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 ...

And other replies to the January/February issue. It’s long been clear that CT readers are also book readers, and we see this especially around our January/February Book Awards issue. This year, we saw ...

“This Present Darkness” and other bestsellers show us the history of evangelicalism—and how it could be different. Danyell didn’t like This Present Darkness. In fact, she hated it. The 1986 novel by ...

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 ...

Jannean Hedgespeth is an author of Christian children’s books and adult Christian fiction books. She joined us today along with her husband Lamont Hedgespeth for a “Finding Faith with Randy Ollis” ...

A Springfield author’s travel experiences have helped shape her latest novel in a continuing series she’s created. Nancy Flinchbaugh’s “Revelation in the Roots: Emerald Isle” is the third Christian ...