The various modes of worship which prevailed… were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

So this week I have had to deal with Christian publishers who: Read more about More reasons why Wide Margin exists

Prouser, Ora Horn, Esau’s Blessing: How the Bible embraces those with Special Needs, Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2012. Read more about Book review: Esau's Blessing

I’ve been reading (and, let’s face it, publishing) a lot of books recently about discipleship. New discipleship programmes are a bit of a booming industry at the moment: Neil Cole, Frank Viola, Tony Dale, Tim Miller, Mike Breen, Alan Hirsh, the list goes on and on, and the premise of each of their books is essentially this: “What would it look like if the Early Church wrote a discipleship training manual? Read more about The Way of Life

OK, here’s a question. Over in my Wide Margin guise I have just published what I think is a wonderful book. It’s a discipleship and church planting manual from the house church in Japan, and I think it can and should benefit quite a wide audience. I’ve tried a number of ways to promote it so far, but I’m sure there’s more I can be doing, so I want to try asking the audience: Read more about Great book, but how to spread the word?

I promise not to spam you mercilessly with Wide Margin stuff, but I’m excited today because a parcel of fifty copies of Christians and Catastrophe arrived at my doorstep. To celebrate, here are a few choice quotes.

For the past few months I’ve been quietly setting up a publishing company, Wide Margin. We’ve got one book about to hit the shelves, one more in production, and two more in the pipeline after that. It’s been fun. More soon, but I wanted to get a link out there. Read more about Time to go public

I said I had no plans to write another book, but a few days back I had a dream - literally, a dream - about a book called “Holy Food”. It was a book about theological and spiritual aspects of food interspersed with some relevant recipes. I mentioned it to Hen and she thought it was a great idea - she was quite impacted by the Redcliffe Food Futures Day, and our eating patterns have changed as a result of that - so I’ll probably work on it from the end of the summer. Read more about I need your help with Holy Food

I was thinking just yesterday about the whole topic of errata in publishing, and then one appeared in my email for me to deal with. There’s a whole page of errata for my latest book, and occasionally I get emails from my publisher telling me about new problems that people have found in the book. Some of them aren’t errors at all; some of them are minor typos and mistakes; some are suggested improvements, how I could have done things better; some of them are major problems, either where my understanding was wrong or where the topic that I was writing about has changed under me and what I’ve said no longer applies. But the point is that anyone can submit errors and suggestions, I can interact with them, and everyone can see the results.

It got me thinking that I’d like to see this extended to, say, Christian publishing as well as technical publishing. I realise this morning that I think I will see that, and it’s part of a wider shift in culture. Read more about Errata, monologue and dialogue

I don’t have anything to say here yet, I just want to reserve what I think would be an excellent book title. Read more about Un-Methodism: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Christianity