Faith-Based Titles Leading the 2020 Lists
What are religion and spirituality publishers highlighting in the first part of the new year?
Close Encounters of the God Kind: Scalzi, Others Mix Religion in Science Fiction
CHICAGO (RNS) — At his appearance in late October at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, best-selling author, newspaper columnist and social media maven John Scalzi tossed a 10-sided die to determine what he would speak about that evening. Sometimes it's explaining the meaning of life.
The Sin and Crime of Plagiarism in Christian Publishing
(RNS) — Plagiarism: It’s the sin few in the wider Christian publishing world will publicly talk about.
But peel away the layers, and it’s undecorated lying
Leaders Recall Influential Books (Other Than the Bible)
Word&Way asked Midwest Baptist leaders and those serving Baptists to share a meaningful book. Here are their responses.
When You Don’t Have Time to Read? Read!
About one-quarter of Americans report they did not read or listen to a book in the previous year. I suspect that many simply cannot find the
Craving the Spiritual in Alice McDermott’s New Novel
(RNS) “There is a hunger …”
That declaration, uttered by an old, crippled nun who has scrubbed away her life and her vocation in a convent’s
RNS Fall Religion Reading: Heavy-Duty Edition
(RNS) Fall is when reading turns serious again, after the light-as-a-breeze books of the summer. This list of new and recently released books reflects that return
Global south Christians love the Bible books Luther hated
Regions Martin Luther never knew have embraced biblical books the Protestant reformer never liked, author and educator Philip Jenkins said.
LifeWay backs off ‘read with discernment- label for books
Southern Baptist bookstores quietly have suspended a four-year-old program that alerted customers to read with “discernment” books by several up-and-coming authors whose books “could be considered inconsistent with historical evangelical theology.”
Groups oppose rules limiting books in prison chapels
WASHINGTON — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is among several religious and civil-liberties groups objecting to proposed rules giving federal prisons more leeway to ban religious books that officials believe could incite violence or criminal behavior.