As a British publisher in the 1970s, Jan Collins found his greatest success with a jarringly modern Bible rather than racy novels or success manuals.

Mr. Collins was a senior executive and descendant of the founder of William Collins & Sons, established in 1819 by a Glasgow schoolmaster. When the American Bible Society in the mid-1960s produced “Good News for Modern Man,” Jan Collins embraced it. His company became a distributor of the plain-English Bible in Britain and later elsewhere in Europe.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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