(Editor’s Note: Becky Garrison is awesome.  Sometimes, she sends us stuff to publish, and we feel awesome, too.  This previously appeared at Killing the Buddha, which is also awesome.) God may not have appeared to Mother Theresa, but He needs to promote His book. For the uninitiated, Book Expo...

Holy.  Crap. According to Newsweek, one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug cartels…wait for it…draws heavily on the writing of John Eldredge.  John FREAKING Eldredge. Unlike its cartel rivals, La Familia is motivated as much by religious zeal as it is by criminal profit. Its members pass...

I’m…astonished. Right now, Zondervan is advertising a book on Deadspin.com. I’m not even sure what to say.  Who pulled this off?  The only guy I can think of at Zondervan with this kind of forward thinking doesn’t even work there anymore, and doesn’t care too much about...

In the summer of 2006 I took a copy of Shane Claiborne’s debut book, The Irresistible Revolution, on a family camping trip to the Nehalem River in northwest Oregon.  As we tented under a canopy of firs and cedars, my husband and I traded the book back and forth as we enjoyed our time in the forest. Claiborne...

Around a year and a half ago, I was approached by David Sanford, founder of Sanford Communications1 out of Portland.  David was working on a project with Tyndale, a New Living Translation of the Bible that would feature art and book excerpts from throughout the history of Christianity, as well as a...