About Grace & Truth Books

Grace & Truth Books was started in 1993 by Dennis & Naomi Gundersen and their four sons. In October 2022, the Gundersens retired and sold the business to Rick and Liz Smith, who moved operations to Conway, Arkansas, where they live with four of their sons (their five other children — four daughters and one son — live in North Carolina, the Smiths’ former home, along with two sons-in-law and four grandchildren).

Grace & Truth Books has made it our goal to be the one Christian bookshop where you can count on always finding solid, biblical content – every time, every book. We aim at the formation of a strong Christian character that makes eager disciples and worshipers of God. For over thirty years, we’ve published some of the finest character-building stories that have ever been in print, to prepare every member of your family to walk with God. Our Bible study and historical sections are likewise designed to equip you to be strong in His Word.

Many of the 100+ books we publish are rare collections from the 1800s of stories for children, with strong character-building themes. Others are by living authors committed to the same God-glorifying focus of strengthening a reader’s walk with God. Many of these treasures have been out of print for decades, and our readers in both the United States and thirty other nations have been delighted to enjoy them with their families.

Our company name comes directly from a phrase in the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verse 17: “Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.”