Just In Time For Christmas

Stories and Ideas to Inspire, Challenge, and Transform

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Black Voices, Powerful Stories 

Give the Gift of Inspiration, Understanding, and Justice This Holiday Season

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Their Stories. Our Inspiration 

Give a Story Worth Remembering

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Award-Winning Reads, Extraordinary Voices


Celebrating Orbis Books' 2026 Honorees

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Publisher’s Reflections: Previous Newsletters by Robert Ellsberg

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  • November Publisher's Newsletter

    November Publisher's Newsletter

    NOVEMBER 2026   Dear Friends, Orbis Books was founded to attend to and amplify voices from the “margins and peripheries,” a perspective that gave rise to a theology and spirituality...

    November Publisher's Newsletter

    NOVEMBER 2026   Dear Friends, Orbis Books was founded to attend to and amplify voices from the “margins and peripheries,” a perspective that gave rise to a theology and spirituality...

  • October Publishers Newsletter

    October Publishers Newsletter

    Dear Friends, “I believe in my life story.”             So wrote Pope Francis in a personal “Creed” that he wrote on the day of his priestly ordination. In this prayer...

    October Publishers Newsletter

    Dear Friends, “I believe in my life story.”             So wrote Pope Francis in a personal “Creed” that he wrote on the day of his priestly ordination. In this prayer...

  • September Publisher's Newsletter

    September Publisher's Newsletter

    Dear Friends, Thirty years ago this month our friend and author Henri Nouwen, the Dutch priest and renowned spiritual writer, died suddenly while passing through Amsterdam on his way to...

    September Publisher's Newsletter

    Dear Friends, Thirty years ago this month our friend and author Henri Nouwen, the Dutch priest and renowned spiritual writer, died suddenly while passing through Amsterdam on his way to...

  • August Publishers Newsletter

    August Publishers Newsletter

    Dear Friends,              While the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, undoubtedly the world’s most popular saint, is observed on October 4among Franciscans, October 3,...

    August Publishers Newsletter

    Dear Friends,              While the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, undoubtedly the world’s most popular saint, is observed on October 4among Franciscans, October 3,...

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