In the past few days, a scammer masquerading as Chalice Press (how most people know us) or the Christian Board of Publication (our corporate name) sent fake invoices to people with no previous connection to our company. Obviously that didn’t...
Take a moment to look at the faces in the montage at the top of this blog page. Isn’t that reason enough to publish a book sharing these children’s expressions of wonder and amazement at God’s world? They’re adorable, right?...
We’ve all experienced that allure of something forbidden; after all, temptation is the subject of the first human story in the Bible. “Here’s something cool. Don’t touch it,” God tells Eve and Adam. A lot of good that did. As...
In the fall of 2020, several months into a pandemic none of us could see coming, Chalice Press was graced with a proposal called “Trauma Transformed.” The author, Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez, shared a heartbreaking, mesmerizing story of the sudden death of...
A few weeks ago I saw the cover of an upcoming book by Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary, called For Such a Time as This. Her book supposedly tells the story of her faith journey during her...
A few years ago, I had a hotel room that overlooked a single Dole freighter I assume was packed with canned tropical fruit docked in the port of San Diego. Once I realized there were literally hundreds of train containers...
Most people recognize conspicuous racism such as Confederate statues, Proud Boy rallies, or even sports-team nicknames, or some less obvious racism like the brand name of our pancake syrup or a poor choice of words on a hot mic. But...
The Advent devotional is designed to introduce or reconnect you with some spiritual ancestors who will give you a hug of encouragement or a nudge out of complacency. They know something about how to get ready for new life. I hope the can help you on the way.
If any Chalice Press book can be described as a labor of love, Jennifer Bailey’s To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope fits the bill, at every beautiful turn.
Books often evolve as they’re being written, in minor and major ways. To My Beloveds evolved in tragic and beautiful ways as Bailey’s life did what lives do, winding through sadness and loss and grief and anger and love and joy and hope.
