Bookstore Manager partnership to help stores be 'more profitable, productive'

Bookstore Manager has announced a partnership with Kingdom Retail Solutions to provide exclusive training and consulting to Bookstore Manager users.

"This joint venture allows our users to gain more than just knowledge of the software," said Bookstore Manager President Randy Voorhees. "Robbie's experience in Christian Retail and the software will enable stores to become more profitable and product...

Mobile app will help attendees 'follow the buzz' at ICRS

CBA is encouraging attendees to digitally connect with its marquee summer event next week. The free ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) mobile app—for iPhones, iPads and Android devices—will be available during the event, set for June 23-26 at the America's Center Convention Complex in St. Louis.

The app will allow users to keep up with ICRS updates; view information from more than 250 exhib...

Animated musical celebrating Jesus' birth takes 'Broadway approach'

Participants at next week's International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) will hear about a new animated musical celebrating the birth of Jesus—promoted by filmmakers as "a faithful adaptation of the narrative from the Gospel of Luke in both story and song."

To be released on DVD by Glorious Films this fall, The Promise: The Birth of the Messiah "leverages optical motion technology to blend traditional ...

Kingstone's faith-based comics aims to 'make people's eyes pop'

Kingstone Media, a Leesburg, Fla.-based company that publishes faith-based comics and graphic novels, is seeking to "become the Marvel Comics" of the Christian product industry, with new titles such as Eternity by New York Times best-selling author Randy Alcorn.

"Comics are booming as well as Christian themes in entertainment," Kingstone CEO Art Ayris said. "Anywhere you want to look—TV and Internet sh...

Munce's ICRS scavenger hunt will be 'fun, easy and rewarding'

Forget Where's Waldo?, Munce Group is offering a supplier-inspired scavenger hunt during the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS), set for June 23-26 at the America's Center Convention Complex in St. Louis.

Available to all retailers, not just Munce-member stores, the Great Summer ICRS Scavenger Hunt 2013 is "fun, easy and rewarding," company officials said.

"We were encouraged by a few exhibi...

Tony and Lauren Dungy to share their love story in new Tyndale book

Tyndale Momentum, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, today announced that it will publish former NFL coach and NBC's Football Night in America analyst Tony Dungy's first marriage book early next year.

To be released Feb. 11, Uncommon Marriage: What We've Learned About Lasting Love and Overcoming Life's Obstacles Together will be written by Dungy and his wife, Lauren, with Nathan Whitaker. The ha...

High-wire artist, FaithWords author Nik Wallenda to cross Grand Canyon

High-wire artist and FaithWords author Nik Wallenda will seek to become the first person to walk over the Grand Canyon on a high wire this weekend.

A seventh-generation descendant of the legendary Great Wallendas, Wallenda's death-defying feat, Skywire Live , will be broadcast at 8 p.m. EST, Sunday, June 23, on the Discovery‎ Channel. At a height of 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, W...