July 13, 2020 Edition

July Christian Bestseller Lists: Books on racial justice rise to top

Some very fine books, published by ECPA members, on the topic of racial justice and reconciliation have appeared on this month’s Christian bestseller lists. Two titles included in the month’s top 10, are New York Times bestsellers. Coming in at #6 is The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby (Zondervan).

View all of July’s bestseller lists in several categories
View the industry list of Christian books on racial justice

ECPA hosts conversation this week on diversity initiatives that sustain real change

ECPA launched a three-part webinar series last week called ECPA FOCUS with a conversation on China, Global Publishing and Sourcing.  This week on Thursday, Stan Jantz will talk with Jevon Bolden (Embolden Media), Skot Welch (Global Bridgebuilders), and Dr. Theon Hill (Wheaton College) on meaningful diversity initiatives each organization can take to build trust and sustain change.  This free series is for ECPA members only.  The final webinar in the series will be a conversation with Christian retail leaders on The State of Christian Retail.

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PubU Online keynote webcasts to address "Publishing in a Time of Crisis"

ECPA’s virtual event, PubU Online, will be a month-long webinar series featuring more than 25 webinars – scheduled one per day at 10 am central – in publishing training tracks.  In addition to live sessions, master classes, and Zoom meet-ups, keynote sessions will be presented by gifted speakers and experts DR. THEON HILL and NPD’s KRISTEN MCLEAN with an emphasis on “Publishing in a Time of Crisis.”

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ECPA selects judges for the 2020 Top Shelf Book Cover Award program

Each year, a prestigious team of designers in publishing is recruited to review the industry’s submissions to the Top Shelf Book Cover Award program. We are pleased to introduce this year’s program judges, renown industry designers Becca Wildsmith, Matt Lehman, and Micah Kandros.

Read more on their bios and design work.

 

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  ECPA members are invited to submit their best book cover designs to the program by August 15.  Nominations are open to Bibles and books published between June 2019 to August 2020.  Winners will be announced during the closing session of ECPA PubU Online on October 1st via webcast.

Submission and program information at TopShelfAward.org.

New Growth offers bundle pricing for Shai Linne’s “God Made Me and You”

We believe the message of “God Made Me and You” is so important that we’ve created this special paperback edition to make the book available to as many children as possible. Churches, schools, and individuals who are also passionate about teaching children about God’s design for diversity can buy 10 and 20 packs to give copies to all of the children in their classes or neighborhoods.

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Bible Gateway interviews Adam Dooley, author of “Hope When Life Unravels”

What are the upside-down yet encouraging truths of the book of Job and other key Bible passages that remind us of the ways God is present in our pain? Why does God allow suffering? And why does God seem to go silent when we’re in pain? How does a pastor work through his faith in the gut-wrenching three-year struggle his family endured with his son’s cancer? Bible Gateway interviewed Adam Dooley (@adambdooley) about his book, “Hope When Life Unravels: Finding God When It Hurts” (Zondervan, 2020).

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Jesus Calling podcast features TBN host Cynthia Garrett, author of “I Choose Victory”

Host of The Sessions with Cynthia Garrett on TBN, Cynthia recently joined the Jesus Calling podcast to share her firsthand experience of the emptiness that occurs when love isn’t at the core of our relationships with others, laying out ways we can learn to love others the way God loves us. Garrett’s book, “I Choose Victory: Moving from Victim to Victor” is available from Salem Books.

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