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EERDMANS JAN 2025 THE LOGO The Logo A Monthly Newsletter from Eerdmans In This Issue January Releases Coming Next Month Charlie Peacock Book Event Join Nijay Gupta's Launch Team Recent Audiobook Releases Writing Religious Wrongs Event Interview with Carey Wallace Meet Rights Manager Tom DeVries • January Releases Click each cover to learn what makes each book unique. Book of the Month Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God by Jeff Mikels January 23, 2025 Evangelical Idolatry is both a confession and a call to repentance. Reflecting on his twenty-year pastoral ministry with candor and humility, Mikels acknowledges the ways he enabled parishioners to develop destructive loyalties to cultural and political idols. Buy Now The Discipline of Inspiration January 2 Prayers from the Cloud January 2 Knock at the Sky January 7 Christology in Early Christianity January 16 Biblical Interpretation and Doctrine in Early Christianity January 16 Writing and Rewriting the Gospels January 30 Now in Paperback! Christobiography January 2 The Beatitudes through the Ages January 30 • Coming Next Month Roots & Rhythm by Charlie Peacock February 4, 2025 Buy Now A beautifully crafted memoir unveiling the ancestral, musical, and spiritual roots of Grammy Award–winning music producer Charlie Peacock. "Charlie Peacock, a music artist of high order and deep experience, takes an unblinking, truthful, and, most of all, kind look at a long life in music."   —T Bone Burnett, Oscar and Grammy Award–winning music producer, recording artist, and composer Charlie Peacock's Book Launch Event Join Grammy Award–winning producer Charlie Peacock for an evening event at Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN, on February 4. Purchase your ticket below for this in-store conversation and book signing. Register Here • Join Nijay Gupta's Launch Team Have you pre-ordered a copy of The Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul's Theology by Nijay K. Gupta? If so, you are invited to join Nijay's launch team! Launch team members will receive an advance digital copy, an exclusive bonus essay that is not available anywhere else, and group video calls with Nijay to read and discuss the book. To join, please fill out the form below and provide proof of purchase. Join the Launch Team • Recent Audiobook Releases Buy Now Buy Now

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• Writing Religious Wrongs Event

Join Cait West, Dr. Sara Moslener, and Dawn Burns on February 13 for a multi-author event centered on processing religious/spiritual trauma, abuse, and pain through writing. This event will be held in person only at Grand Valley State University's Allendale campus and downtown Grand Rapids campus. The event is free but registration is required.

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• Interview with Carey Wallace

Meet Carey Wallace. Her book, The Discipline of Inspiration, is now available. Learn more about her hopes for the book on the Eerdword blog!

What led you to write The Discipline of Inspiration? The Discipline of Inspiration was born out of a vast survey of speech by artists on art: songwriters on songwriting, photographers on photography, dancers on dance. To my surprise, across genres and throughout time, there was an almost eerie agreement in how artists spoke about inspiration: as something that felt like it came from beyond them, that had a different perspective from their own, was wiser, stronger, and better than them—and might go on to some other person if they failed or refused to answer it. Whether they were religious or not, they almost invariably reached for religious language to describe inspiration, even if that came in the form of a denial: "It feels like a divine intrusion, but that's impossible."

Many artists actually attributed inspiration directly to God. I got curious about what it might mean if we accepted the testimony of these artists and explored the idea that God is the source of inspiration. Where would that take us? How would it help us understand God and the transcendent experiences we have around art, both when we create art, and when we confront it? That was the kernel of this book. How do you define inspiration? We tend to identify artists by talent: that is, we identify which kids find it easier to sing in tune or capture a likeness. Then we train them in technique: hours spent at the piano or the canvas, developing a skill at a craft. But talent and technique, even in great measure, don't mean much unless they're lit up by a third element, the thing that tells the writer what to write, and the singer how to sing: inspiration.

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• Meet Rights Manager Tom DeVries

Tom DeVries is the subsidiary rights manager at Eerdmans. Enjoy getting to know Tom!

Describe what you do at Eerdmans. That is a hard question to answer. I am responsible for all subsidiary rights, which means any use of the intellectual property outside of the traditional print or ebook formats. Those formats may include translations, co-editions, permissions, video, audio, electronic licensing, and even now the possibility of artificial intelligence. I also handle our contracting with authors and contributors. Finally, I answer questions from customers, publishers, authors, and others about the one-hundred-thirteen-year history of Eerdmans intellectual property.

What are you currently reading? I am currently reading the second edition of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann. I love reading history, usually related to the classical world, which is what I studied in college, but I am also deeply interested in historical periods and cultures that I am unfamiliar with as well, including the pre-Columbian Americas. As the resident historian at Eerdmans, what's your most fun fact about a book or the company you can share? The stories are endless, so it is hard coming up with only one. However, not many people know that in the mid-1990s, Eerdmans acquired a Spanish-language publisher from Argentina and for several years published Spanish-language titles directly under the imprint name, Nueva Creación. Personally, I was delighted to be the initial point of contact for an acquisition of a Seventh-Day Adventist history because I randomly sat next to one of the authors on an airplane ride to the AAR/SBL convention in San Diego. He saw me working on my laptop and struck up a conversation that lasted nearly two hours. Thankfully, this random happenstance led to Eerdmans contracting what will be the Adventist history book for the foreseeable future.

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