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Max Lucado receives the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award Honoring more than 35 years of publishing with more than 145 million products in print that are distributed in 80 countries and translated into 45 languages worldwide NASHVILLE,  Tenn. — Bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado was awarded the 2021 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Pinnacle Award today for the outstanding contribution of his writing, both to the publishing industry and to society at large.  Lucado is only th...

Christy Awards Add New Honor for Writers of Color By Ann Byle | Feb 22, 2021 The Evangelical Christian Publishing Association (ECPA) has created an Own Voice Award to honor Christian fiction writers of color as part of The Christy Award program. Own Voice will recognize books from authors whose topic, setting or characters are based on the author’s own experience as a person of color. The category is another in The Christy Award list of categories including Romance, Sus...

12 . 22 . 20 The Bible is America’s best-selling book, annually outpacing the top 20 best sellers combined. Yet a single Chinese company has a near monopoly on Bible printing, meaning that any rupture in the supply chain—say, from U.S. or Chinese government policies—would lead to a Bible shortage in America. This poses a serious threat both to American Christians’ fundamental religious liberty rights and to national security.  More than 20 million Protestant and Catholic Bibles are pri...