Non-Fiction
Scenes with My Son – Robert Hubbard
I don’t think I’ve sobbed so hard over a book before. Robert Hubbard’s Scenes with My Son is a touching, raw, reflective memoir of the life of Robert’s son, Auggie, who died from suicide at […]
Non-Fiction
Christy Award
This Dreamer (The Chronicles of the Marked #1) – Sara Watterson
Sara Watterson’s This Dreamer holds the distinction of being the first independently published novel to win a Christy Award. That alone is a huge accomplishment. While the big publishers have the right to just pay […]
Academic
Churches, Cultures, and Leadership – Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez
Churches, Cultures, and Leadership was originally published in 2011 by InterVarsity Press and authors Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martinez. The authors are both professors at Fuller Theological Seminary and have experience in cross-cultural […]
Academic
Just Discipleship – Michael Rhodes
Christian discipleship is commonly considered to be a personal spiritual practice. Discipleship means reading the Bible and perhaps memorizing parts of it. It means praying more and maybe writing in a journal. It means the […]
Non-Fiction
We Become What We Normalize – David Dark
We Become What We Normalize. That sentence—the title of David Dark’s latest think piece—is poignant and demands self-reflection. Not “we become what we do” or “we come what we think” but “we become what we […]
Non-Fiction
Centering Discipleship – EK Strawser
In seminary, there was this saying that 10% of the people do 90% of the work. In reality, that might be closed to 5/95. Now, volunteering and doing the work necessary to keep a church […]
Academic
Beyond Homelessness (15th Anniversary Edition) – Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh
Fifteen years ago, the Scottish Journal of Theology called Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement a “remarkable, important, and timely book.” This fifteenth anniversary edition remains remarkable, important, and—perhaps to our shame—even […]
Academic
Intergenerational Christian Formation (2nd Ed) – Holly Catterton Allen, Christine Lawton, and Cory L. Seibel
Small groups have always been the key to Christian discipleship. The Sunday morning service is a mostly collective celebration, but the emphasis in many mid-size to larger churches when it comes to discipleship is the […]
Academic
Breaking Bread – Alastair Stewart
Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities is one of those highly technical and precise works of history and theology that seemingly has little practical value to the majority of […]
Academic
Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate – Andrew J. Brown
The interpretation of the Creation narrative is one of the most contentious and divisive subjects within Christianity. Fundamentalist Young Earth Creationists (YEC) stand on one extreme of the platform, attempting to interpret every element of […]