Philip Yancey is not any stranger to The Evangelical Christian Publishers Affiliation’s Awards Celebration held throughout their annual Management Summit. The writer has been honored quite a few instances for gross sales within the tens of millions and unflinching prose. On Might 9, Yancey reached the highest, the Pinnacle Award for an writer’s affect on the Church and society, and Luci Shaw — editor, poet, and co-founder of Harold Shaw Publishers — was offered with the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award. The ECPA cited her ‘progressive, influential and enduring” contributions, elevating the bar for “literary excellence in Christian publishing.”
In naming Yancey, the ECPA cited his 12 Gold Medallion E-book Awards titles that exceeded 500,000 copies in gross sales, a Christian E-book Award for Grace Notes in 2010, and two E-book of the 12 months Awards for The Jesus I By no means Knew in 1996, and What’s So Superb About Grace in 1998. ECPA president Jeff Crosby praised Yancey for many years of writing with “honesty, piercing questions, and resilient hopefulness” in a string of titles together with Disappointment with God, The Query That By no means Ends, Soul Survivor and, most lately, the memoir The place the Gentle Fell.
This yr is the twenty fifth anniversary of his first ebook, The place Is God When It Hurts (Zondervan), on dwelling with out anger or worry within the face of bodily, emotional, or non secular ache. The ebook has been up to date by means of the years as points have arisen. In a brand new version this fall, Yancey, who often shares his personal experiences, doubts, and struggles in his works, might add a brand new perspective — coping with his current analysis of Parkinson’s.
Yancey, who’s 73, informed PW, “My future is filled with query marks, and I’m not unduly anxious. I’ve wonderful medical care and assist from pals. I belief a very good and loving God who usually chooses to disclose these qualities by means of his followers on earth. I’ve written many phrases on struggling and now am being known as to place them into apply. Might I be a devoted steward of this newest chapter.”
In the meantime, he is on to writing his twenty sixth ebook — co-authoring What Went Unsuitable: Russia’s U-Flip and the Path to Ukraine (Wipf and Inventory Publishing, late fall) with John Bernbaum, founding father of the Moscow American Christian College, lately shuttered by Vladimir Putin. They’re exploring “what occurred to show Russia from a westward-looking freedom-loving society to a closed hostile society,” Yancey mentioned.
Ninety-four-year-old Luci Shaw’s lengthy profession as a author, editor, and writer has come practically full circle with the Lifetime Achievement Profession named for Taylor, the late founder and president of Tyndale Home publishers. She was the English stylist who labored with him on his paraphrase of the New Testomony Epistles, Dwelling Letters, revealed in 1963. She and her husband launched Harold Shaw Publishers in 1967 (an imprint of WaterBrook since 2000) along with her as v-p and senior editor and later president after her husband’s dying in 1966.
She is a part of the Chrysostom Society of Christian poets, essayists, novelists, and nonfiction writers. The ECPA announcement cited her ongoing work as an editor for literary publications and her “quite a few works of poetry, essays, kids’s books, and nonfiction together with Writing the River, Sea Glass, Water My Soul, God within the Darkish, Angels All over the place, The Inexperienced Earth, and The Crime of Dwelling Cautiously. Iron Pen, an imprint of Paraclete, will launch her newest poetry assortment Reversing Entropy in April 2024. Paraclete poetry editor Lillian Miao informed PW the ebook presents “grace-filled expressions of all of the presents her life has held.” Tuesday night on the Awards Celebration she learn a poem she composed for the event.
The Christian E-book of the 12 months
Jennie Allen’s bestseller, Discover Your Individuals: Constructing Deep Neighborhood in a Lonely World, an brisk roadmap to creating deep, wholesome, joyful relationships, has been named Christian E-book of the 12 months by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Affiliation. It was among the many 13 classes of successful titles in Christian publishing introduced Tuesday on the ECPA’s annual Management Convention in Nashville.
Discover Your Individuals is the second ebook in a run of blockbuster titles by Allen for WaterBrook, a Penguin Random Home imprint. It debuted in February 2022 on the high of the Publishers Weekly bestseller record, reflecting the worldwide reputation of Allen, a Bible instructor and founding father of the IF: Gathering ladies’s conferences which might be streamed to 40 international locations. Along with Get Out of Your Head, revealed in 2020, the 2 books have bought practically one million copies in keeping with Circana BookScan. Laura Barker, v-p and writer for WaterBrook and Multnomah, informed PW, that what retains readers “coming again ebook after ebook is that she delivers tangible, related, Bible-infused options to the tensions all of us face in strolling out our religion in each day life.” In 2013, she obtained the Christian E-book Award for New Writer of the 12 months for Something (Thomas Nelson).
The 2023 New Writer of the 12 months honor went to graphic designer and first-time writer Jennifer Tucker for Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiousness, Focus Your Thoughts, and Renew Your Soul from Thomas Nelson Reward, an illustrated information to the apply of prayers centered on Christ and Scripture.
The Christian Dwelling winner was James Ok.A. Smith’s How one can Inhabit Time: Understanding the Previous, Dealing with the Future, Dwelling Faithfully Now (Brazos Press/Baker Publishing Group). The philosophy professor informed PW that reconciling religion and historical past is about “discovering the house to hit the pause button on our immersion on this frenetic current, and to ponder and reckon with the place we’ve come from and what we’re known as to do.”
Tim Challies’ Seasons of Sorrow: The Ache of Loss and the Consolation of God (Zondervan Reflective) received within the Biography & Memoir class. Challies, a pastor, writer, and blogger, writes about dwelling in Christian hope after the sudden dying of his son, Nick, in 2020.
There was a tie for the highest honor within the Youngsters’s class. Sharing the honors have been The Largest Story Bible Storybook, (Crossway) by pastor and author Kevin DeYoung with illustrations by Don Clark, and Our God is Greater Than That! (Finish Sport Press) by Michelle Medlock Adams and Eva Marie Everson, each prolific authors of scores of books, with illustrations by Anna Jones.
In Bible Examine, the win went to Bible instructor, speaker, and writer Nancy Guthrie for Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the E-book of Revelation (Crossway). Based on the writer, she “takes the worry, intimidation, and confusion away from finding out Revelation” and helps readers make sense of its “distinctive apocalyptic symbolism, visible imagery, and Previous Testomony allusions.”
For a full record of the winners, click on right here.
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