Publishing Houses
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Abingdon Press
In the early 1920s, Abingdon Press, an imprint of The United Methodist Publishing House, began publishing a wide array of high-caliber academic, professional, inspirational, and life-affirming religious literature to enrich church communities across the globe.
Active Parenting Publishers
Active Parenting Publishers, founded in 1980, delivers quality education programs for parents, children and teachers to schools, hospitals, social services organizations, churches and the corporate market.
The Alban Institute
The Alban Institute is an ecumenical, interfaith organization founded in 1974, which supports congregations through consulting services, research, book publishing, and educational seminars.
Alternatives
Alternatives is a non-profit organization that equips people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly and celebrate responsibly. Started in 1973 as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas, their focus is on encouraging celebrations that reflect conscientious ways of living.
Augsburg Fortress
The official Publishing House of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Boys Town Press
Boys Town Press is the publishing arm of Girls and Boys Town. Their books, videos, audiotapes, posters, booklets and other material provide useful information to parents, educators and professionals who work with youth and families.
Candle Press
Candle Press publishes inexpensive and easy to understand booklets for the busy family with young children. Their booklets help parents invite children into the awe and wonder of our faith.
Chalice Press
Chalice Press publishes books for readers who share an emphasis on unity in diversity and a critical/rational approach to biblical and theological matters.
Church Publishing
Church Publishing produces prayer books, hymnals, and other titles mandated by the Episcopal Church General Convention through the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music. In addition, they publish works on liturgy, music, homiletics, church history, liturgical theology, Anglican spirituality, contemporary global Anglicanism, and emerging issues, as well as recorded music and a growing list of software products and online services.
Cokesbury
Cokesbury is the retail division of The United Methodist Publishing House. A leading Christian retailer since 1789, Cokesbury offers products and services in these major areas: Books & Bibles, Sermon resources, Bible Study, Sunday School Curriculum, Music, Software, Supplies, downloadable products, online reference subscriptions available for online use, Vestments, and Close-out sale items.
Concordia Publishing House
Concordia Publishing House is the publisher of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
Cowley Publications
Cowley Publications is a ministry of the brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a monastic order in the Episcopal Church. Their mission is to provide books and resources for those seeking spiritual and theological formation.
Creative Communications for the Parish
Creative Communications for the Parish, is an ecumenical publishing company based in St. Louis since its founding in 1977. They produce publications for use in parishes, particularly products to enhance the liturgical worship and personal devotional life for tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic parishes annually.
Creative Teaching Press
Creative Teaching Press specializes in standards and research-based educational resources for teachers and parents of PreK-9 students.
EcuFilm
EcuFilm is the Media Distribution Ministry of United Methodist Communications. They provide an extensive selection of audio and visual materials for use in Sunday school programs, Bible studies and group discussions.
Eerdmans Publishing
Founded in 1911 and still independently owned, Eerdmans Publishing Company has long been known for publishing a wide range of religious books, from academic works in theology, biblical studies, religious history, and reference to popular titles in spirituality, social and cultural criticism, and literature.
Educational Ministries, Inc.
Educational Ministries, Inc. is a resource for practical, innovative, and creative resources for church educators and worship leaders.
Episcopal Books and Resources
Episcopal Books and Resources (formerly Episcopal Parish Services) distributes materials for ministry to congregations and dioceses across the country. The materials are developed in consultation with churches and dioceses or sourced by program units at the Episcopal Church Center in New York.
Episcopal Media Center
The Episcopal Media Center serves seekers, learners and leaders by combining the reach of mass media and the immediacy of targeted audio/visual resources to deliver the message of the Gospel. An independent, nonprofit organization.
Forward Movement Publications
Forward Movement Publications is an official agency of the national Episcopal Church. Since 1935 they have produced pamphlets, booklets, and books to encourage and nourish people as they grow in their lives of prayer and faith. They are best known for the popular quarterly devotional Forward Day by Day, providing daily meditations based on readings from the Bible appointed by the lectionaries.
GIA Publications
GIA Publications is a major publisher of sacred choral music, hymnals, sacred music recordings, music education materials, and other fine products.
Good Books
Specializes in books about Amish and Mennonite life: customs, cookbooks, quilts, children's stories, parents, family, fiction, biography, humor, gifts, meditations, and calendars.
Gospel Communications
Founded in 1950 as Gospel Films Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the word of God through communications media.
Group Publishing
Group Publishing offers books, curriculum, and other resources for ministry with children, youth, and adults.
Herald Press
Herald Press is the trade publishing division of Mennonite Publishing Network, a ministry of the Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA.
LeaderResources
LeaderResources is a publishing and consulting organization serving the Episcopal Church and beyond. Their resources are developed by congregations or dioceses and then shared throughout their network.
Liguori Publications
Liguori Publications is a community of religious priests, brothers, lay people, and contemplative nuns. Their ministry is to spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world through their publications.
Lillenas Publishing Company
Church music and worship resources for churches of all sizes.
Liturgical Press
Liturgical Press actively seeks to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ through various media and to deepen the faith and knowledge of a richly diverse Church.
Living the Good News
Living the Good News provides Lectionary-based curriculum and other program resources that support and respect the journeys of the Episcopal, Catholic and Lutheran communities.
