Have you ever wandered into an elderly family members home and noticed that every piece of furniture was covered by a lacy, beginning to yellow piece of fabric that resembles the doilies kids use to make valentines?  That is, for some reason, the same sort of thematic fabric that Christians love to use in their Bible covers.

When traveling through airports or public transportation, I often see people reading books, but for some reason, none of them have these covers… Just Bible’s.  So when you see someone walking and swinging a book like object covered with fabric resembling your Grandmother’s end table cover, you know it’s got to be a Bible.  The odds are even more increased that it’s a Bible if it has one of the following features….          
-A handle (holding it in the crook of your arm would be too strenuous)         
-pen holders          
-large amounts of scrap paper (bulletins)          
-it is more padded than the computer sleeve you just purchased for your new macbook          
-a Jesus fish          
-a zipper          
-a pithy saying           
-a dove          
-a veggie tales character          
-a lighthouse          
-a deer blissfully drinking at a stream           
-a tattoo art style cross (if you’re “emergent”)           
-someone’s initials in puffy paint