The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, has launched a new faith-based imprint, Convergent Books.

Convergent will “explore the contemporary faith experience for a broad range of Christians who are drawn to an open, inclusive and culturally engaged exploration of faith,” company officials said in November.  

Convergent will publish about eight to 10 books per year. Debuting in the fall, the imprint will launch with five titles, including Losing Your Faith, Finding Your Soul by David Anderson; and The Quaker Way by Philip Gulley. 

Based in Colorado Springs, Colo., the imprint will be headed by Stephen W. Cobb, president and publisher of Crown’s Christian imprints for the past 11 years.

“The audience for Convergent Books represents a growing movement of consumers,” he said. “These readers typically don’t see themselves as either liberal or conservative, evangelical or mainline. Yet they frame their spiritual journey in Christian terms, and they’re absolutely passionate about what theologian Brian McLaren has called, ‘the sacred endeavor of loving God and neighbor, stranger, alien, outsider, outcast and enemy.’ ”

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