Reviews of religion, religious issues, worship, and scholarly books.
Smaller Christian Retail Show is All Business By Marcia Z. Nelson - 07/16/2009
Most attendees gave the 2009 International Christian Retail Show good marks with lots of business being done despite a drop in attendance.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 4/06/2009 04/06/2009
This Week's Web: lyrical essays on a life in poetry, a celebrity psychologist on the sickness of celebrity, a graphic ambulance ride-along, the new science of talent development, and two excellent volumes on music and race relations. Plus: Cezanne the Godfather, Thoreau the arsonist, and Paula Deen the health-conscious (not to worry, it's just for a chapter).
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Spring Religion Listings Compiled by Sally Lodge - 02/23/2009
ABINGDON PRESS Funeral for a Stranger (Aug., $13 paper) by Becca Stevens addresses the issue of attending the funeral of an individual one has never met. Gone to Green (Aug., $13.99 paper) by Judy Christie. A woman finds new faith after leaving her corporate life at a large urban newspaper to run a rural paper.
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High Hopes for New Fiction: Abingdon Enters Christian Fiction Market by Marcia Z. Nelson - 02/23/2009
In these tough economic times, it's a rare publisher who's expanding. But after doing due diligence, strategic planning and careful acquiring, Abingdon Press will launch a Christian fiction line in late summer. In recent years, the market for Christian fiction has been so successfully cultivated by a handful of evangelical Christian publishers, such as Nelson, Tyndale, Bethany House, Zondervan ...
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