The flailing Christian bookstore industry reached code red status earlier this year when Family Christian Stores, touted as "the world's largest retailer of Christian-themed merchandise," declared ...

Faith2Soar, a "Christian Bookstore & More," has opened at a Fort Liberty Exchange mall in North Carolina. (Courtesy of Military Religious Freedom Foundation) This article has been updated to ...

DALLASTOWN, Pa. (RNS) — In a small Pennsylvania town, a beloved Christian bookstore hangs on, with an appeal to 'thinking' Christians and a personal touch.

Despite over 400 Christian bookstores closing in the last three years, there is a strong and growing audience for faith-based books. Independent bookstores that curate selections to the spiritual ...

There’s a balance you need to strike in the Christian bookstore business, explains Bill Lester, owner of the only such enterprise in the Farmington Valley. “It’s a curious combination; you ...

More than a third of Christian bookstores were closed for more than two months because of the pandemic. Sales in March, April, and May were down 60 to 80 percent from the previous year.

The former owners of a Christian bookstore in Oak Park could only guess why someone mailed them $2,000 and a note saying the money was restitution for stealing from them. “It must have been ...

Jones opened her business in Lawrenceville in 2021. During the pandemic, she saw that her neighborhood lacked a Christian bookstore, so she opened hers to provide a safe place for people.

Walk into the Logos Bookstore in Oak Park, Ill., and you’ll find Bibles, the “Left Behind” novels and a lot of other works you’d expect at a Christian shop. But go to the children’s ...

Running a Christian bookstore can seem like a business of hard years. It’s no secret the whole industry is struggling. In the last two decades, more than 5,200 evangelical bookstores have gone ...

In the 19 years that Teresa Hairston has published her magazine, GospelToday, she has never faced a major situation with Christian bookstores across the country that carry the publication.