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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, May 28, 2014
New books look at the religiously unaffiliated--the "nones"--and at what it means to be born anew.
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Bonnie Gray: Finding Healing Rest
Bonnie Gray’s panic attacks started just as she was making progress on her first book. The attacks didn’t end until she turned from that project and embarked on a very different book, a memoir-cum-guidebook about her search for peace and rest in the swirl of modern life.
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Busy Busy Busy: Books Urge, Slow Down
Tethered to our smartphones, over-scheduled, spiritually and physically fatigued--all symptoms of a society gone crazy busy. Is running from work to school to church to practice to home and back again really the best way to live? A crop of new books says no.
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Christian Self-Publisher Adds PR Firm
A Christian self-publisher will acquire a PR firm to enhance its services to authors.
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PW Talks with Marcus J. Borg: Overturning Common Christianity
In his new book, "Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most," biblical scholar Marcus J. Borg ("Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time") reflects on the events in his life that shaped his faith and his convictions about the future of American Christianity.
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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, May 14, 2014
IPPY award-winners announced, a new kids' imprint at Barbour, a website for all things Amish, the popes in pictures and much more.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, May 14, 2014
A Mormon writer takes a spiritual journey; a Presbyterian minister finds support for same-sex marriage in the Bible.
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Sales Up, Store Numbers Down in Christian Retail
Christian retail sales increased slightly last year, even while the total number of stores in that market continued to decline, according to a state-of-the-industry report for 2013.
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The Great War and Religion: A Neglected History
World War I is remarkable in military history for its massive scope and loss of life, with more than nine million combatants killed. But its role in religious history is less appreciated, and an array of books coinciding with the July centennial could change that.
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Motherhood and Spirituality: The Struggle to Find Time
Julia Roller remembers when she spent uninterrupted, significant time in prayer and Bible study and was able to practice spiritual disciplines as part of her routine. That was before the arrival of a baby boy who didn’t sleep much. And then another.
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Cathy LaGrow: Worth the Waiting
A mother and child reunion was more than seven decades in the making. Now that mother’s grand-daughter has written a book about an extraordinary woman who never lost hope and the child she waited to find all those years.
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New Mary Book Launches for Mother's Day
On May 3 at St. Mary’s Bookstore and Church Supply in Nashville, Tenn., Franciscan Media author Julie Dortch Cragon, whose new book, "Visiting Mary: Her U.S. Shrines and Their Graces," is out for Mother's Day, signed books for some 100 attendees.
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Harper Acquires Bible Software Company
HarperCollins Christian Publishing announced yesterday it has acquired Olive Tree Bible Software, a maker of online and mobile software and apps for Bible study and devotional use that will complement HCCP’s online Bible website.
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Religion Publishing Update Spring 2014: All Our Coverage
The latest news on religion publishing for spring 2014. New books and apps, author interviews and much more.
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Religion Update Spring 2014: Books in Brief
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Religion Update Spring 2014: In Profile
Profiles of six notable religion authors with new books coming this spring.
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Religion Update Spring 2014: Spiritual Companions
It is timeless and universal,” Sheila Waldman, cofounder of Tristan Publishing, says of the topic.
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Religion Update Spring 2014: Love and Marriage, and Kids, and Books, Go Together
The topics of marriage and raising children are both evergreen and ever new for first-timers,” says Philis Boultinghouse, senior editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
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Religion Update Spring 2014: A Digital Divide for Religion?
A desire to make spirituality a more integral part of everyday life combined with the technology that makes that easier would seem a match made in, well, at least Silicon Valley, if not somewhere higher.
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Religion Update Spring 2014: Books Offering Help with the Practice of Faith Are Ever New
Christian church attendance has fallen from 43% in 2004 to 36% today, according to the March 24 Barna Group research report “Americans Divided on the Importance of Church,” and a lot of those who still go do so less frequently.