New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy

Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson (Baker Academic)

Going to church and going to work each revolve around a particular set of rhythms: roles we perform instinctively and lines we know by heart. Yet the rhythms of Sunday and Monday morning “often feel as if they are a million miles apart,” say theologians Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson. Their book, Work and Worship, asks how believers beset by weekday pressures can experience Sunday as more than a welcome escape or an irrelevant sideshow. “Daily work,” they write, “should ‘show up’ in the community’s prayers and sermons, its songs and benedictions, its testimonies and sacraments. Theologies of work matter, but they need to be sung and prayed.”

Why Black Lives Matter: African American Thriving for the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Anthony B. Bradley (Cascade Books)

Under Martin Luther King Jr., the campaign for black civil rights took on an unmistakably Christian character. By contrast, today’s Black Lives Matter movement often feels alienated from organized religion. Why Black Lives Matter gathers black pastors, scholars, and theologians who bring their faith to bear on matters of black culture, church life, and political protest. As editor Anthony B. Bradley writes of the contributors, they differ on their “specific prescriptions for change,” but they “share a central conviction that there needs to be a resurgence of black religious leadership to properly form the Black Lives Matter movement.”

The Need for Creeds Today: Confessional Faith in a Faithless Age

J. V. Fesko (Baker Academic)

Many strains of American Christianity are skeptical of inherited tradition. They resist being bound to any faith statements they haven’t arrived at through their own biblical and spiritual reflection. In The Need for Creeds Today, theologian J. V. Fesko recovers the importance of the church’s historic confessions, showing how they proceed from the Bible’s own instructions and bring vitality, not bloodless conformity, to God’s people. “When we create, profess, and pass confessions down to future generations,” Fesko writes, “we do not propagate the dead faith of the living but the living faith of the dead.”

Also in this issue

This month’s issue features a collection of stories exploring how far America’s multiethnic church movement has come and how far it has yet to go. Ohio State University sociologist Korie Little Edwards, arguably today’s preeminent researcher of multiracial congregations, writes in a personal essay about the African American struggle to find “oneness” in diverse churches. While it takes different shapes, that struggle is shared by Christians in other ethnic communities, and it dates back to the early Corinthian church.

Cover Story

Paul’s Letter to a Prejudiced Church

Cover Story

The Multiethnic Church Movement Hasn’t Lived up to Its Promise

Cover Story

Why the Children of Immigrants Are Returning to Their Religious Roots

Testimony

What the Heavens Declared to a Young Astronomer

Editorial

The Premature Victory of a Vacant Cross

When Violent Nationalism Backfired for God’s People

Pray to God for Protection. Then Praise Him for Your Mask.

News

Christian Lawyers Fight COVID-19 Home Evictions

News

A World Vision Employee Is Still Awaiting Fair Trial in Israel

Did a Prophet Speak to You?

News

Indian Government Regulation Squeezes Christian Charities

News

Gleanings: March 2021

News

How Big and Small Nashville Churches Feed Hungry Families

Excerpt

Christian Parents: You Don’t Have to Protect Your Children from Divergent Opinions

Our March Issue: When Church Is Not ‘Home’

Scriptural Meditation Promises Something Better than Zen

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Ordinary Life Is Crammed with Heaven

Review

Evangelical Thinking on the Trinity Is Often Remarkably Revisionist

Review

The Problem with À La Carte Politics

Replanting Can Work. A Church Just Has to Die and Rise Again.

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Wire Story

Study: Evangelical Churches Aren’t Particularly Political

Even if members are politically active and many leaders are often outspoken about issues and candidates they support, most congregations make great efforts to keep politics out of the church when they gather.

News

Investigation to Look at 82 Years of Missionary School Abuse

Adult alumni “commanded a seat at the table” to negotiate for full inquiry.

Have Yourself an Enchanted Little Advent

Angels are everywhere in the Bible. The Christmas season reminds us to take them seriously.

News

Western North Carolina’s Weary Hearts Rejoice for Christmas

The holiday isn’t the same with flooded tree farms and damaged churches from Helene, but locals find cheer in recovery.

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In Italy, Evangelicals Wage a Quiet War on Christmas

Born-again Christians say the holiday is too Catholic and the celebration of Jesus’ birth isn’t based on the Bible.

The Bulletin

Exalting Every Valley with Charles King

The Bulletin welcomes historian Charles King for a conversation with Clarissa Moll about the modern relevance of Handel’s Messiah

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After Assad: Jihad or Liberty?

A coalition of rebel fighters promises to respect Syria’s religious minorities.

Egypt’s Redemption—and Ours

The flight of the holy family is more than a historical curiosity. It points us toward the breadth and beauty of God’s redemption.

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