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Christianity Today’s 2024 Book AwardsOur picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
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God Thwarted the Tower of Babel. But Its Spirit Lives On.From the builders of Genesis 11 to the architects of the modern world, we've forgotten who makes our name great.
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Metaphors Have a Power That’s More Than MetaphoricalJoy Clarkson peels back the veil of overfamiliarity from commonplace expressions and images.
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Single Christians Have Common Needs—the Same Needs All Christians HaveAnna Broadway’s survey of global singleness challenges a marriage status hierarchy within the church.
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Your Politics May Be Less Bible-Based than You ThinkPreston Sprinkle’s Exiles is a bracing call to return to Scripture, but some of his specific political applications are dubious.
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Don’t Overexpose Kids to Mental Health Experts. Or Rule Them Out Completely.Abigail Shrier’s critique of childhood therapy mixes a needful corrective with ideological hyperbole.
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‘Dune’ Centers Islamic Imagery. These Muslim-World Novels Center Christ.Drawing from their long experience in the Islamic world, evangelical novelists pen fiction to help Muslims and Americans better see Jesus.
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‘Hell Is a World Without You’ Revisits Early 2000s Youth GroupJournalist Jason Kirk discusses his new novel, turn-of-the-century evangelicalism, and deconstruction.
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God Whispers to a Restless and Grief-Stricken HeartAn excerpt on doubt, despair, and restoration from Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found.简体中文繁體中文
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Gender Difference Is Real, but Too Complex to Spell Out All the SpecificsA theologian articulates an Augustinian alternative to the reigning perspectives on nature and culture.
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The Quest for a Good Children’s BibleA children’s ministry veteran explains where kids’ Bibles tend to go wrong—and highlights a few that get it right.
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The Bible Was Written to Be Heard and Spoken to Be ReadGod’s Word has oral and textual dimensions, and we shouldn’t pit them against one another.
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Can Christian Colleges Make the Grade?An experienced evangelical educator sees challenges ahead—but opportunities too.
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Five Books to Encourage Single ParentsChosen by Anna Meade Harris, author of ‘God’s Grace for Every Family: Biblical Encouragement for Single Parent Families and the Churches That Seek to Love Them Well.’
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My Students Are Reading John Mark Comer, and Now I Know WhyThe popular pastor’s latest works inhabit a fruitful tension between inheriting church tradition and rebuilding it for today’s world.
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The Data-Backed Case for MarriageBrad Wilcox’s Get Married debunks misguided conventional wisdom and offers both challenge and hope to Christian singles.
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The Cross Is Poetically Profound. But Prose Can Help Us See It Clearly.Brian Zahnd’s meditation on cruciformity is theologically rich, but sometimes theologically risky.
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Taking Care of a Grateful FaithAn excerpt on sanctification and conceit from theologian Cornelius Plantinga’s new book, Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks Is the Key to Our Well-Being.
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David Brooks: We Change People for the Better by Knowing Them More FullyThe New York Times columnist says extraordinary things happen—both personally and socially—when we pay attention to others.
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Truth from PowerDavid E. Fitch’s Reckoning with Power offers Christians a purer model of power but misreads how power operates in the ministry of the church.
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Why Young Men Are Failing to LaunchFor Gen Z men who feel purposeless and lost, the way off the couch is the way of the Cross.
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Iranians Gain 12 New Ways to Read the BibleMarginalized minority groups receive New Testament translations. “If Jesus delays his return, they will say: Christians preserved our culture.”العربية
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