to the Biblical texts enabling powerful searching and checking from the very beginning of a translation effort. Paratext has many other cutting-edge features including collaboration tools that allow for translators to work from many different locations. Paratext is also integrated with the Digital Bible Library which allows for easy archiving and publishing of biblical texts. Paratext

423-765: Is said to represent the three documents essential to the founding of the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bible. In March of 2024 the American Bible Society announced it would be closing the center. The Museum of Biblical Art , was an independent but affiliated organization and was housed in American Bible Society's building at 1865 Broadway, in New York. It has since closed. American Bible Society has

470-675: Is the second largest collection of religious books, with the Vatican's being the largest. 39°57′03″N 75°08′53″W  /  39.95077°N 75.14801°W  / 39.95077; -75.14801 United Bible Societies The United Bible Societies ( UBS ) is a global fellowship of around 150 Bible societies operating in more than 240 countries and territories. It has working hubs in England, Singapore and Nairobi. The headquarters are located in Swindon, England. The organization

517-415: Is to make the Bible available and accessible to everyone who wants it, and to help people engage with its message in meaningful and relevant ways. Bible societies are also active in areas such as HIV/AIDS prevention, trauma healing and literacy. Bible societies carry out their work in partnership with all Christian Churches and many international non-governmental organisations. It has an observer status with

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564-686: The Philharmonic Society of New York , headed up the organization over the years. Francis Scott Key , the writer of the United States' national anthem , was a Vice President of the organization from 1817 until his death in 1843. American Bible Society's first headquarters were on Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan. American Bible Society used the King James Bible , and, starting in 1858, appointed committees to prevent textual corruption. The American Bible Society provided

611-487: The United Bible Societies and partner Bible Societies in Thailand , Indonesia , India and Sri Lanka to provide a host of Bible resources to people in the affected regions. In 2005, it sent nearly a million Bibles and Scripture portions to those who survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina . American Bible Society formed a partnership with Habitat for Humanity to give a free Bible to each of its new homeowners in

658-510: The United States . In 2007, American Bible Society partnered with The Salvation Army to promote literacy with its program Mission: Literacy. In 2008, American Bible Society published its first polyglot Bible and presented a specially bound copy to Pope Benedict XVI. The text was printed in five languages: Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English and Spanish. In 2010, American Bible Society launched an annual, nationwide study to survey trends in

705-617: The Woodmere Art Museum . The piece was commissioned for its location at 401 Market Street by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority's Percent for Art Program, which mandated a certain percentage of construction costs for a development involving city-owned property to go toward public art. The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center includes a 4-story-high sculpture called the Beacon. The surfaces

752-553: The World Council of Churches and collaborates with the Catholic Biblical Federation as well as with several church organisations. UBS developed Paratext, the most important and widely used software for Bible translation. It performs many functions unique to the Bible translation task, and to the process of translating into a language whose writing system is still being developed. The text editor

799-420: The military , including producing a pocket-sized military Bible, developed jointly with the aid of Catholic and Protestant chaplains from all branches of the armed forces. Since 1817, it has distributed almost 60 million free Bible resources to America's armed forces. It also provides Scriptures to victims of natural disasters. Following the tsunami in 2004 , American Bible Society worked in cooperation with

846-539: The Affirmation of Biblical Community, an employee policy which requires staff to align around a core set of Christian beliefs and practices. The organization came under criticism as excluding individuals who are homosexual, stating they had to agree that marriage was between one man and one woman, or unwed heterosexuals living together, stating they had to agree not to have sex until they were married. The organization lost 20 percent of its workforce in 2018. Leadership of

893-479: The U.S. regarding spirituality and Scripture engagement called State of the Bible . American Bible Society launched a new Bible Search tool, an ad-free web engine that searches across ten translations of the Bible and targets the "Bible curious" and Protestant , Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers. Also in 2010, American Bible Society launched the Bible-based Trauma Healing ministry in

940-1054: The United States in 83 languages besides English. Foreign circulation was rising steadily, increasing from 250,000 copies in 1876 to over 2 million copies in 1915. Although American Bible Society continues to publish and print Bibles with partner printing presses, it ceased printing Bibles on printing presses owned by the organization itself in 1922. American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China in 1934. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 American Bible Society sent $ 3,000 to Elijah Coleman Bridgman , first U.S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. As of 1934 American Bible Society had spent $ 2,897,383 distributing nearly 70 million volumes of Scripture in China. In 1998, American Bible Society paid about $ 1.6 million to Sony Music Entertainment in order to distribute several Christian children's series, including Angel Wings and Kingsley's Meadow . In 1999,

987-475: The Workingwoman's Association in New York and led protests for women's wages and living conditions. She opened an employment agency and gave public lectures to encourage women to explore the many different fields in which they could work and get paid. At one point she also worked for the U.S. Census Bureau. Penny's second book, Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages

