Dear Readers,
Marni, Karis and I are back from visiting her family in CA and introducing many of them to Karis. It was a great trip, but somewhat tiring as we took a red-eye back to MN last night.
You may recall I had written a cautionary post regarding Multnomah being sold. Well, it turns out rumors were true — Random House has picked up the Christian publishing company, just as the picked up Waterbrook Press a few years back. But they are apparently not being closed. Nevertheless, Tim Challies echoed my concern regarding the disturbing trend of secular companies having ownership over Christian media organizations (whether dedicated to books, as in the case of Multnomah and Waterbrook) or music (as in the case of the contemporary Christian music scene). An excellent discussion followed Challies’ post, including some interesting commentary from Christian musician Steve Camp.