Women are more responsive to mobile alerts detailing discounts and more likely than men to shop in-store to save on shipping costs, according to recent data from fashion shopping app Snapette, a business unit of PriceGrabber. The survey revealed that mobile ad spending grew by 81% this year, with women aged 25-34 driving the highest click-through and conversation rates.

Shoppers of both genders are overwhelmingly visiting retail stores in response to viewing fashion products and promotions displayed on online platforms and mobile phones. Of those surveyed, 58% responded that seeing a product online has directly resulted in a visit to a fashion store. Additionally, 51% of shoppers reported that mobile phones play some part in their shopping experience.

The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to take up Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, a landmark case addressing the rights of business owners to operate their family companies without violating their deeply held religious convictions. 

The nation’s highest court accepted the federal government’s appeal of a June decision by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate to provide potentially life-terminating contraceptive drugs and devices in employee insurance plans places a substantial burden on the religious freedoms of Hobby Lobby and sister company Mardel Christian & Education Stores, which are solely owned by founder David Green and his family.

Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back has been a publishing success since its release in November 2010—and the title has just hit another milestone. On Nov. 24, the Thomas Nelson-published book by Todd Burpo with co-writer Lynn Vincent placed at No. 12 on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction list—its 156th consecutive week appearing on the best-seller list.

The No. 1 New York Times best-seller has also topped the USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, National Public Radio, CBA and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) best-seller lists in the three years since its release. More than 8 million copies of the book are in print.

Family-owned and -operated Goat Milk Stuff is bringing its goat milk products to the Christian market. Based in Scottsburg, Ind., the company is known for using the milk from the family’s goat herd to make soap, lip balm, lotions, bath fizzies and more.

Founder PJ Jonas and her husband, Jim Jonas, are parents to eight children, ages 6 to 16. The children are homeschooled, and each has his or her own age-appropriate role in the company, from milking goats to helping in the office. Considering their farming lifestyle, their company motto seems appropriate: “Work Hard. Get Dirty. Use Good Soap.”

Annie Tipton’s debut novel, Diary of a Real Payne: True Story (Barbour Publishing), has received Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Blue Ribbon Award for Best Children’s Book for 2013.

Book one in the “Diary of a Real Payne” series, True Story is tells the story of lovable 10-year-old Emma Jean (“E.J.”) Payne and her well-meant-but-often-misunderstood antics and adventures in Spooner, Wis. Church Camp Chaos, the second installment in this three-book series, is scheduled to release in March 2014.

GRAMMY and Dove Award winner Jason Crabb is headed to the “funny papers.” Writer and illustrator Guy Gilchrist will feature the Southern gospel vocalist in his daily Nancy comic strip Dec. 3.

Nancy is syndicated internationally in 80 countries, and viewed by 57 million readers around the world.

Mary C. Neal, M.D., author of the No. 1 New York Times best-seller To Heaven and Back (WaterBrook Press), will be featured in a CNN documentary Dec. 1. The documentary, also titled To Heaven and Back, explores Neal’s near-death experience at the center of her book.

Neal’s story will also be featured on the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family program Dec. 2.