About Thornbush Press
Old media ways are floundering. In a desperate bid for our attention and dollars, they’re riveting on what inflates fear, divides and conquers, or appeals to the lowest common denominator. And yet, they still demand all the marketing and most of the profit from creatives.
But the extraordinary technological changes of the past two decades have upended their stranglehold. Now anyone can have a TV channel on YouTube, do journalism on a blog, shape taste and style on social media—and, yes, publish books, independently and with integrity.
2020 might seem like the worst time to have launched a new venture. But it’s precisely now, when media and business are more frightened than ever and push that fear onto consumers, that we need fresh voices of hope, creativity, insight, and truthfulness. To quote an aphorism attributed to Martin Luther: “If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I’d plant an apple tree today.”
Here at Thornbush Press you’ll find—already now, and more in the months and years to come—theology across genres, memoirs of grace, doctrinal poetry, novels of mystagogical realism, and curated catechesis.
Meet the Founder
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is the founder of Thornbush Press. She’s a theologian, pastor, podcaster, writer, editor, ecumenist, and intellectual entrepreneur.
Sarah holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She loves to feed people with both the gospel and food—hence her long-running e-newsletter, Theology & a Recipe.
From 2007 to 2018 she served as the editor of Lutheran Forum, an independent theological quarterly. She worked from 2008 to 2016 at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, specializing in Lutheran dialogue with Eastern Orthodoxy and Pentecostalism, and continued as Visiting Professor through 2024.
Sarah’s theology podcast, Queen of the Sciences, addresses all kinds of topics pertaining to the Christian faith, from the practical to the wildly speculative, in conversation with her dad, Paul R. Hinlicky.
She also writes fiction, some of which is published right here by Thornbush Press, with new stories appearing on her Substack, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories.
After seven years as Pastor of the English Ministry at Tokyo Lutheran Church, Sarah now serves as Pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in York, Pennsylvania. She continues to be an avid taker of walks, lover of stories, and maker of delicious foods.