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Articles and News Releases Concerning

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• From High Places to Heresy ("Tread with extreme caution and discernment in your local Christian bookstore. It is really hard to believe but universalism, gnosticism, relationalism, pantheism, self-atonement, defective Christology and skewed bibliology are all available at your Christian bookstore.") 1996 

• Trinkets or Truth? ("[John] Cully, a CBA member, regularly agitates for change among Christian retailers. Last September, he sent what he calls 'my latest letter' to CBA president Bill Anderson. In it, he complained that Christian retailers were selling products, books in particular, which were popular, but wouldn't pass biblical muster.") 7/1/00

• LifeWay Bookstores Pull Tommy Tenny's Books ("LifeWay, the Southern Baptist Convention owned bookstore chain, will no longer sell Tommy Tenney's The God Chasers or The God Catchers.") 2001

• Distributor shuts down 1/22/02

• LifeWay Stores will not carry TNIV, Draper says ("Controversy has surrounded the TNIV--billed as a 'gender-accurate' Bible--since its release.") 6/12/02    

• Internet Christian Bookstores: Haven for Non-Christian Materials 2/8/04 (Updated 4/20/07)

• Non-Christian Materials Promoted on Pro-Family Website 3/29/04

• Filtering Out Heresy Online (from the CBA MARKETPLACE magazine, the official publication of the Christian Booksellers Association) 6/2004

• True or False? How Can You Keep False Doctrine Off Your Store Shelves? (from the CBA MARKETPLACE magazine, the official publication of the Christian Booksellers Association) 6/2004

• Pro-Family Group Continues to Advertise, Promote Gay Authors 7/30/04

• Pro-Family Group Removes Pro-Gay Authors 7/30/04

• Christian bookstores fighting to preserve their niche 9/24/04

• Specialty retailers don't reap from Christian book boom ("Overall, some 231 stores that sold Christian merchandise closed last year, according to the Christian Booksellers Association.") 11/7/04

• When Churches Promote Books Instead of The Book 2005

• What's Going On In Bookstores? 2005

• Greg Johnson Promotes Pro-LDS Author's Book 5/13/05

• The Fashion of the Christ ("In the resulting shakeout, some 1,000 Christian bookstores have closed their doors in recent years. Still, the Christian Booksellers Assn.'s Anderson argues that the surviving Christian bookstores can still prosper. "General retailers want to cherrypick, while we offer the full orchard," he agues.") 5/23/05

• The Shelves of Shame Award 5/29/05

• Christianbook.com Compromises the Faith 6/4/05

• Interview with Mormon Author Robert Millet (Robert Millet is a dedicated, lifelong Mormon, whose book, A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, was published by Eerdmans Publishing) 6/2005

• Letters to Mardel Christian & Educational Supply (These letters to Jason Green, President of Mardel, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mormonism is in direct conflict with the Bible. There was no reply from Green, and Mardel continued to carry Robert Millet's book, A Different Jesus?) 6/28/05

• Christian Gift Company Divinity Boutique Seeks Acquisitions... ("One of the interesting parts of this story is that over 600 Christian bookstores have closed over the past 3 years and many suppliers the industry have been struggling with bad debt, closed stores, and increasing competition from larger companies.") 7/21/05

• CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE DISCLAIMER ON NON-CHRISTIAN BOOKS (Both walk-in and online Christian bookstores have a tremendous responsibility to provide solid, Bible-based materials to the body of Christ. While this article may seem humorous and sarcastic, the spiritual welfare of the believer is serious business. Share this with Christian bookstore owners, managers, and employees if they continue to advertise and promote non-Christian materials in their stores) 1/14/06

• The Almighty Dollar: Christian bookstores go bust after chains find religion 1/24/06 

• Spread The Word Online Christian Bookstore: Spreading More Than Just the 'Word' ("As long as any bookstore claims to be Christian, it should be Christian from front to rear, and everything in between.") 1/28/06

• Some Christian retailers left behind ("Christian retailers continue to struggle. Membership in the Christian Booksellers Association peaked at around 3,000 in the early 1990s, but now fewer than 2,300 stores belong to the association... In 2005, 337 Christian retailers closed, according to the association.") 1/28/06

• Christian Bookstores Seek Help From a Higher Margin 2/2/06

• Christian booksellers fear Wal-Mart ("At the annual convention of the Christian Booksellers Association, retailers continued to fret over competition from Wal-Mart and big bookstore chains.") 2/2/06

• A Great Compromise (A variety of non-Christian beliefs have infiltrated the body of Christ, including Christian bookstores) 2/13/06

• The Devil of Potter ("While most religious shops have avoided selling Harry Potter books for fear of exposing youth to black magic, some Christian bookstores are now singing a different tune.") 7/7/06

• THE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE INDUSTRY: Deception in the Databases ("Despite the fact that the Christian bookstore industry has seen its better days, it is slowly but surely dying.") 7/9/06

• What Ever Happened to Eerdmans Publishers? 8/3/06

• LifeWay Online Christian Bookstores 8/17/06

• Major Online Christian Bookstore Sets Precedence 8/19/06

• BEWARE OF 'CHRISTIAN' BOOKSTORES 9/16/06

• An Open Letter to Tim Wildmon 9/30/06

• Non-Christian Authors, Books Continue to Haunt the Christian Bookstore Industry 10/13/06

• American Family Association Misleads Supporters From the Lighthouse, 11/17/06

• American Family Association Promoting New Age, Heretical Authors and Books in Online Resource Center From the Lighthouse, 1/05/07

• AFA Removes "Mysticism" Category But Keeps Authors From the Lighthouse, 1/11/07

• An Open Rebuttal to Tim Wildmon's Response to His Critics 01/26/07

• BEWARE OF CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE HYPOCRISY - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews, 1/26/07

• Gay-Friendly Authors Populate SBC's LifeWay Site - Bob Allen, EthicsDaily.com, 1/30/07

• SHOULD CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORES OFFER ANYTHING FROM BIBLES TO PORN? - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews, 1/31/07

• LifeWay Sanitizes Online Catalog - Bob Allen, EthicsDaily.com, 1/31/07

• 'Christian' bookstore features X-rated flicks - Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily, 2/1/07

• X-rated Christian store's troubles traced to Amazon - Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily, 2/2/07

• The Berean Call Says AFA Did Not Do the Right Thing Regarding Bookstore Complaints - From the Lighthouse, 2/2/07

• THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET ABOUT MANY ONLINE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORES - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews, 2/6/07

• AFA's Online Bookstore Continues to Promote Emerging Church Authors and Books - 2/7/07

• OUR SURVEY SAID! - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews.com, 4/20/07

• Hidden from View: LifeWay Christian Bookstores Still Promoting 'Pro-Homosexual'Authors, Books -4/21/07

• CHURCH SWITCHERS ARE RESTLESS? - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews.com, 4/26/07

• GAY CLERGY, NEW AGE CHRISTIANS & BORN AGAIN PORNOGRAPHERS? - Paul Proctor, NewsWithViews.com, 5/9/07

• LifeWay Removes Brooke Boon's Book, Holy Yoga - 5/16/07

• Christian Research Service Alert! TBM BookManager, Ltd. 5/16/07

• Christian Booksellers Face Crisis of Faith - 7/15/07

• Excuses: Compromise in Disguise - 8/16/07

• Christian bookshops refuse to stock gay study bible - 12/19/07