Books

New & Noteworthy Books

Chosen by Matt Reynolds.

Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History

Jasmine L. Holmes (Baker Books)

During the Jim Crow era, leading Black educators wrote history textbooks meant to elevate Black experiences that other textbooks ignored or obscured. Jasmine L. Holmes, a writer with an extensive teaching background, pursues a similar goal in Crowned with Glory, which uplifts a range of Black Americans who bore witness to God’s image in all people. As she explains, “I have written of Black Christians who understood their rights came from the Word of God, defended those rights in word and deed, and forged citizenship for themselves in a country that claimed to be founded on them.”

Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church

Jamie Dunlop (Crossway)

Conflict within churches over matters of politics and personality can sometimes signal a failure of gospel unity. But the good news, argues Jamie Dunlop, a pastor in Washington, DC, is that such conflicts offer valuable opportunities to affirm and live out the centrality of Christ. In Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy, Dunlop turns to the later chapters of Romans for wisdom on bearing patiently with fellow believers. As he observes, “the glory [God] receives in your church’s unity is greater in disagreement and difference than if everyone were in the same place to begin with.”

C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947

Mark A. Noll (IVP Academic)

C. S. Lewis became a household name in America on the strength of his Narnia novels and his most famous work of apologetics, Mere Christianity. But even in the years preceding The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950), his star was already rising. In this volume, adapted from lectures given at Wheaton College’s Marion E. Wade Center (and responses from Wheaton faculty), historian Mark A. Noll tracks the early attention to Lewis among Catholics, Protestants, and secular commentators. He writes, “By bringing together what Lewis wrote and what Americans wrote about Lewis, we gain deeper insight into both Lewis and America.”

Also in this issue

Our cover story this month looks at the complexity of the immigration crisis through a different lens. Rather than focusing on politics or policy, “One Christian’s Quest to Change the Way We See Immigration” profiles one particular border ministry and its vision for a specific piece of land and the stories it tells. Also in this issue: new life for a Deadhead, Jesus’ take on thrift, insights from medieval Christian spirituality, and lessons in unheroic aid from the Good Samaritan.

Cover Story

One Christian’s Quest to Change the Way We See Immigration

Blessed Are the Thrifty?

Indian Church Draws Strength from Ostracism

American Evangelicals Divide over Ukraine

Trump-Era Controversies Had a Measurable Effect on Church Attendance

Abolitionist Bible to Go on Public Display

Why Prison Ministries Are Growing

Dying to Our Selfies

A Person by Any Other Pronoun

The Border Is a Complex Place. Jesus Is There.

Why I’m a ‘Bible Thumping Fundamentalist’

Excerpt

There Is an Edge to Living on the Edge

I Stumbled in the Steps of the Good Samaritan

Review

The Law Can’t Always ‘Love’ You

Testimony

I Was a Disenchanted Deadhead Who Found Christ on a Greyhound Bus

Our Divided Age Needs More Talk of Enemies

Paul’s View on Death Changed Mine

The Black Church Models a Different Conversation About ‘Gender Roles’

Mystics, Monastics, and the Moderns Who Need Them

Review

Secular Figures Are Giving Faith a Second Look

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The history of a prominent church pastored by MLK in Alabama shows the reason African Americans often don’t embrace either term.

Review

The Liturgy of American Charisma

Historian Molly Worthen studies dynamic leaders, eager followers, and their shared efforts to “consecrate a new reality.”

Inside the Ministry

The Next Gen Initiative

Casting a captivating vision of following Jesus for the next generation.

News

Where Refugees Were Seen as an Opportunity from God

In Sweden, a church continues to advocate evangelism of Muslims, despite criticism from all sides.

Revival of the Nerds

On Twitch streams and in Discord chats, “nerd culture” ministers reach out to a demographic long misunderstood by the church.

Christian Gamers Find Their People

Video-game developers, speculative fiction authors, and table-top enthusiasts got together to play at an expo for “Christian storytellers in popular culture.”

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Bruce Deel: Mercy With A Spine

Creating real pathways to stability so families can flourish through housing, work, and dignity.

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