BorderStone Press

BorderStone Press is a limited liability publishing company located in the United States.

Recent works include publications by Michael Haykin, Terry Wilder, Joshua F. Drake and Dale Palmer, as well as reprints of classic works by G.K. Chesterton, Moses Maimonides and Edward Tuckerman Potter.

Company

Name

The company name is derived from the ancient prohibition against moving boundary markers, and its continuing mission is to seek truth in all things. See Proverbs 22:8, 23:10; Deuteronomy 27:17; 19:14."

Research Initiatives

In the Spring of 2011, BSP launched its "Research Israel" Project, a research initiative undertaken with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The first part of this project will be the documentation of NOBTS's Tel Gezer expedition in the June, 2011. BSP and NOBTS will work closely with the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority as well as the Israeli Antiquities Authority to explore an early Canaanite water shaft that first excavated by R.A. McAlister. BSP will publish the findings of this expedition in a volume due in the winter 2011/2012.

Unique publications

Black Sacred Rhetoric

In November 2010, BorderStone Press released Dr. Gregory M. Howard's volume Black Sacred Rhetoric, the Theology and Testimony of Religious Folk Talk surveying the rich rhetorical tradition of the African-American community through sacred rhetoric and Black Preaching. Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Chief of Staff for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote the foreword to the volume and states that: "Black Sacred Rhetoric is an invaluable addition to the cultural history of African Americans. Gregory Howard has made an inestimable contribution to understanding the resilience of the Black faith community... As a cultural historian, I welcome this creative and Seminal work..."

The Lost Sermons of Peter Grant

In 2010 BorderStone Press, LLC released a volume entitled The Lost Sermons of Scottish Baptist Peter Grant, which was edited by Terry Wilder, professor of New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This represents the first time that the sermons of Peter Grant, an 18th/19th Century pastor at Grantown Baptist Church, Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, have been published. Grant formed what became the largest Baptist congregation in the Gaelic-speaking Highlands, and was at the forefront of evangelism in the area.

Professor Michael D. McMullen stated that "We have relatively few extant records from the early life of Baptists in Scotland, and Wilder’s carefully presented collection of Grant’s writings makes a very valuable contribution to the little that is available. In this challenging volume, we have the powerful words of Peter Grant himself, some of which he preached to his people in the very midst of revival."

From the foreword by Scottish professor Donald Meek "Peter Grant, the poet, is thus well known, but Peter Grant, the preacher, is a relatively obscure figure, although his skills as an expositor have been remembered in Gaelic tradition, and his ability as a descriptive writer in English can be gauged from his reports to the Baptist Home Missionary Society. So far, however, we have not been privileged to sample the preaching style that proclaimed the Word of God, in both Gaelic and English, in the pulpit of Grantownon-Spey, and drew audiences from miles around. In this book, we are given a splendid opportunity to experience something of Peter Grant, the preacher, by means of his surviving sermons in English."

Little Flower

In 2011, BSP published Erin Rager's "Little Flower", illustrated by D. Ellen Kay. The work has been praised by David Dockery, President of Union University, Harry Smith, President and CEO of Schilling Enterprises in Memphis, Tennessee as well as numerous other scholars, teachers, musicians, and pastors.

Upcoming publications

The company is also committed to publishing the works of Eusebia, the journal of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the conference proceedings of the center. The first volume of the series will be 'The Dominion of the Cross': The Theology and Experience of the Seventeenth-Century English Baptist Community featuring chapters by scholars such as Tom Nettles, Malcolm Yarnell, Jason Duesing, James Renihan, Austin Walker, Larry Kreitzer, and Steve Weaver.