Jesus is Not on the Ticket by Rev. C. Welton Gaddy
New Year’s Reflections & Resolutions by Helene Atwan
200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1808 by Thomas
N. DeWolfe
Sundays in America: Christmas Eve in Bethlehem by Suzanne Strempek Shea
A Hajj for the Children of Mali by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
“Mission Accomplished”: O’Reilly Declares Victory in the
War on Christmas by Frederick Lane
The Email That Ended a Career: Intelligent Design and Texas Education by
Glenn Branch (over 3,000 visitors…!)
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Acts
of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Good Morning America/ABC TV; two segments featuring Eboo Patel and some
of the young people who work with the Interfaith Youth Core; January 17th
and 18th
Book TV/C-Span; rebroadcast of Patel’s interview; aired January 1st
The Diane Rehm Show/WAMU 88.5; rebroadcast of Eboo Patel’s interview;
aired December 25th
Our World,
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9
Los Angeles Times; interview forthcoming on January 6th
Poetry Foundation; Oliver appears seven times on the 2007 bestseller’s
list
Book Marks; review in Richard Labonte’s recent column; distributed
December 31st for pickup by GLBT newspapers and websites across the country.
“Not every at-risk youth escapes the physical and emotional devastation
of life on the streets, but Wright's portrait of a few who have is a tonic.”
Time Out New York; interview to run in January 17th issue
XY Magazine; interview forthcoming in February issue
Inheriting
the Trade,Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth,
$25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Madison–The Black Eagle/ WOL AM 1450, (Washington, DC) interview to
air January 4th; 8 a.m. EST; airs nationally on XM-169, The Power
Plain Secrets,
Joe Mackall, June 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1064-8
On Point/WBUR; rebroadcast of Mackall’s interview; December 24th and
31st
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0308-4
The New York Times Book Review; Khalidi reviews “American Crescent:
A Muslim Cleric on the Power of his Faith, the Struggle against Prejudice
and the Future of Islam and America” by Hassan Qazwin; to run in the
January 6th issue
A Dangerous Age: a new novel by Ellen Gilchrist; reference to Beacon
Press and Mary Oliver
“We should be publishing a poem a day,” she announced. I told
Jim that was what I wanted ten months ago and then I forgot about it. “I'll
just start doing it and see if he yells. I want to start with this one.
Mary Oliver is a famous poet. It's Beacon Press. Call an editor there and
see what they say.”
Beacon Press is a department of the