Publishing House Resources

Augsburg Fortress

Augsburg Fortress Press is the publishing ministry of the ELCA.

Cokesbury

Retailer for Methodist, Presbyterian, and Epsicopal publishers but carries a wide variety of texts, church supplies, VBS, and robes and paraments.  Catalog available.  Store located in the Graceland shopping center in Columbus.  Very helpful people.

CSS Publishing

CSS was founded in 1970 by two Lutheran pastors, both alums of Hamma School of Theology at Wittenberg University.  Pr Wes Runk remains its president. It is based in Lima, Ohio. The company offers a wide range of material usually at a level that most congregations can use without trained facilitators.  Their prices are reasonable and sales happen often.

Their own description of themselves is: the leading Christian publisher of Christian Books, Lectionary Resources, Sermon Books, Sermon Resources, Worship Resources, Pastoral Resources, Children's Ministry Resources, Children's Sermons, and many other worship and pastoral resources to meet the needs of pastors and the global ministry.

The toll free number is : 1-800-537-103.

Westminster John Knox Press

Westminster John Knox Press (WJK) is the academic and trade imprint of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC). Books and resources published under the WJK imprint cover the spectrum of religious thought and represent the work of scholarly and popular authors of many different religious and theological affiliations. WJK publishes approximately 80 new books and other resources each year and manages a backlist of more than 1,800 titles that are sold throughout the world. Books published specifically for the PC (USA) are published under the Geneva Press imprint.

For nearly 170 years, WJK and its predecessors have served scholars, students, clergy, and general readers. Most of its publications are used in the training of seminarians, the dissemination of religious scholars' work, and the spiritual and ethical formation of clergy and laity.

WJK has published numerous works by world-renowned authors including William Barclay, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Brueggemann, Frederick Buechner, Brevard Childs, John Cobb, William Sloane Coffin, Marva Dawn, Craig Evans, Beverly Gaventa, Justo González, Serene Jones, David Kelsey, George Lindbeck, Tom Long, Dale Martin, Alister McGrath, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, Letty Russell, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Barbara Brown Taylor, Marjorie Thompson, Paul Tillich, Cornel West, Rowan Williams, Will Willimon, N. T. Wright, and many others.