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David Crumm is founding Editor of Front Edge Publishing. Nationally, he is known as a veteran journalist—a top writer and editor—with experience both in the U.S. and overseas. He is based in Canton, Michigan, where he also serves as Editor of Read the Spirit online magazine. His columns on trends in media appear twice a month on our Front Edge Publishing website.
After a long career as one of the nation’s top journalists, Bill continues to adapt to innovative forms of media—including a public book launch in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic. Bill worked with the Kansas City Library, where he already had established a good working relationship as a presenter. …
JANUARY 1, 2021—Front Edge Publishing is pleased to announce an agreement to publish the final Introducing Christian Ethics lectures by Dr. David P. Gushee, who is known around the world as a leading Christian scholar and ethicist. Through decades of teaching Christian Ethics at Mercer University in Atlanta and Macon, …
We are celebrating the ongoing success of the book Changing Our Mind along with thousands of Dr. David Gushee’s readers who have found the book helpful in strengthening the love in their diverse families, congregations and communities. …
In the second of two columns about our timeless love for paper books, we report on what is surely the world’s most expensive gift-book offering for the holidays, a 3-volume set from Callaway Arts for the 2020 holiday shopping season. Callaway has a long history of touching off global buzz …
As surprising as this may seem, Americans are reading more books than ever before—and they’re preferring to read those books in traditional paper. It’s true. The vast majority of readers prefer ink-on-paper books. Editor David Crumm writes this week’s Front Edge Publishing column about our collective love affair with books. …
Over the years, our publishing house has encouraged authors to find comfortable ways to welcome readers online. Many authors choose to do that through resource-rich websites. Working with web designer Michael Thompson, two of our new authors are debuting such inviting and practical homes on the Internet. In this article, …
Front Edge Editor David Crumm announces our first author book-launch via streaming—quite appropriate for innovator Craig Lemasters, the author of our newest book Unstuck: How to Unlock and Activate the Wisdom of Others. …
In this memorial column to author and educator Linda Jarkey, David Crumm shares memories of her love of children and of world travel. Linda died at 71 after a struggle with cancer. Her legacy includes her creative work on the picture book “Sadie Sees Trouble.” …
Since our founding in 2007, our publishing house has intentionally developed a community of authors from many different faith and cultural traditions. This column, marking Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur 5781, highlights our Jewish authors. …
Susan Stitt reports on the many cancer-awareness milestones each year, provides a link to download a calendar of more than three dozens of those special “days,” “weeks” and “months”—and describes many books we publish that can help individuals, families and communities as they grapple with these treatable yet potentially deadly …