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Waiting is the Hard Part: Books for the Advent Season
Christians have to be patient in the dark days of approaching winter before they can celebrate at Christmas the birth of Jesus. Religion publishers offer a few new resources for the season of waiting.
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PW Talks with Pattie Mallette: Justin Bieber’s Mother Tells Her Story of Redemption
Before she inadvertently launched her son’s career on YouTube in 2008, Pattie Mallette survived suicide attempts, drug addiction, and giving birth to megastar Justin Bieber when she was just 18. Her new memoir tells that story.
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Mary Neal: Coming Back from Heaven
Mary Neal must be a contender for the title of Most Reluctant Bestselling Author. It took the orthopedic surgeon more than a decade to set down on paper the afterlife encounters she had when trapped underwater during a 1999 river kayaking trip in Chile—despite the conviction she had been sent back from heaven to share that experience. Now almost half a million copies of her account have sold since May.
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Religion Journalists Think Politics and Beyond at Annual Meeting
Sponsored in part by book publishers, the nation’s professional religion journalists gathered for their annual conference Oct. 4-6 in Bethesda, Md., where they heard authors, data meisters, and political campaign representatives offer numbers, analysis, and story ideas. The upcoming election was the topic du jour: the Romney and Obama campaigns both sent representatives to discuss faith outreach.
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What Research Reveals: SBL Mines the Data
In the spring of 2011, the Society of Biblical Literature put some questions to its 8,700 members: were they using e-books? if so, how were they using them? which devices did they use personally, in their scholarly research, and in the classroom?
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Religious Studies Offer Fertile if Challenging Ground for Digital Growth
Six hundred years after Gutenberg equipped publishers to print Bibles and other books in a format that people could carry in their pockets, a new publishing revolution enables readers to carry hundreds of books on a single lightweight electronic device.
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The Digital Revolution in Religion Publishing Brings Business, Technical Issues
The digital revolution has arrived at seminaries and religious colleges as e-books lighten backpacks and, in some cases, take pressure off burdensome book budgets.
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Biblical Studies and E-books a Good Fit
Books in biblical studies are especially well suited to digital formats, but are all readers ready for the shift?
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PW Talks With Francis Chan: Multiplying Disciples
With three mega-sellers to his name (Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell), Francis Chan’s Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples (with Mark Beuving) will be published by David C. Cook next month (Nov.). PW spoke to him about his newest direction, which has taken him out of church and into the streets.
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Bibles and Sacred Texts 2012
Many believers consider their sacred texts to be eternal and unchanging, but publishers see things differently.
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Mary Lou Quinlan: Putting Prayer in a Box
The death of Mary Lou Quinlan’s mother in 2006 led to a discovery that would alter her daughter’s life and inspire a movement. Now a book, and soon a one-woman play, bring her mother’s unique prayer practice to a wider audience.
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Some Fiction Consolidation at Nelson and Zondervan
As part of the recent reorganizations of Thomas Nelson and Zondervan—which have been combined to form the HarperCollins Christian Publishing Group—fiction has been placed under one publisher, Daisy Hutton, at Thomas Nelson; fiction marketing will now be handled by a single team at Nelson.
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Naomi Kinsman: Asking the Scary Questions
Naomi Kinsman, the church-going child of two pastors, dreamed of being a writer--she just never imagined she’d write about faith. Her new book, Brilliant Hues, the fourth novel in a Christian middle-grade series, will be published in September. Kinsman’s progression from aspiring writer to published author, like her faith, involved challenges and changes: “If a young person is asking, ‘Is this right or wrong?’ it’s not a very far leap to ask, ‘Is God real?’”
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Religion Editor’s Note, September 2012
The leaves may die and fall in autumn, but it is also a season of beginnings, bringing the usual riches of new books and renewed energy for those who make them and bring them out into the world. This issue of Religion BookLine displays that richness, highlighting authors and books across the faith spectrum, as well as digging back to the missionary roots of Spanish-language publishing of Christian books, now a thoroughly modern enterprise that comes with unique challenges as well as rewards, and one that continues to grow. In this rapidly changing business, what’s just around any corner promises to be surprising.
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Stephen Arterburn: When Dating, Take Your Time
Stephen Arterburn is one of those dads who believes no one is good enough to date his daughter. But the founder of the Women of Faith conferences and New Life Ministries still offered his teenage daughter the unlikely advice that helped him recover from a devastating divorce and find love again: Date as many people as possible.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion/ Spirituality Books, September 2012
The newest from bestselling Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön gives guidance for uncertain times; an evangelical Christian returns to Catholicism; plus web exclusive reviews.
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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, September 2012
Scandinavian Hall of Fame honor; Brooklyn church’s literary series; election-season e-book; Christian Small Publisher Awards taking nominations; new hires and promotions at Kregel, Harvest House; a bestsellers list debut; milestones for Joyce Meyer.
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It Is Written: News in Bibles & Sacred Texts, September 2012
Hendrickson releases The Everyday Matters Bible for Women: Practical Encouragement to Make Every Day Matter (Sept.). Created in partnership with Kyria.com, Christianity Today’s online women’s magazine, the Bible uses the New Living Translation and features more than 300 articles written by such Christian authors and teachers as Kay Warren, Lauren Winner, and Liz Curtis Higgs.
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Greg Tobin: Remembering John the XXIII and Vatican II
Greg Tobin has vivid memories of speaking Latin as an altar boy and attending Masses where the priest faced away from the congregation. He also has vivid memories of the era when these things disappeared within the Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council. Tobin’s new book looks at John XXIII, The Good Pope who oversaw these momentous changes.
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Harper Finalizes Book, Bible and Sales Teams for Christian Division, Mum on Details
PW has learned that on Tuesday afternoon a staffing announcement was made internally to the Thomas Nelson and Zondervan employees who now comprise the HarperCollins Christian Publishing Division. A company spokesperson stated that the division has “finalized its structure and teams for Books, Bibles and Sales leadership. This means that our editorial staff can be 100% focused on acquiring and developing projects.”
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