Children's Books
Here & There – Thea Lu
My six-year-old is a world traveler. In the short time he’s been alive, we’ve lived in six houses in six different cities across three states and two countries and had holidays in even more. As […]
Publisher: Eerdmans
Children's Books
Home – Isabelle Simler
Home is the perfect example of using various media to make learning come to life. The art is absolutely stunning. Even with no text, only as a book of art, this would be a book […]
Children's Books
What Makes Us Human – Victor D.O. Santos and Anna Forlati
What Makes Us Human? At first this seems like a simple enough question, but ponder it long enough and that’s when things begin to get a bit tricky—particularly when speaking from a purely secular and […]
Children's Books
Water – Olga Fadeeva
Water. It’s the stuff of life. Following their previous book, Wind, Russian author and illustrator Olga Fadeeva takes young readers into an informative and engaging conversation about the liquid of life. Each two-page panel in […]
Non-Fiction
Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy – Cait West
This beautifully written memoir tells the author’s story of surviving Christian patriarchy, the Stay at Home Daughters movement, and her father’s emotional abuse. She directs her story both to people with similar backgrounds in the […]
Academic
Gospel Media – Nicholas Elder
How did we get the Bible? That’s a huge question and the answer is way more complicated than I went to the local Christian bookstore.” But even when we try to go deeper—to talk about […]
Non-Fiction
being here – Pádraig Ó Tuama
To understand being here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love you have to understand two things: liturgy and living in the moment. For me, this book was a personal journey on learning about both. I […]
Academic
Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China – Glen L. Thompson
In 2012, fresh out of seminary, I—a white man speaking zero Mandarin—took the position of youth pastor at a Chinese Church. At the time, I knew nothing about Chinese culture, little about Asian-American Christianity (did […]
Academic
Reviving the Ancient Faith: The Story of Churches of Christ in America – Richard T. Hughes and James L. Gorman
I grew up in the Church of Christ, but never really got into its history. The independent nature of the denomination (to the point some still wince at it being called that) means that the […]
Non-Fiction
A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder – John J. Fry
Little House on the Prairie remains a cultural phenomenon ninety years after their publication and fifty years after the popular television show loosely based on the books. Over sixty million copies have been sold and […]