Tauber Up at HarperOne; Colson Book Releasing Early; Bad Boy Rabbi Speaks; Pastors Event Going Green
by Lynn Garrett, Religion BookLine -- Publishers Weekly, 1/16/2008
Mark Tauber has been promoted to senior v-p, publisher at HarperOne. Before joining the marketing department of Harper San Francisco in 2002 Tauber co-founded Waterfront Media. He also helped found Beliefnet.com—recently sold to News Corp.--and worked for Oxford University Press.
Zondervan is moving up the ship date for The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters by Chuck Colson and Harold Fickett, to take advantage of some early exposure for the book. It had been scheduled to ship February 1, but began shipping last Friday, in response, Zondervan says, to "growing demand and overwhelming support from top Christian leaders." Colson already spoke at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church the first weekend in January and will speak tomorrow (Jan. 17) at the ReThink conference at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. The conference will be simulcast to 5,000 churches.
Niles Eliot Goldstein, rabbi of the New Shul, an innovative congregation in Greenwich Village and author of Craving the Divine: A Spiritual Guide for Today's Perplexed (HiddenSpring), will speak January 31 at The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. (at 76th) at 7:30 p.m. Admission ($15 for members and $20 for nonmembers) includes a free signed copy of the book. Register at www.JCCManhattan.org/Makom. Known as "the bad boy rabbi," Goldstein is also the author of Gonzo Judaism (St. Martin's Press) and God at the Edge (Harmony/Bell Tower).
The National Pastors Conference—cosponsored by InterVarsity Press and Zondervan—is going green this year. The conference is being held February 26-29 at the Town and Country resort and convention center in San Diego, Calif., and organizers are taking steps to minimize the creation of waste material, which is estimated by a state of California study to average 2.4 pounds per person at events such as this. With 3,000 attendees expected, that could result in 6,000 pounds of waste without these efforts. Among the ways waste production will be minimized are electronic advertising, promotion, registration and confirmation; online provision of conference information; strategies to encourage sponsors to reduce, reuse and recycle materials; use of cloth tablecloths and metal silverware (as well as the elimination of individual condiment packets) in the food service areas; and providing attendees with reusable water bottles and cloth bags. Attendees will also be urged to do their part in reusing and recycling materials and not requesting daily washing of bed linens and towels. Said Joe Sherman, v-p of pastor and church engagement at Zondervan, "Our hope is that attendees will take these green initiatives beyond their time here and put them into practice in their own communities, churches and homes."
