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Religion New Briefs; July 8, 2020
Christian Supply closes; Awards season is underway
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Religion Book Deals: July 8, 2020
IVP explores the Enneagram; Chalice updates, expands advice on discussing racism.
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Creating with Spirit: Christian Publishers Tap Craft, Decor Markets
There’s a growing audience for lifestyle books that give a faith dimension to crafting, gardening, and home décor.
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June Religion Bestsellers: Searching for Guidance
Readers gravitated to books promising resources, advice, encouragement — or escape —in troubled times.
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Addressing Racism Again and Again
Three undaunted authors tell PW how they push, book by book, for systemic social change and why it’s time to let go of “niceness.”
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Churches Must Grapple with a Legacy of Racism
In his forthcoming book 'White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,' sociologist Robert P. Jones focuses on the impact of structural racism on American Christianity.
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Looking Ahead: Will Writers on Racial Justice Find Their Audience?
PW asked agents and editors about the future for titles on racism after the urgent protest headlines fade.
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Throwing a Red Flag on Progressive Christianity
Alisa Childers says believers 'can’t change the core tenets of Christianity and still say we’re Christians.'
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Religion Book Deals: June 24
Zen Mama bloggers to birth a book for Harper Horizon; Zondervan adds a voice for workplace diversity, and more.
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Good Vibrations: New Books Look at Sound and Silence
Five new and upcoming titles address how sound resonates in the spiritual life, in mindfulness, or in turning in to God.
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Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: July 2020
A prison inmate's examination of how we are all behind the bars of suffering, a collection of poets' spiritual ruminations on the common fly, and the latest from two relationship experts who say God always knows your "love language" are among the religion and spirituality books publishing in July.
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Fix Your Mood, Fix the World
'The Book of Moods' author Lauren Martin, says controlling one's emotional state helps others because calm is contagious.
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Learning by Example: New Spiritual Memoirs and Biographies
The life stories of others offer spiritual lessons and a better understanding of ourselves, religion publishers say.
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Amid Protests, Religion Pubs Highlight Anti-Racism Resources
Faith-based houses are working to promote racial reconciliation amid the death of George Floyd and international protests by highlighting anti-racism book titles.
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Six Books on Faith, Mental Health, and Disability
From mental illnesses to physical disabilities, new books from religion publishers explore how marginalized people are treated in churches and what faith communities can do to help.
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Religion Book Deals: June 10, 2020
Zondervan takes a gift book on ‘How Far You Have Come,’ literary agent Blythe Daniel gets her own book deal, and more.
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Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: June 2020
Former NFL player turned pastor Derwin Gray shares insights on happiness based on the Beatitudes, an education professor explores ‘White Christian Privilege,’ and more in books publishing during June.
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Religion Book Deals: May 27, 2020
Christian singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken brings her debut to B&H, Convergent signs a mother and son’s memoir about opioid addiction, and more.
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Jennifer Lopez’s Daughter Debuts with Book on Prayer
Emme Muñiz, the daughter of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, shares her daily prayers in ‘Lord Help Me,’ a picture book from Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House Children’s Books releasing on Sept. 29.
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Francis Collins, Physician-Geneticist, Wins 2020 Templeton Prize
Collins, who revolutionized medicine by discovering a number of genes associated with diseases and authored 2006’s ‘The Language of God,’ has been named this year’s recipient of the Templeton Prize, which recognizes achievements related to science and spirituality.