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Warren Throckmorton takes on David Barton and ‘Christian nationalists’ revisionist history’
By Bob Smietana — December 1, 2023
(RNS) — Despite past controversy, Barton’s influence has found an eager audience with the rise of Christian nationalism in the age of Trump.
‘Jesus Calling’ tops 40 million sold
By Bob Smietana — May 31, 2022
(RNS) — Author Sarah Young began writing the popular devotional after a difficult counseling case during the Satanic Panic of the 1990s.
In new book, Sarah Young of ‘Jesus Calling’ hopes Jesus is listening
By Bob Smietana — October 8, 2021
(RNS) — A former missionary who shuns the spotlight, Young has sold 35 million devotional books since 2004. A million copies of her new book drop this week.
Publishing in Color conference helps spiritual writers from minority groups get a foot in the door
By Jana Riess — June 15, 2018
African American, Latinx, and other minority groups are underrepresented in religion publishing and writing. Next week, the Publishing in Color conference in New Jersey sets out to help them get a foot in the door.
The best book about Millennials and the church
By Delta Systems — February 19, 2018
Millennials are authentic and relational "resident crap detectors" whose voices are vital for the church -- if the church would stop doing everything in its power to drive them away.
RIP, anti-Mormon literature
By Jana Riess — July 11, 2017
Remember back when evangelical publishing houses used to have a whole cottage industry of anti-Mormon books?
Dying Christopher Hitchens considered Christianity, new book claims
By Kimberly Winston — April 20, 2016
(RNS) A controversial new book wins praise from evangelicals and condemnation from some who knew the famous atheist, who died in 2011.
COMMENTARY: On the Fourth, setting aside the ‘I’ for ‘us’
By Tom Ehrich — July 1, 2014
(RNS) In July 1776, 56 brave men signed a Declaration of Independence and pledged everything -- their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" -- to freedom and democracy. They set aside “I” and paid dearly for it.
Publishers are in seventh heaven with near-death memoirs
By Craig Wilson — January 24, 2013
(RNS) Heaven is hot -- just ask any bookseller in America. Folks have been going to heaven with amazing regularity lately. They look around then come back to report on the trip. For publishers, it's a lucrative journey.
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