What does For The City promise? Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter have planted churches in the heart of two US cities. In 180 pages they seek to ‘shed light on what a healthy church looks like, [and] share from our experiences as church planters how to pursue the goal of healthy, God-honoring churches in cities …

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News report on the CNN religion blog about the buyout of Thomas Nelson by HarperCollins, who already own the Zondervan publishing imprint. HarperCollins is owned by News Corporation, which means that Rupert Murdoch now owns the two largest US Christian publishing names and dominates the evangelical Christian publishing world. Excerpted from the article: Publisher HarperCollins …

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Having linked to a conversation between Trevin Wax and Winfield Bevins, author of Creed: Connect to the Basic Essentials of Historic Christian Faith, and Derek Vreeland, author of Primal Credo: Your Entrance into the Apostles’ Creed, I was happy to read on ebooks that Bevins’ book is currently available as a free Kindle download on Amazon. …

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