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A Progressive Take on Proverbs’ Timeless Truths
Shmuly Yanklowitz, an Orthodox rabbi, is offering a commentary on the Bible's Book of Proverbs in order to share wisdom for how to change ourselves and the world.
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‘This Is Us’ Star Pens a Kids' Book on Faith and Love
‘This Is Us’ star Chrissy Metz and her partner Bradley Collins are writing a children’s book about faith and the love between a parent and child in ‘When I Talk to God, I Talk About You,’ to be published by Flamingo Books on February 14, 2023.
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As ‘Jesus Calling’ Sells 40M Copies, Brand Expands
Eighteen years after its initial publication, ‘Jesus Calling’ by Sarah Young has reached 40 million copies sold this month, and Thomas Nelson is looking for ways to further grow the enormously popular brand.
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Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: June 2022
Two titles on the intersection of Christianity and mental health, a new novel by Janette Oke, and ‘How to Save the World’ are among the books coming from religion and spirituality publishers in June.
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R&L’s Religion Editor is Running at Full Speed
Rowman & Littlefield’s new senior executive religion editor Richard Brown discusses his plans for growing R&L’s frontlist, challenges in today’s religion publishing industry, and the need for books that “illuminate dark places of society and dark places of the soul.”
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Finding Hope When Grief Leaves ‘A Hole in the World’
In her debut book, Amanda Held Opelt reflects on loss, including the death of her sister Rachel Held Evans, and looks at different cultures to argue for why Americans must learn to normalize difficult emotions.
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Religion Book Deals: May 25, 2022
A modern take on saints such as Teresa of Calcutta and Ignatius of Loyola lands at Convergent, Chosen signs a pastor whose ministry focuses on young adults, and more.
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Books for Raising Kids on Spiritual Ground
Religion and spirituality publishers are addressing unforeseen obstacles, mental health challenges, and other pressing questions about what it takes to raise resilient, faith-filled children in new books.
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New Books Explore Faithful Fatherhood
New and forthcoming books on fatherhood coming from religion publishers are emphasizing connection and healing between fathers and sons.
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Religion Book Deals: May 11, 2022
Jean Stoffer of Magnolia Network fame lands at Tyndale, IVP Academic takes two books from author and international affairs professor Paul David Miller, and more.
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April Religion Bestsellers: Shannon Bream Tops; The Baxters Return
Timed with Mother’s Day, Fox News host Shannon Bream’s new book ‘The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak’ topped our Religion Nonfiction Bestsellers list; Karen Kingsbury’s newest installment to the Baxter Family series debuts at #2 in Religion Fiction.
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Ainsley Earhardt Celebrates Individuality in New Kids Book
‘I’m So Glad You Were Born: Celebrating Who You Are’ by Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt is coming from Zonderkidz on September 27 and aims to highlight the special traits of children.
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Touring the Tech-Adjacent World of the Amish
Lindsay Ems, a media studies scholar, shatters assumptions about Old Order Amish, their use of technology, and how all of us can engage the digital world without sacrificing our values in her debut book, ‘Virtually Amish.’
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'Forget Heaven, Remember Love': PW Talks to Caleb Wilde
Wilde, a sixth-generation funeral director and the author of 'All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak' (Broadleaf, May 24), explains his experiences with grief, ghosts, why he's now going forward by looking back.
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ECPA Members Hopeful, Energized in Philly
Amid what one speaker called the third phase of the pandemic defined by uncertainty, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s 2022 Leadership Summit fostered important conversations among Christian publishers about diversity, supply chain issues, market trends, and more.
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Senate Chaplain Barry Black Debuts a Book for Kids
Zonderkidz will publish U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black’s picture book, ‘A Prayer for Our Country: Words to Unite and Inspire Hope,’ on June 7.
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Tish Harrison Warren Wins 2022 Christian Book of the Year
At the first in-person ECPA Leadership Summit held in three years, Tish Harrison Warren won Book of the Year for 'Prayer in the Night.'
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Stephanie Duncan Smith Up at Baker
Stephanie Duncan Smith, previously senior acquisitions editor at Baker Books, has been promoted to executive editor at the Baker Publishing Group imprint.
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Faith-Based Publishers Center Diverse Perspectives
Religion publishers are striving to lift up underrepresented voices.
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Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: May 2022
The Dalai Lama expounds on emptiness, and environmentalist Bill McKibben reflects on faith, patriotism and social change, are among the upcoming titles from religion and spirituality publishers in May.