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1034-490: The blind in 1835. The organization was a supporter of Samuel Gridley Howe, who developed a raised-letter printing system called “Boston” or “Howe” type. A Bible using Howe’s type was heavily funded and sold by American Bible Society in the first half of the 19th century. By the end of the 19th century, the organization was printing the entire Bible in the New York Point System. In an incident well publicized at

1081-459: The book is a useful, practical tool for women: "Miss Penny has earned the sober gratitude of women, and men interested in the lot of women, by the labors of many years in the hardest and least remunerative fields of service. She is no orator, politician, or manager, but a delving, drudging worker ... Miss Penny's style is not especially brilliant or attractive, but is interesting; and better than all, her essays are sober, wise, and important." The book

1128-722: The country as she traveled to different cities (see for example her 1885 broadside To the Voters of Jefferson County while she was in Louisville and a report from the New York Times in 1902 when she was living in poverty in a tenement in New York City ). Meanwhile, her brother William, a doctor and professor in Galveston, Texas, had moved to New York and opened the Penny Dispensary on Long Island. While William

1175-411: The domestic sphere in a time when most authors spoke primarily of the moral issues of domesticity. She sought to make her book useful for social reformers, including suffragists, lobbying their municipal, state and federal legislators: "If what is said be the means of making plan the path of duty, or assisting any one in the cause to which it is devoted, it will have accomplished its mission (5)." Penny

1222-735: The first Bibles in hotels and the first pocket Bibles for soldiers during the American Civil War . The first translation by the American Bible Society was in 1818 into Lenape of Delaware , a Native American language. By the 1830s, American Bible Society sold several English Bibles and Testaments, including a pocket version. The organization owned stereotype plates that allowed it to print Scripture in French, Spanish, and German. It also carried Bibles from other printers in various languages, including Gaelic, Welsh, Dutch, Mohawk, Hawaiian, and Seneca. American Bible Society began its outreach to

1269-407: The first of its kind to present not only the kinds of jobs in which women were employed then, but also those where, by reason of gender discrimination, they could have worked but were not employed in great numbers. Her thematic essays accompanying the lists of jobs included her analysis of the effects of the job on the health of its laborforce, the typical wages (and gender differentials), the length of

1316-599: The former slaves there, the ABS left domestic distribution in the hands of its state auxiliaries, who refused to distribute Bibles directly to slaves. The Society was widely seen as insufficiently committed to the abolition of slavery, to the point that the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society "decided to throw most of its support behind the American Missionary Society , an organization that it believed

1363-639: The influence of the Bible on individuals in key historical and personal moments." The project was originally slated to begin construction in Spring of 2017. The Center was completed and opened in 2021. American Bible Society leadership described the FLDC as “...an exciting experience for people of all faiths and backgrounds," In 2019, American Bible Society paid to relocate White Water, a 40-foot-long, 16-foot high masterpiece of geometric stainless steel sculpture of 1978 by Robinson Fredenthal, from 401 Market Street to

1410-766: The many different types of jobs for women in New York City. By 1920, it was one of the oldest office buildings in the city. The American Bible Society's mission is to make the Bible available to all people and to that end, during the 19th century, four canvasses of the United States for this purpose were undertaken. These canvasses took place in 1829, 1856, 1866, and in 1882. During the fourth canvass, in 1882, more than 6.3 million families were visited, and 473,806 families were supplied with Bibles; in addition nearly 300,000 individuals received Bibles. American Bible Society sold 437,000 Scriptures and portions in 1898 in China. By 1912, American Bible Society issued Bibles for use in

1457-503: The organization claims the 20 percent attrition in 2018 was consistent with annual totals, but could not show that the organization suffered a 20% loss in staff in 2017, prior to the new Affirmation policy. On October 28, 2019, American Bible Society announced the retirement of President Roy Peterson. He had held the role since 2014. Robert Briggs was announced as the Interim President and CEO. On June 23, 2020, Robert L. Briggs

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1504-589: The organization launched its first major Internet ministry, ForMinistry.com, a free church web-builder. Operations ceased in 2013 after 14 years of serving over 180,000 churches and ministries. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks , American Bible Society distributed more than one million Scriptures and offered downloadable portions free of charge to those affected by the tragedy. Staff members also volunteered at Ground Zero distributing Scripture Portions to rescue workers. It has also maintained its commitment to

1551-555: The principal of the Female Department at Van Rensselaer Academy in Missouri. By the late 1850s, she had traveled to several big cities in the U.S. to study women's jobs and she used libraries to find information about European women. She lived in New York City from 1859 to 1861 to finalize her research and to publish what became the first publication of what jobs were open to women and what wages they might earn. Penny used

