Panel Topics  The Climate for Christian Publishing.  Christian
publishing includes everything from the “Left Behind” series to
prize-winning novels, from devotional works to contemporary
theology. This panel of editors and publishers of Christian
writing will help writers and readers by exploring some of the
issues and challenges of the current publishing environment. 
The Climate for Religious Writers.  Does the religious posture
of one’s community and colleagues—the Lutheran college, the
private liberal arts college, the state university, the
community of independent writers—affect the tenor of a writer’s
work? Some writers whose work takes religious issues seriously
find it difficult to get published in a secular marketplace. How
can writers in the Lutheran tradition encourage and support each
other? How does a writer link personal belief with artistic
work? How might theology shape one’s writing?  This panel will
wrestle with these issues of the writer’s life, environment, and
vocation.  Fiction, Faith,