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Business coverage of religious publishing: bible and devotional market share, denominational subsidies, seminary and university press budgets, retail and church distribution channels, and typical sales for a theology title. Figures are sourced where disclosed. For publishers, institutions and readers following the trade.


What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible

Notre-Dame Opens a €130 Million Drive for Its Final Restoration Phase
The public body rebuilding the cathedral has priced its last program of works at €150 million, with about a fifth in hand and the rest sought from donors.


The Business Behind the Christy Awards
Christian fiction's top industry prize returns to Nashville in November — a reminder of how a niche publishing market keeps itself visible to itself.

Christie’s London Books and Manuscripts Sale Sets a Record
The Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale of July 8, 2026 realized £12.7 million, with a seven-hundred-year-old Arthurian romance leading the medieval lots.

How to Read a Stained Glass Window
Lead, paint and stain assembled into narrative bands and typological pairings — a reader’s guide to Gothic glazing from Chartres to Canterbury.

How Notre-Dame Commissioned Its New Stained Glass
The six windows destined for the cathedral’s southern aisle ran through an open call of more than one hundred artists, a jury, and a Reims workshop with four centuries of practice.

How to Look at an Icon
Gold that stands for light without casting shadows, space that opens toward the viewer, size that ranks holiness rather than distance — a short grammar of the panel.