1598-643: The printing plates and her rights to her book to a new publisher for $ 100. Walker, Wise and Company in Boston republished it in 1863 under a new title: The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work . This version of the book was widely distributed and reviewed in scholarly as well as general literary works (see for example the review by Burwell N. Carter of Williamstown, Kentucky in The Land We Love (August, 1867)). In her preface to her 1863 book, she writes: I desire to present to those interested

1645-551: The time, the ABS refused a donation offered in 1834 by the American Anti-Slavery Society . The purpose was to subsidize the distribution of Bibles to American slaves , about one-sixth of the population, as abolitionists believed that knowledge of the Bible hastened the end of slavery. (That the Bible supported slavery was maintained by a number of Southern clergymen.) While it sent Bibles to Liberia for

1692-428: The working day, as well as qualifications and length of training for a particular type of job. The book's intended audience, women seeking employment, was encouraged to explore ways by which to be job-ready and to not give up when first turned away because of gender discrimination. Given the lack of advertisement of Penny's book (self-published using her inheritance), it was not widely distributed. The next year, she sold

1739-635: Was American.Bible in September 2015 In 2014, Roy Peterson succeeded Doug Birdsall, having previously served as President of the Seed Company and Wycliffe Bible Translators . In 2015, American Bible Society announced that it had sold 1865 Broadway to AvalonBay Communities for US$ 300 million and was moving to a new location in Philadelphia, leasing 100,000 square feet at 401 Market Street . In December, 2017, American Bible Society introduced

1786-847: Was a founding member of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Association when it was first formed in 1881 right after a convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association in Louisville, Kentucky . This group was the first suffrage organization to represent a state in the South. At one point in her later life, Penny organized the funding for and managed an employment agency in the American Bible Society's Bible House located between Third and Fourth Avenues, at Ninth Street in New York City . She included as part of her services

1833-623: Was a social reformer and an economist, being the first to study women's labor markets both in the U.S. and in Europe. Her books were an important resource for the members of the newly formed American Social Science Association . She also served as an early leader of the American women's suffrage movement before coming more involved in labor union organization and running her own employment agency for women. The eldest daughter of Rachel Ruble and William Penny of Louisville, Kentucky , Virginia Penny

1880-615: Was appointed by the Board of Directors as permanent President and CEO. In 2022, after two years on the job, President Robert Briggs left American Bible Society. Jeff Brown, former board chairman stepped in as interim president. Brown was then replaced in September of 2022 by another former board member, David Viehman. Paul Cleckner joined as Interim CEO in 2023, having previously held the role of interim CEO of Women’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In January of 2024, Dr. Jennifer Holloran

1927-743: Was born on January 18, 1826, into a slaveowning family. Her father served as a city councilman and also co-founded the Louisville Savings Bank. At least three of her four brothers played a large role in her later life: After attending for two years, Penny graduated in 1845 from the Steubenville Female Seminary , run by the Presbyterians in Ohio. She taught there, in Illinois and Kentucky; and she served as

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1974-613: Was founded in 1816 by prominent American Protestants. The first President was Elias Boudinot , who had been President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783. John Jay , the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court , was named president in 1821, and a number of illustrious individuals like Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen and Edwin Francis Hyde , a former president of

2021-443: Was founded in 1948 with representatives from national Biblical societies . In 2008, it had 100 member societies. In 2013, it had 145 member societies in more than 200 countries. In 2019, it had translated the entire bible with her partners in 694 languages. As of 2024, United Bible Societies is a Fellowship of around 150 Bible Societies working in more than 240 countries and territories. The mission of United Bible Societies

2068-511: Was introduced as the new president and CEO of American Bible Society. Dr. Holloran had previously served for 22 years in various leadership roles at Wycliffe Bible Translators USA, most recently as chief operating officer. The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center is a museum that opened on Independence Mall in the summer of 2021. It says it "explores the relationship between faith and liberty in America from its founding to today, by illuminating

2115-485: Was making a 'systematic effort' to get Bibles and tracts to slaves." In 1852, while Theodore Frelinghuysen was President of American Bible Society, the Bible House was built, occupying the whole of the block bounded by Third and Fourth Avenues, Astor Place , and Ninth Street in New York City. Suffragist and economist Virginia Penny offered an employment office for women in the Bible House, and she gave lectures on

2162-403: Was published in 1869. This was a compilation of her speeches and articles, giving a more in-depth economic analysis of the status of women laborers and here she laid out her solutions that place her firmly in the school of feminist economists and social theorists who follow in her footsteps many decades later. She advocated for married women's property rights and wrote of the use-value of women in

2209-747: Was republished many times over the years; and, in 1867, the book was adapted and translated into German. In May 1867, Penny attended the second convention of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) where she was elected as the Kentucky representative among the Vice-Presidents. Her reputation for her work and ideas for women's rights had been firmly established by then and she joined a global network of activists working for women's suffrage as well as equal rights for all. She participated in union activities, including

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