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Fall 2025 Adult Preview: Religion & Spirituality

By Miriam Grossman | 07/25/2025 @ 07:00PM

This season, authors revisit familiar religious figures, contemplate Christian motherhood, and explore links between spirituality and the body.
Realm Makers Adds Expo to Faith-Based Speculative Fiction Conference

By Ann Byle | 07/23/2025 @ 09:00AM

The conference for faith-based speculative fiction writers partnered with the Christian Game Developers Convention on a new expo, which drew crowds eager to write and create games in the genre to Grand Rapids, Mich., July 18–20.
Religion Book Deals: July 23, 2025

By Ann Byle | 07/23/2025 @ 07:00AM

Recent deals for forthcoming titles see publishers pick up devotionals, children’s books highlighting God’s love, and a particularly colorful Bible.
New Books Challenge Christian Nationalism

By Emma Wenner | 07/22/2025 @ 03:00PM

As Christian nationalism gains prominence in the U.S., new books from religion publishers warn of unprecedented threats to democracy and pluralism while shedding light on pathways for resistance.
God, Guns, and Evangelicals: PW Talks with William J. Kole

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey | 07/22/2025 @ 02:00PM

In Kole’s In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms (Broadleaf, Oct.), the journalist questions the evangelical view of gun ownership as a sacred, God-given right—and had his own faith shaken in the process.
Powerhouse Preacher and Author John MacArthur Dies at 86

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/16/2025 @ 09:00AM

The conservative evangelical, whose sermons reached nationwide and whose Bible studies and commentaries sold by the millions, attacked “woke” culture and cautioned that many who claimed to be born-again Christians were “seriously wrong.”
Lifeway Names Joe Walker Interim President and CEO

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/16/2025 @ 09:00AM

Lifeway Christian Resources has announced that EVP and COO Joe Walker will lead the publishing house as it seeks a successor to president and CEO Ben Mandrell, who is departing for a senior pastor post.
HCCP Promotes Shannon Droge to VP

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/10/2025 @ 04:30PM

The publishing veteran has held numerous roles since joining HarperCollins Christian Publishing in 1998. As VP for publishing, creative, and digital operations, she will also maintain her current roles managing editorial, data integrity, and composition for books and Bibles.
Evangelical Rummage Sale: PW Talks with Michelle Van Loon

By Ann Byle | 07/08/2025 @ 03:00PM

Van Loon, a veteran writer and observer of Christianity, warns in her forthcoming book that evangelicalism is heading toward “implosion” if it doesn't ditch the sloganeering and back away from lionizing power and prosperity.
‘Now Is Now’: PW Talks Zen with David Chadwick

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/08/2025 @ 01:00PM

The author and lifelong student of the late Zen master Shunryu Suzuki brings to life the founding of Suzuki’s center of practice in California with Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West.
Whitaker House Acquires Million Praying Moms

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/08/2025 @ 10:30AM

The 50-year-old Christian publishing ministry arm of the Whitaker Corporation currently partners with Million Praying Moms on its Everyday Prayers book line.
Faith-Based Books Address Abounding Anxiety

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/07/2025 @ 11:45AM

A cluster of books from religion publishers arrives in time to meet the queasy stomachs and souls so many face in today’s stressful times. Their authors share ways to survive severe anxiety and help others in psychic pain.
Tyndale Partners with Grupo Nivel Uno

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 07/03/2025 @ 11:00AM

A new global sales and distribution agreement between the two Christian publishers will add 350 Spanish-language Bibles and books to Tyndale House Publishers’ worldwide reach.
Religion Book Deals: July 9, 2025

By Ann Byle | 07/03/2025 @ 11:00AM

Among recent religion book deals are an unusual look at God through the lens of grammar, advice on discipleship, and a biography of the new pope.
Three New Biographies Offer Surprising Looks at Major Spiritual Figures

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 06/18/2025 @ 07:00AM

Forthcoming books on the life of the Buddha, St. Augustine, and the biblical villain Haman each offer new perspectives on the men behind the myths.
Biblical Fiction Breathes Life into Scripture

By Ann Byle | 06/17/2025 @ 02:50PM

Publishers and indie authors say novels featuring biblical characters and settings are growing in popularity and helping readers connect with the Bible.
Religion Book Deals: June 18, 2025

By Ann Byle | 06/17/2025 @ 02:00PM

Among recent book deals are titles addressing loss, burnout, and children’s online safety.
Music as an Instrument of Torture: PW Talks with Anne Sebba

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 06/17/2025 @ 02:00PM

The historian’s new book, The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival, brings to life the experiences of the women forced to perform music in the camp under a horrific edict: play or die.
Baker Publishing Group Launches Imprint for ‘Clean’ Secular Fiction

by Ann Byle | 06/11/2025 @ 09:00AM

The Christian publishing house will debut Haven in spring 2026 with six romance titles. The imprint targets readers who seek what Baker president and CEO Jesse Myers called “wholesome fiction without faith content.”
Theologian Walter Brueggemann Dies at 92

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | 06/09/2025 @ 08:00AM

The esteemed professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and the author of more than 100 books on the Hebrew Bible and Christian theology and ethics, died on June 5, just weeks before the release of his next book.

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