The Beyond Audacious Tyndale House

The beginnings of Tyndale House were audacious -- even beyond audacious. The start of the publishing firm was so implausible, it's success springing from a kind of obviously crazy idea, and yet it has been so successful, it calls for some sort of explanation.

The Christian publishing house is, today,  the third largest Christian publisher in the United States, with nearly 10 percent of the Christian market. Tyndale published such pivotal and important evangelical books as Left Behind, and Tim LaHaye non-fiction, James Dobson's bestseller, Dare to Discipline, and Josh McDowell's More than a Carpenter, as well as more recent successes such as the best-selling memoir of Indianapolis Colts' coach Tony Dungy, and an account of missionaries held hostage in the Philippine jungle, In the Presence of My Enemies, which sold 200,000 copies in hardcover.