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AAR/SBL 2025: Take It to the Streets: PW Talks with Leela Prasad
The president of the American Academy of Religion says the organization is diverse, defiant, and determined to stand for freedom in the academy and society.
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AAR/SBL 2025: Out on The Town
A brief guide to some of the best historical sites, religious landmarks, and restaurants in Boston.
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AAR/SBL 2025: Religion Scholars Step Up
This year’s annual gathering of religious studies and biblical scholars will take a stand for academic freedom.
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The Stories We Envision: PW Talks with Rodger Kamenetz
The author best known for The Jew in the Lotus is back with a new book, Seeing into the Life of Things, about what it means to bring words to our visions and emotions.
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Religion Book Deals: November 5, 2025
Among recent deals are a father-daughter duo’s picture book on God’s creation and a guide to navigating the digital age that draws from art history and Christian wisdom.
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Celebrating a Century of Jewish Books
November 13 marks the start of a monthlong celebration of Jewish literature, an expansion of the first Jewish Book Week in 1925. The Jewish Book Council, which launched Jewish Book Month in 1943, is marking the centennial with a suite of programs and events.
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Francis Chan Has a New Spin on Faith
The Evangelical author sold millions of copies of his book Crazy Love and led a megachurch until he receded from the spotlight. Now, Chan is back with a new book, dropping the “crazy” for a simple focus on “love.”
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Beyond the Book: Carmen Joy Imes's 'Becoming God's Family'
What is the place of the church in the modern world? This is the question we put to Carmen Joy Imes, whose new book, 'Becoming God’s Family: Why the Church Still Matters' (IVP Academic), publishes in October. (Sponsored)
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New Archbishop of Canterbury Is One for the Books
The Rev. Dame Sarah Mullally is the first woman named to lead the Church of England and the global Anglican Communion, as well as a published author. Her first book as Archbishop of Canterbury will be a Lent book of prayers and reflections.
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Religion Book Deals: Oct. 22, 2025
Among recent deals are books dealing with salvation, redemption, devotion, and political engagement.
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The Spirit of a Special Sister: PW Talks with Kathleen Norris
In Rebecca Sue: A Sister’s Reflections on Disability, Faith and Love, the author shares spiritual lessons she found in the life of her younger sister Becky, who was brain-damaged at birth.
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Activist and Author, Dies at 92
A progressive voice in religion and politics, Waskow wrote two dozen books guiding Jews to celebrate the rituals of their faith and take Jewish values to the streets and the ballot box. He died October 20 at his home in Philadelphia.
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A Life in Books: PW Talks with Jeff Crosby
Drawing on his 40 years as a bookseller, publisher, and now CEO of the ECPA, Crosby writes in World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading how God speaks to humanity through books.
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American Christian Fiction Writers Names New CEO
Prolific author Kathleen Y’Barbo Turner succeeds longtime leader Colleen Coble at the association for writers of Christian fiction. “When we are responsive to the market and the word of the Lord, there is no telling where we’ll go,” Y’Barbo Turner said.
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‘The Shack’ to Get a Sequel
Author Paul Young revisits the scene of his 2007 blockbuster novel with Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption, coming out October 2026 from Worthy, an imprint of Hachette.
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Through Tarot, Romantasy Meets Mind-Body-Spirit
Running Press will publish a number of new tarot decks featuring characters from such romantasy juggernauts as Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean series and Holly Black’s Folk of the Air novels.
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Religion Book Deals: October 8, 2025
Among recent acquisitions are books that take a fresh look at King David, a novel approach to holiday storybooks, and poetry with a Christian worldview.
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Holding the Holy in Your Hands
Humble items from skillets to shoes to garden shears can still carry sacred stories, says Rev. Laurie Brock in her book Souvenirs of the Holy: Encountering God Through Everyday Objects.
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Highlighting Spirited Voices
Mind-body-spirit authors bring big personalities to the page.
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Mind-Body-Spirit Publishers Embrace Practical Magic
In these turbulent times, it’s hard to look upward or inward. So, publishers are seeking to revive readers’ energy and inspire their psyches with new books that blend the pragmatic with the esoteric.
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