Cornerstone Press-Chicago is the publishing arm of Cornerstone magazine, a bi-annual journal of faith and culture which has been published since 1972. Since 1984, the magazine has sponsored the annual Cornerstone Festival in Central Illinois, where 20,000 people from around the world come together each year to experience the "Cornerstone" approach to culture and the arts in the setting of Christian community. Indeed, all of these entities are outreaches of Jesus People USA, (aka "JPUSA"), a Christian community based in the inner-city of Chicago, also founded in 1972. Nearly 500 people call JPUSA home, living and working together in community-owned businesses and reaching out to the neighborhood in local ministries which include a shelter and youth programs, and beyond the neighborhood in music, publishing, and other endeavors. (Since 1989, JPUSA has been a congregation of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a Chicago-based denomination.)

Though our worldview is Christian, we at Cornerstone Press-Chicago do not consider ourselves a "religious publisher". We are interested in publishing books of quality and integrity, fiction or non-fiction in the very broad range of catagories in which we are interested -- from social concerns to literature to popular culture. We are a small press and currently publish only two or three titles a year, though we'd love to increase that number in the future.