Bible Reference in the Electronic Age
Got questions about how to use turmeric, the mating habits of penguins, or why water still drips out of the faucet when it should come through the filter you've attached? If you're like the majority of the curious today, you'll turn to the Internet for answers. more...
05/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
Bondfire Books, a new e-publishing company, has been launched by Alive Communications, a Colorado Springs-based literary agency representing Christian and inspirational authors.
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Thomas Nelson and bestselling author Max Lucado have a signed a new three-book, nonexclusive contract. The first title will release in fall 2013; others will follow over the next five years. Thomas Nelson also will publish ancillary products for the children’s, gift, and curriculum markets.
05/01/2012 @ 10:00AM
Zondervan has signed Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to collaborate with bestselling author and illustrator Nancy Tillman to produce a picture book telling the creation story from Tutu’s Children of God Storybook Bible, which he published with Zondervan in 2010. Tillman will illustrate Tutu’s narrative. Zondervan holds world rights and plans to release the book in spring 2014.
05/01/2012 @ 12:00AM
Nearing Home by Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson) has been named 2012 Christian Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Watergate figure, prison minister, and author Chuck Colson died Saturday (April 21) at the age of 80. Colson became infamous as a creator of “dirty tricks” for Richard Nixon and for his role on the Committee to Re-elect the President as it put in motion actions that led to the burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices in 1972, and eventually to Nixon's resignation in August 1974. Before going to prison Colson became a born-again Christian; despite skepticism of the sincerity of his conversion, he went on to found Prison Fellowship and to write more than 20 books.
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
The movie based on the bestselling book Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller (Thomas Nelson, 2003) opened April 13 in 55 cities. Said Brian Hampton, senior v-p and publisher for the nonfiction trade group at Thomas Nelson, “We’ve been tracking sales overall and regionally since the movie premiered. We are seeing significant sales increases on the original trade paperback and the movie edition, which released prior to the movie opening. Overall, we've seen a 75% increase.”
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Our Sunday Visitor is publishing its own Bible for the first time; it had previously published Bibles only in partnerships. The OSV New American Bible Revised Edition releases in November. Also in November, OSV is publishing the Saints Devotional Bible, edited by Bert Ghezzi. The Torah: A Beginner’s Guide by Joel S. Kaminsky and Joel N. Lohr (OneWorld, Nov. 2011) is among the newest titles in the Beginners Guide series from the publisher. It provides an entry-level approach to study and appreciation of the first five books of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The U.K. publisher’s books are distributed in the U.S. by NBN.
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
You’ve heard of soccer moms and tiger moms. Meet Writing Moms and their new books, in case you’re stuck for an idea for the mother(s) in your life or in case you think you’re the only mom screaming and running after her kid with a wooden spoon. There's counsel for realistic parenting and a careful choice of battles; reflections on finding the right daily rhythm; stories of a complicated family; and a program to teach kids basic life skills, delivered with humor.
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Ann Voskamp has six children; 600 acres in rural Ontario, Canada; 1,000 piglets she and her farmer husband raise; and a book that has sold 450,000 copies. One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan, 2011) is her first book. Voskamp’s own story may be at least as compelling as her book, a series of poetic reflections on her life, beginning with painful memories of the death of her young sister and ending in Paris in grateful communion with God.
04/25/2012 @ 12:00AM
Jonathan Merritt grew up in the inner sanctum of the religious right. With a father (James Merritt) who held the presidency of the 16-million-member Southern Baptist Convention, the author got to know political power brokers such as Jerry Falwell from a young age. Yet rather than reap the spoils of his A-list connections, he’s taken them to task in A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars, lamenting how in his view churches, on the right and left alike, have been corrupted by embracing partisan politics. Merritt prescribes a more hands-off approach that puts spiritual and moral concerns ahead of partisan ones.
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