Author and speaker Carol Kent was recently featured in the season premiere of WE TV's Secret Lives of Women. Her story was one of four spotlighted, starting Aug. 18, on the segment "Mothers of Murderers," which chronicled how her son, Jason, shot and killed his wife's ex-husband. Jason was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.

The one-hour episode featured Kent, her husband, Gene, and Jason. Kent, who wrote about her experience in When I Lay My Isaac Down, told The Tampa Tribune that she did the show to help other mothers and relatives of inmates.

"Most people live in a prison of their own making ... when a family member is incarcerated," she said. "When we begin to be real, that is the mostfreeing experience we can have."

NavPress has named Dave Dravecky’s Outreach of Hope ministry as a partner in the fight against breast cancer as part of a fall CBA channel-exclusive program only for Christian stores

Christian retailers can participate in The Message of Hope program in which customers who purchase a copy of The Message//REMIX Solo [Pink Edition] by Eugene H. Peterson are invited to sign bookplates to encourage cancer patients. The bookplates will be placed inside The Message of Hope booklets, which feature selected portions of The Message. Dravecky, a former MLB pitcher who survived career-ending bone cancer, will help distribute The Message of Hope to cancer patients and survivors.

“We are excited to be able to partner with NavPress in distributing The Message of Hope along with the handwritten notes on the bookplates to those suffering with serious illness,” he said. “We hope and pray the entire Message//REMIX Solo [Pink Edition] project will draw everyone it touches closer to the heart of God in the midst of their journey.”

NavPress, the publishing arm of the U.S.-based Navigators, has sold out of its first print run of The Message//REMIX: Solo [Pink Edition] and is headed back to press, one month before the devotional Bible’s scheduled street date.

To support research into finding a cure for breast cancer, NavPress is donating a portion of the proceeds from all sales of Solo [Pink Edition] to breast cancer research. The white-and-pink Bible by Eugene H. Peterson retails for $17.99 and releases Sept. 15 to coincide with October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“We are thrilled with this positive response to Solo [Pink Edition],” said NavPress President Mike Miller. “NavPress has been impacted in personal ways by breast cancer, so this cause is very important to us.”