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Celebrating USA Today Woman of the Year honor with Najah Bazzy as Ramadan begins in 2023

As Ramadan begins in 2023, our publishing house team is celebrating with Muslim author Najah Bazzy, who has been named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year. This was especially timely because the news came as Ramadan is beginning for the world’s 2-billion Muslims—and one of Najah Bazzy’s many global humanitarian efforts is her book, […]

In ‘The Book of Nature,’ Barbara Mahany bedazzles us with the spiritual wonders in our own back yards

In The Book of Nature, Barbara Mahany dazzles readers with spiritual adventures we can discover among natural wonders in our own back yards.

Gustavo Parajón, This Peacemaker’s Story Is Circling the World

Prayers for the Carter Family THIS WEEK, everyone involved in the global effort to publish Healing the World: Gustavo Parajón, Public Health and Peacemaking Pioneer is sharing news about the timeliness of Parajón’s story. As his inspiring biography spreads around the world, the entire team of collaborators on this publishing project (from the UK to the US […]

Cynthia Vacca Davis’s ‘Intersexion’ explores the traumas and the hopes of Christian community

By DAVID CRUMM Editor of Read the Spirit magazine Yes, as the cover of Cynthia Vacca Davis’s memoir proclaims, “sex” is a major theme in this book. But if you read her title—Intersexion, A Story of Faith, Identity and Authenticity—all the way to the end, you’ll find another major theme of this book: Authenticy. And, […]

In Peter Wallace’s ‘Generous Beckoning,’ it’s God who is calling us.

By DAVID CRUMM Editor of ReadTheSpirit magazine Shhhhh! Can you hear it? See it? Feel it? God’s calling. Have you ever had such an experience? Or, have you sometimes wished that the chaos of life around you would calm to a point that you could take a deep breath and pause to listen, to watch, […]

Tamron Hall welcomes Bob Alper and the Laugh in Piece comics: ‘Guests who are very dear to my heart!’

Standup comic Bob Alper's Laugh in Peace shows continue to inspire Americans, including TV host Tamron Hall in this 9-minute video.

Dr. David Gushee on the Importance of ‘Introducing Christian Ethics’ in an era of ‘Global Killers’

To mark the one-year anniversary of Dr. David Gushee's timely book, 'Introducing Christian Ethics,' he sat down with Read The Spirit magazine Editor David Crumm for a Q&A about the most urgent issues the world is facing.

‘Excelsior!’ (Higher!) The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee’s Dream of a New Kind of Christian Comics

By PETER WALLACE Host of the Day1 radio network “Excelsior!” Every time I hear Stan Lee’s famous battle cry, which in Latin means ‘Higher!’ I wonder: “What If …?” Long-time Marvel fans will recognize that as a classic comics series from the 1970s in which Stan Lee invited fans to dream of what might have […]

Rachel Srubas’s new devotional explores the many ways God calls us toward compassion and community in Lent

. The challenge of Lent: Facing our fears, rather than surrendering to them. . By DAVID CRUMM Editor of Read the Spirit magazine What’s the most common thing Americans have given up in the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter? The tradition of Lent itself. Nationwide research on Americans’ Lenten practices shows that fewer than 1 […]

Shining Brightly with Howard Brown: A scientist and a cancer survivor reflect on a 34-year friendship and fighting cancer

The friendship of Dr. Eric Rubin and Howard Brown spans more than three decades and two successful battles with stage IV cancer. A new 6-minute short-film, just released this week, tells that inspiring story of good medicine, the power of hope and the potential of resilience in such a life-and-death struggle.