Canon Press is a Christian publishing house in

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. It was founded by Doug Wilson in 1988 as a literature ministry of his Christ Church. It has published more than 100 books by Wilson and his family members. Canon Press was sold in 2012 and continues to operate as a private company owned by Aaron Rench and N. D. Wilson. Two books published by Canon Press were found to contain significant portions of uncited work by other authors and were subsequently retracted and remaindered: ''Southern Slavery As It Was'' (1996), co-authored by Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins and ''A Justice Primer'' (2015), co-authored by Doug Wilson and Randy Booth. In 2021, the company said that its opposition to

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and

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restrictions allowed its workforce to be "free to work", and that it had tripled in size since 2019. As a marketing initiative, Canon Press put up billboards across the United States in 2023 with the words "Christ is Lord" in bold white letters on a black background, along with a

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. The campaign was a promotion for Doug Wilson's book ''Mere Christendom'', which one theology professor said promotes

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Canon Press publishes books and teaching materials to support the classical Christian education movement through its Logos Press imprint, inspired by the success of the

Logos School Logos School is a private, classical Christian school in Moscow, Idaho. Logos School is one of the first Classical Christian schools in the modern movement. Its teaching approach is discussed in the book ''Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning''. ...

Notable books

* '' The Shape of Sola Scriptura'' by Keith Mathison (2001) * '' The Case for Christian Nationalism'' by Stephen Wolfe (2022) ;Canonball Books imprint * '' The Silent Bells'' by N. D. Wilson (2020)

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