July 1, 2019 Edition

How a US-China trade war threatens Christian publishing: CT interview with Stan Jantz

Christianity Today — Stan Jantz, the president of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss how globalization transformed the Christian publishing industry, why China is such a crucial place for Christian publishing, and why he hopes his testimony can help the book industry overall.

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New speakers round out ECPA PubU roster and program

The PubU Brain Trust has announced these recent additions to the ECPA PubU program. PubU is the industry’s premier networking and training event for Christian publishing professionals, held this year on November 5-6 at Lipscomb University in Nashville.  In addition to more than 40 sessions in six publishing tracks, the program will feature bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst in a keynote on “Reaching the Heart of Readers.”  Lysa will also lead a session in the Digital Marketing and Reader Engagement tracks.  Recent speaker/session additions in each track include:

DATA DELIVERY WORKFLOW: Solving distribution for small presses with Andrea Fleck-Nisbet (Ingram)

DESIGN: A dialogue with renown designer Wayne Brezinka

DIGITAL MARKETING: SEO in 2020 with Jeffrey Kranz (Overthink)

EDITORIAL: Trends & needs in Children’s publishing with Linda Howard (Tyndale)

EMERGING LEADER: 9 Proven Strategies for Thriving in Your Career with Ingrid Beck (WaterBrook & Multnomah)

READER ENGAGEMENT & PUBLICITY: 10 Things You Need to Know about Engaging your Content with Minorities in the United States with Dr. Theon Hill (Wheaton College)

Early bird registration and more program information at ECPAPubU.org.

Bible Gateway interviews Tim Harlow, author of “What Made Jesus Mad?”

Christians love to focus on the gentle and tender heart of Jesus. But what about his righteous rage? In the Gospels, what, and who, ignited Jesus’ anger? How should we appropriately respond like Jesus when necessary? Bible Gateway interviewed Tim Harlow (@tharlow) about his book, “What Made Jesus Mad?: Rediscover the Blunt, Sarcastic, Passionate Savior of the Bible” (Thomas Nelson, 2019).

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Bible Gateway interviews John Greco and Ryan Myers About the “He Reads Truth Bible”

A Bible formatted with an artful design intended to appeal specifically to men, from its typeface to theological memos for increasing Bible literacy to color-coded genre identification for each book of the Bible to colorful infographics, charts, and maps. Bible Gateway interviewed content director John Greco (@johngrecowrites) and creative director Ryan Myers (@uberryan) about the “He Reads Truth Bible” (B&H Publishing, 2019).

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Pastor Rich Wilkerson, Jr. on Jesus Calling podcast: Relationship over perfection

Emerging from family legacy to plant VOUS church in the heart of Miami, Rich Wilkerson, Jr. recently joined the Jesus Calling podcast to share why Jesus cares more about relationship than being perfect. In his latest book, he wants people to hear the truth of the Gospel being the good news, that God is not mad but that He’s madly in love with you. Rich’s book, “Friend of Sinners: Why Jesus Cares More About Relationship than Perfection” is available from Thomas Nelson.

David & Tamela Manna share secrets to love, marriage and family

Authors and veteran BET Reality TV show stars of “It’s a Mann World”, David and Tamela Mann share a testament of love and family. Married for over 30 years, the Manns recently joined the Jesus Calling podcast to stress the importance of communication and how they’ve been able to keep that spark burning all these years. The Manns’ book, “Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family” is available from Thomas Nelson.