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.”

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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.

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Paul’s Letter to a Prejudiced Church

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

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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.

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Christian Lawyers Fight COVID-19 Home Evictions

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A World Vision Employee Is Still Awaiting Fair Trial in Israel

Did a Prophet Speak to You?

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Indian Government Regulation Squeezes Christian Charities

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Gleanings: March 2021

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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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President Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden was wrong, and no amount of bad behavior from Donald Trump changes that fact.

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UK Christians Lament Landmark Vote to Legalize Assisted Dying 

Pro-life faith leaders say Parliament’s proposed bill fails to protect the vulnerable and fear it will “create more suffering and chaos.”

Strike Up the Band: Sixpence None the Richer Goes Back on Tour

With its perennial hit “Kiss Me” still in our ears and on our playlists, the Christian band reunites with nothing to prove.

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The Christianity Today Book Awards

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The Bulletin

Matrescence with Lucy Jones

 

The Bulletin welcomes Lucy Jones for a conversation with Clarissa Moll on the neuroscience and social transformation of motherhood. 

Testimony

I Demolished My Faith for ‘My Best Life.’ It Only Led to Despair.

Queer love, polyamory, and drugs ruined me. That’s where Jesus found me.

The Book Screwtape Feared Most

Once a bedrock Christian classic, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” has been neglected for decades. It’s time for a revival.

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