Pastors have admitted to endorsing books they haven’t read. As a Christian publisher, I think change is needed

Controversy has ensued after an extract from Joshua Ryan Butler’s soon to be published book Beautiful Union was posted online. Widespread criticism of the article resulted in a number of Christian leaders pulling their endorsement of Butler’s book, with some admitting to have never read it in the first place. Thomas Creedy explains what took place

If you aren’t a part of ‘Christian Twitter’, then you might have missed the latest Twitter storm. As someone working in Christian publishing, while it was exciting to have normal people interested in what I do, it wasn’t necessarily on the terms I’d like.

To summarise, the US-based website The Gospel Coalition (TGC) ran an extract from Joshua Ryan Butler’s soon to be published book Beautiful Union. So far, so normal. Except this was a book about sex. And, according to people from across the theological spectrum, it wasn’t very good.

In fact the general consensus was this book was actually…