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March 2014

March 06, 2014

How Mark Driscoll Gamed the Publishing Game

Years ago, Rick Warren finagled his way onto the bestseller lists. Before Purpose-Driven Life came...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

If Zombies Were Allowed in Christian Publishing

A list from Ben Howard at On Pop Theology, including these favs: Zombie Love Wins –...

November 2011

November 03, 2011

Amazon Aims to Take Out the Library

Amazon made another big announcement today, one that will likely spur lots of Kindle purchases...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Will Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Merge?

It's just been announced that HarperCollins -- which already owns Zondervan -- will be purchasing...

October 19, 2010

Some Grammatical Pet Peeves

So, I'm grading papers now, which is not my favorite part of adjunct teaching but...

July 2009

July 15, 2009

Get a Deal on One of My Books

Today and tomorrow only (July 14th and 15th): TODAY ONLY Receive a copy of Ask,...

May 2009

May 16, 2009

Why Christianity21?

Next fall, Doug and I are hosting a learning party in the Twin Cities for...

May 01, 2009

Whence Religion Coverage in the News?

The Dallas Morning News pioneered the Sunday "Religion" section in daily newspapers, launching it in...

April 2009

April 30, 2009

Farewell, Christian Book Expo, We Barely Knew Thee

It seems that the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association will not reprise the ill-fated CBE. As...

April 01, 2009

Video of Christian Book Expo Panel

I've already blogged about this a couple times, but here's the video artifact of the...

March 2009

March 26, 2009

Christian Book Expo: My View

I'd been waiting for Publisher's Weekly to file a report on the Christian Book Expo...

February 2009

February 01, 2009

Pay No Attention to the Publisher behind the Curtain

Andrew Sullivan weighs in on that question.Traditional newspapers are dying, to be sure (although I...

January 2009

January 22, 2009

Interfaith Heroes Month

Geez, I had no idea. It's actually Interfaith Heroes Month, at least according to David...

January 07, 2009

On Blurbing

Scot had a nice post on blurbing last week. My own endorsement requests have dropped...

December 2008

December 22, 2008

Spiritual / Religious Book of the Year

Steve Waldman asked each of the Bnet bloggers to nominate the best spiritual or religious...

December 08, 2008

Recap of The Great Emergence National Event

Friday and Saturday of last week marked the inaugural event of JoPa Productions, a partnership...

December 04, 2008

Bad News for Those of Us in Publishing

My editor extraordinaire at Jossey-Bass, Sheryl Fullerton, pointed me to a depressing post from Chip...

September 2008

September 11, 2008

The Great Emergence

Phyllis Tickle's book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, is about to...

September 02, 2008

"Unorthodox Interpretation of Scripture"?!?

I like Marcia Ford. I've met her, and I've blurbed at least one of her...

May 2008

May 14, 2008

The End of Trickle-Down Education

Last week, I taught a week-long intensive course at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New...