Good News Publishers
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Good News Publishers is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes and distributes gospel tracts. Good News Publishers is the parent company of Crossway Books, a publisher of evangelical Christian books. Good News/Crossway is headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois.
[edit] History
Good News Publishers was founded in 1938 by Christian printer Clyde Dennis and his wife, Muriel. They used their savings of $20 to print 40,000 gospel tracts that Clyde had written and designed. After six months, the ministry had grown to the point that Clyde and Muriel's spare bedroom could no longer serve as office, shipping room, and warehouse. Clyde quit his full-time job and dedicated his time to writing, designing, and publishing tracts and Christian literature. Muriel became secretary and shipping clerk and often found herself folding thousands of tracts by hand. Within five years, Good News Publishers was distributing more than 50 million tracts a year.
In 1979, Good News Publishers was expanded with the founding of a new book publishing division, Crossway Books. Crossway has published titles by Christian authors such as Francis Schaeffer, Texe W. Marrs, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John MacArthur, J. I. Packer, Charles Colson, Frank Peretti, Max Lucado, John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Mark Driscoll, Alistair Begg, Ellen Banks Elwell, and others.
In 1987, Crossway Books printed the controversial Dark Secrets of the New Age: Satan's Plan for a One World Religion by Texe Marrs in 1987, which became a #1 best seller, ranking #2,484,508 on Amazon.com. A follow-up book by Marrs, Mystery Mark of the New Age: Satan's Design for World Domination, was also printed by Crossway.[1]
Another widely popular book, Feminine Appeal, written by Carolyn Mahaney, was published by Good News and has since spurred the founding of a women's ministry at Covenant Life Church.
In 2001, Crossway Bibles published the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible.
[edit] Sources
- Where There Is a Vision (1988). Wheaton: Good News Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-89107-519-4.
- Good News Publishers. About Us from Good News Publishers' website. Retrieved January 9, 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ "Book Reviews". Christian Research Journal. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0052a.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-22.
