About B&H Publishing Group

Long after a sermon ends, a book can remain on someone's nightstand. A Bible can follow them through decades of life. A theological resource can help a pastor understand a passage that he'll eventually teach to an entire congregation. B&H Publishing Group sees publishing through that kind of long-term lens. As the publishing arm of Lifeway Christian Resources, B&H creates Bible-centered books and resources designed to help people know God's Word and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Behind everything it publishes is a conviction captured in three words: Every Word Matters.

Publishing With a Purpose

B&H isn't simply interested in putting more Christian books on shelves.

It wants the words inside those books to matter.

That shapes how the publisher approaches authors and the ideas it chooses to develop.

A Christian living book should help someone think more faithfully about everyday life.

A resource written for pastors should strengthen the ministry happening inside local churches.

A children's book has an opportunity to introduce biblical truth during some of the most formative years of a person's life.

Different readers require different resources.

But the purpose connecting them remains remarkably consistent.

Create trustworthy content that points people toward Christ.

Putting Scripture at the Center

That commitment becomes especially visible in B&H's Bible publishing.

Through Holman Bible Publishers, B&H produces Bibles designed for people encountering Scripture in very different circumstances.

Some are opening the Bible for serious study.

Others are reading it devotionally each morning.

A teenager may be trying to understand Scripture for themselves for the first time.

The formats change because the readers do.

At the center of much of this work is the Christian Standard Bible, commonly known as the CSB.

Released in its current form in 2017 after a revision of the Holman Christian Standard Bible, the CSB was developed around a balance B&H calls Optimal Equivalence.

The goal is to remain faithful to the meaning of the Bible's original languages while communicating that meaning clearly in contemporary English.

In other words, accuracy shouldn't make Scripture unnecessarily difficult to read.

And readability shouldn't come at the expense of accuracy.

Books That Follow Christians Through Life

Of course, discipleship doesn't happen only while someone is reading the biblical text itself.

Christians encounter questions as they grow.

What does faithful parenting look like?

How should a church function?

How do I understand a difficult doctrine?

How does the Gospel shape the way I respond to suffering?

B&H publishes authors who help readers work through questions like these from a biblical perspective.

That means its books can end up in very different places.

One might become part of someone's morning devotional routine.

Another becomes a resource a small group works through together.

A pastor might pull one from the shelf while preparing to teach.

The publishing house serves all of those readers while keeping the Church in view.

Taking Theology Seriously

Some questions require considerably more depth.

That's where B&H Academic enters the picture.

Its resources are developed especially for theological education while remaining connected to the life and mission of the Church.

Students can encounter deeper work in biblical studies and theology as they prepare for ministry or academic scholarship.

Pastors can engage resources that help them work carefully with Scripture.

Professors gain materials designed for the classroom.

The scholarship can become technical because the questions sometimes demand it.

But academic depth isn't treated as an end in itself.

B&H Academic wants rigorous scholarship to ultimately strengthen Christians and serve the Church.

Books for the Next Generation

The same publishing mission reaches children through B&H Kids.

A child's first encounters with biblical truth matter.

Stories can help them understand ideas that might otherwise feel abstract.

Beautiful illustrations can make them want to return to a book again and again.

And a resource shared between a parent and child can create conversations that continue after the book closes.

That's why children's publishing isn't separated from B&H's larger discipleship mission.

The reader may be younger.

The responsibility attached to the words is just as serious.

The Ministry Behind the Page

Christian publishing can be easy to overlook because much of the ministry happens after the publisher's work is finished.

An editor may never meet the person whose faith is strengthened by a book.

The team producing a study Bible won't sit beside most of the people who eventually underline its pages.

An author may never know that something they wrote helped a struggling Christian understand the Gospel more clearly.

But the words keep traveling.

A book moves from publisher to reader.

That reader carries an idea into their family.

A pastor carries biblical insight into a sermon.

A teacher brings what they've learned into a classroom.

And a Bible can become part of someone's relationship with God for the rest of their life.

That's why every word matters.

At the heart of B&H Publishing Group is the belief that Christian publishing is ultimately about more than producing books. Words shape what people believe, how they understand Scripture, and how they follow Jesus. By carefully stewarding Bibles and biblically faithful resources for children, everyday Christians, pastors, and scholars, B&H seeks to put truth into people's hands that can continue serving them—and the Church—for years after the first page is opened.