Christian Booksellers Association Convention

Rick Phillips

Earlier this month, I attended the annual Christian Booksellers' Association (CBA) in Atlanta to do a booksigning and interviews for my new book Jesus the Evangelist.  It was my first trip to CBA and I am extremely grateful to the excellent staff of Ligonier Ministries and Reformation Trust.  I see why it is a good thing for authors to go to CBA, because you really do get many opportunities to promote your book to distributers and media outlets.  I also had a very good time with the Ligonier folks and was honored to attend a dinner commemorating R. C. Sproul's EPCA Lifetime Achievement Award.

I remember the good old days when Mike Horton would have a staff member doing interviews and surveys at CBA, exposing the lamentable conditional of the evangelical movement and alarming us with the blasphemous t-shirts that were being sold.  Not having seen Mike or Shane at CBA, I thought I might give my own impressions: