For the last week or two, I’ve been tracking a developing story in Scotland where yet another company that publishes Christian material is facing the axe. The first I heard was when the Bookseller magazine covered stories north of the border where the Scotsman was reporting that The Saint Andrew Press was under threat from [...]
As a Curate, along with the rest of my mentor group of Curates, I’ve just finished reading David Bentley Hart’s 2009 book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I must admit that it’s not the sort of book that I would have naturally chosen to read if my mentor group had not [...]
If you aren’t one of the cognoscenti in the UK Christian publishing industry, you may not have thought much of the announcement last month that IBS-STL is up for sale. IBS-STL (International Bible Society and Send the Light who merged a few years ago) are not immediately apparent to the average Christian buyer of books. [...]
I am shamed by how long it has taken me to finish reading this book (I blame it all the Interregnum even though I’ve been reading it far longer than that *cough*) but, anyway, I have finally made it to the end of Tom Wright’s view of heaven, hell, life after death and all that [...]
This afternoon I attended the ‘Leaving do’ for all those who’ve been made redundant at Church House Publishing. I’d call it a ‘closing down’ party but, of course, the plan is that the publishing will continue under the new outsourcing arrangements so that’s not technically correct. It just felt like it… sort of. At the [...]
As I understand it from people inside CHP, the deal relating to the outsourcing of CHP’s publishing function is due to be signed today. It seems that General Synod won’t get a chance to have their say. While I’m aware of a couple of questions regarding CHP that have been submitted for the July Group [...]
I understand that the CEN has published a letter today from Peter Crumpler, Director of Communications for the Archbishops’ Council and my former boss’ boss, in response to my letter of last week. It reads: Sir, The Rev David Green is wrong to assert that the Archbishops’ Council’s proposed outsourcing of its publishing operation to [...]
Well, I think I’ve nearly done about all I can do to raise the issue with the wider Church of England of the proposed outsourcing of CHP. Last week, I wrote a letter to the Editor of the Church of England Newspaper and I sent the same letter to the Editor of the Church Times. [...]
If you are a member of General Synod or you know someone who is on General Synod, can I encourage you to point them to this website and these key questions relating to the outsourcing of much of the publishing services that CHP provide to the Archbishops’ Council. I’m not going to blog ad-infinitum about [...]
This is just a brief addendum to my two much longer posts about the future of CHP’s book and new media work respectively. With the publication of the Common Worship library between 2000 and 2007, there was tremendous potential of course for CHP to turn a nice tidy profit. Indeed, one of the reasons that [...]
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