In 1997, DeeAnne Gist caught the attention of a top New York literary agent. Though impressed by her book manuscript, a romance set in 16th-century Jamestown, Va., the agency felt it was too risky to ...

Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading mystery fiction can strengthen moral discernment and help believers ...

Evangelical novelists have embraced human grit and struggle. Getting readers to notice is its own struggle. Chris Jager started selling fiction at Baker Book House, one of the largest independent ...

Publishing novels devoid of profanity, violence, or explicit sexuality is still the modus operandi for Christian houses. Increasingly, however, content within the Christian fiction category is ...

Christian novel The Shack, written by first-time author William P. Young and privately published by two former pastors, has surprised many critics by taking the No. 1 spot on the New York Times ...

Why are so few significant novels produced within the evangelical tradition? Why is it increasingly difficult for the serious novelist to give expression to his view of life within the framework of ...

Historian and cultural commentator Daniel Silliman was in graduate school, looking at the history of evangelicalism and dissecting one of Christian fiction’s biggest selling works, the Left Behind ...

Stealing should make you angry. In this remarkable novel, Margaret Verble brings a mid-20th-century story to life through the power of relationships. Her harrowing tale makes it clear that violence ...

Christopher Douglas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Victoria provides funding as a ...

In the beginning, writing was just a dream in the mind of a CPA happily enjoying the perks of his field — travel, meeting famous people, learning all the while. But he had this lingering notion. It ...