Texas / Syndication Cloud / July 07, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading ...

Christian fiction, and the book market behind and underneath bestsellers like This Present Darkness, played a significant role in structuring the evangelicalism we live in today.

While Christian fiction is clean fiction, not all clean fiction is Christian fiction, Tromp continues. “Christian books would be a clean read plus some kind of biblical content.

But the Christian fiction market has grown steadily over the past 10 years—especially e-books, the sales of which were up 7.9 percent in 2022, even as other Christian e-books struggled during ...

I’ve just edited a special issue of the academic journal Christianity & Literature devoted to “Literature of / about the Christian Right.” The issue’s authors are trying to get a handle on ...

Distinguishing features of Christian fiction include a biblical message woven into the plot, no cursing and no gratuitous violence. Sex, if it takes place at all, happens behind closed doors.

HarperCollins, which publishes Christian fiction under its Thomas Nelson and Zondervan imprints, is coming out in 2018 with The Heart Between Us by Lindsay Harrel (Thomas Nelson, Mar. 2018), and ...

“The difference between Christian nationalism and civil religion is Christian nationalism says this country was founded by our people for a people like us and it should stay that way,” said Perry.

DENVER — The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as ...