History of the White Church Goes to Brazos
Brazos Press executive editor Bob Hosack took world rights to The Gospel and the White Church in America by Michael O. Emerson, with a spring 2028 release planned. The unagented author is an award-winning writer and researcher in areas of religion and public issues, and is the Baker Institute’s Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy. The book, the publisher said, will provide the first in-depth and systematic study of the nature and character of the approximately 200,000 primarily white congregations in the U.S.
Baker Asks Spiritual Questions on Illness and Dying
Janet Kobobel Grant of Books & Such Literary Management negotiated a world rights deal with Brian Vos, editorial director at Baker Books, for Dancing with Lois: The 21-Century Church, the Sick, and Jesus’ Call to Healing. Authors Michael and Tracy Balboni offer help to those who are ill, along with their families and faith communities, the publisher said, in order to address the spiritual questions that come with illness and dying—including those often left unaddressed by the 21st century church. Tracy Balboni is a professor at Harvard Medical School and researcher in palliative care, and Michael Balboni is a research scholar on spirituality and medicine at Harvard, and a minister. Publication is planned for October 2026.
IVP Title Looks to Reconstructing Faith
Kelli Trujillo, trade editor at IVP, has taken world rights to Kristen Mockler Young’s tentatively titled The Other Side of Certainty. In it, the publisher said, Mockler Young—a teaching pastor at Mosaic Church in Charlotte, N.C., and host of the Becoming Church podcast—shows readers how to reconstruct their deconstructed faith, pointing to a God who has been there all the time and is bigger than our doubts, choices, and past circumstances. Mockler Young is represented by Morgan Strehlow of the Bindery Agency, and the book is set for a fall 2026 release.