Logos Productions
The mission of Logos Productions is to serve the ecumenical Christian community by providing biblically centered, culturally aware resources that equip and inspire lay and clergy for ministry in the church and beyond.
Loyola Press
Loyola Press publishes quality book, videos and other resources to help nurture a lived faith. They inspire individuals to be conscious of God's work in everyday life and to embrace this awareness through daily action.
Meriwether Publishing
Quality theater books and supplies for educational drama instruction and Christian theater ministries.
Morehouse Publishing
Morehouse Publishing publishes books on spirituality, liturgy and worship, prayer, the Bible, church history, theology, Christian education, marriage and family, church administration, lay and ordained ministry, homiletics, ethics and moral theology, contemporary social issues, stewardship, and women's issues.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the world's largest university press, and has an international reputation for the quality and diversity of its publishing program.
Paraclete Press
Paraclete Press is a Christian multimedia company - publishing books, videos, sheet music and music recordings - as well as a printing and video production house.
Paulist Press
Striving to stand at the intersection of faith and culture, Paulist Press is committed to publishing quality materials that: bring the good news of the Gospel to Catholics and people of other religious traditions; support dialogue and welcome good scholarship and religious wisdom from all sources across denominational boundaries; foster religious values and wholeness in society, especially through materials promoting healing, reconciliation, and personal growth.
The Pilgrim Press
The Pilgrim Press is a gift of the United Church of Christ for scholars and students, thoughtful laypersons, and church professionals. As an ecumenical endeavor, it strives to discern how God is disclosed in various Christian and world religions.
Presbyterian Publishing Corporation
The Presbyterian Publishing Company combines an emphasis on the mission and ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with a strategic focus on customer service and the employment of sound business practices. It is the parent company of Westminster John Knox Press and Geneva Press.
Prometheus Books
Prometheus has been a leader in publishing books and journals for the educational, scientific, professional, library, popular and consumer markets since 1969. Prometheus is dedicated to providing consumers the opportunity to read thoughtful and authoritative books in a wide variety of categories.
Resource Publications, Inc.
Resource Publications, Inc. is a leading producer of resources for professional and volunteer personnel in education, counseling, and ministry. They offer liturgical, catechetical, leadership and personal growth resources, plus alternative curricula for schools.
Saint Mary's Press
Saint Mary's Press is a contemporary expression of the Catholic Church's mission to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Lasallian mission to provide a human and Christian education for young people, including those who are economically deprived. Saint Mary's Press dates from 1943, when Brother Alphonsus Pluth, FSC, began publishing high school religion resources.
SPCK Publishing
The publishing branch of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge produces a broad range of Christian books. It includes prayer and worship resources, parish resources and stationery, as well as mission and missiology, academic works and educational texts and a large range of topics for the general reader. It aims to cover a diversity of Christian traditions from the evangelical to the Catholic, the conservative to the liberal. Offering spiritual and intellectual development, they hope to encourage responsible debate through these books, as Christians seek to understand the faith in response to the current issues in the Church and in the world.
St. Anthony Messenger Press
A Roman Catholic publisher, operating with the specific ecclesiastical approval of the Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk.
Tyndale House Publishers
Tyndale House seeks to minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through literature consistent with biblical principles.
United Church Press
United Church Press is one of the publishing imprints of Local Church Ministries, a covenanted ministry of the United Church of Christ. It publishes curriculum and approximately ten books per year. It also features resources from Northstone Publications, The Pilgrim Press, SPCK, and Wood Lake Books. These materials are focused primarily for clergy and laypersons in the United Church of Christ and the wider ecumenical community.
Vision Video
The best video and DVD selection of Christian and family movies and films at discount prices.
Weston Woods
Weston Woods is the principal innovator in the translation of picture books into the audiovisual media, and the pioneer of the multimedia approach to children's literature. Throughout its history, the philosophical underpinning of Weston Woods has been fidelity to the original.
Whitaker House
The mission of Whitaker House is to advance God's kingdom by publishing biblically based products that proclaim the power of the Gospel and minister to the spiritual needs of people around the world.
Whitcomb Associates, Inc.
Seeking to provide the finest educational products and services for the school and public library communities.
Willow Creek Association
Since 1992, the Willow Creek Association has been linking like-minded, action-oriented churches with each other and with strategic vision, training, and resources. The WCA works to equip Member Churches and others with the tools needed to build prevailing churches everywhere in the world.
Youth and Family Institute
The Youth & Family Institute is a faith-based non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen congregations and families to nurture faith, pass on faith, and live well in Christ. Their bookstore offers numerous books, DVDs and other educational resources which provide practical tools and ideas to help families and congregations nurture faith and mark faith milestones such as baptism, learning to pray, first communion, confirmation, getting a driver’s license, leaving home, marriage, and the death of a loved one.
Youth Specialties
For over 30 years Youth Specialties has worked alongside Christian youth workers of just about every denomination and youth-serving organization. They are here to help you, whether you're brand new to youth ministry or a veteran, whether you're a volunteer or a career youth pastor. Each year they serve more than 100,000 youth workers worldwide through our training seminars and conventions, resources, and on the Internet.
Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian communications company that provides resources for people of every age and in every stage of life as they seek a richer, more fervent, more enlightened relationship with Jesus Christ.
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