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What Pastor Jonathon Bakker Really Wants for Clergy Appreciation Month
October is Clergy Appreciation Month, and to celebrate, we’ve invited two pastors active in ministry to share what they really want this year. (Hint: it’s not cookies.) Today we welcome Jonathon...
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Three More Great Books for Clergy Appreciation Month
This week, in honor of Clergy Appreciation Month in October, we’ve been featuring great books for pastors, as selected by real-life Reverends Brian Hedges and Jonathon Bakker. Today, we close out the...
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Have you voted today? Will you? Enter our Election Day drawing to win a free...
Throughout these great United States this Election Day, millions will head peacefully to the polls to exercise their democratic privilege and vote. It’s a good day to be an American — a very good day —...
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Election Day Drawing Winners
Yesterday was certainly exciting, wasn’t it? Not only did America’s voting citizens elect new leaders and reelect old ones, but nineteen of those voters also entered their names in our Election Day...
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Eerdmans at AAR/SBL 2012
This Saturday, the members of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature will come together in Chicago for their annual meetings, planned for November 17-20. Over four...
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The First Thanksgiving (excerpted from Gary D. Schmidt’s William Bradford:...
In this excerpt from his biography William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful Pilgrim, children’s author Gary D. Schmidt gives an account of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving. * * * Fall came in, with the...
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Two Psalms for Young Children
On this night, as so many young children and their families continue to experience feelings of sadness and anxiety in the aftermath of last week’s tragedy, we offer the following two “Psalms for Young...
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Two Books to Take to the Movies this Holiday Season
After the abundance (or, perhaps, overabundance) of family and friends, shopping and eating, music and church — all the noisy, crazy joy that is Christmas — many of us may find ourselves headed out to...
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“After Newtown: Protecting the Sacredness of Human Life” by David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is distinguished university professor of Christian ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. He is author of the new book The Sacredness of...
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Wishing Pope Benedict XVI Every Blessing in His Retirement
As most of our readers are probably already aware, Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation this morning, effective at the end of February. We have enjoyed our long publishing relationship with...
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Books for a Papal Conclave
Today is Pope Benedict XVI’s last day in office before his resignation takes effect and he slips off his signature red shoes for the last time. The next few weeks will be an uncertain time for the...
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“Reflections on the Election of the First Pope in Modern History from the...
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson served for 17 years as General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America and continues to play an active role in ecumenical organizations. He is author of Unexpected...
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“Following Francis in the Gospel Life” by Lawrence S. Cunningham
In the days following Pope Francis’s election, we invited three Eerdmans authors to share their perspectives on the new pope. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson’s contribution, “Reflections on the Election of...
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“Thank God for Pope Francis” by Robert J. Spitzer, SJ
In the days following Pope Francis’s election, we invited three Eerdmans authors to share their perspectives on the new pope. Articles by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (“Reflections on the Election of the...
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Enter to Win Two Award-Winning International Children’s Books from Eerdmans
Have you heard? May 13-19 is Children’s Book Week! Established in 1919, this “annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading” is the longest-running national literacy initiative in...
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EBYR at ALA 2013
The entire staff of Eerdmans Books for young readers — Anita Eerdmans, Kathleen Merz, Gayle Brown, and Abbie Roberts, together with publicist Ingrid Wolf — will be in Chicago this weekend for the...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Gerald R. Ford
If Grand Rapids had a favorite president, it would likely be the late Gerald R. Ford Jr. With an airport, a freeway, a museum, and more named for the nation’s thirty-eighth commander-in-chief, it’s...
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“Francis and the Seagull” (Excerpt from Michel Cool’s Francis, a New World Pope)
Michel Cool is a French journalist who specializes in religious affairs. In the following excerpts from his new book Francis, a New World Pope, he describes Francis’s first minutes as pope and a few of...
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“SOS for Arab Christians in Egypt and Syria” by Rupert Shortt
Rupert Shortt is religion editor for The Times Literary Supplement and author of the new book Christianophobia: A Faith under Attack. * * * The encounter was revealing. Trapped in traffic recently, I...
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Eerdmans at AAR/SBL 2013
A large delegation of Eerdfolks — including editor in chief Jon Pott, senior editor Allen Myers, vice president of marketing Anita Eerdmans, and others — will be traveling to Baltimore, Maryland, this...
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