New & Noteworthy 2025

Matt Reynolds

Seven books we’re looking forward to in the new year.

Illustration by E S Kibele Yarman

The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World

David Zahl (Brazos Press)

The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism

Brad Edwards (Zondervan)

Bearing Witness: What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists

Daniel Lee Hill (Baker Academic)

Made to Tremble: How Anxiety Became the Best Thing That Ever Happened to My Faith

Blair Linne (B&H)

Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World

Lee Strobel (Zondervan)

Beyond Church and Parachurch: From Competition to Missional Extension

Angie Ward (InterVarsity Press)

Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age

Edited by Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa (Crossway)

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This first issue of 2025 exemplifies how reading creates community, grows empathy, gives words to the unnamable, and reminds us that our identities and relationships proceed from the Word of God and the Word made flesh. In this issue, you’ll read about the importance of a book club from Russell Moore and a meditation on the bookends of a life by Jen Wilkin. Mark Meynell writes about the present-day impact of a C. S. Lewis sermon in Ukraine, and Emily Belz reports on how churches care for endangered languages in New York City. Poet Malcolm Guite regales us with literary depth. And we hope you’ll pick up a copy of one of our CT Book Award winners or finalists. Happy reading!

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How NYC Churches Guard Endangered Languages

Emily Belz in New York

Skeptical Conversations About Converted Skeptics

Kate Lucky

Living Like a Monk in the Age of Fast Living

Evan B. Howard

War Changes Everything—and Nothing

Mark Meynell

At My Mother’s Deathbed, I Discovered the Symmetry of a Long Life

Jen Wilkin

The Bestseller that Made Church Cool—and Optional

Ashley Hales

Review

The Best Books for Christian Men Aren’t Always About Being Men

Matt Reynolds

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The Good Book for Baby Names

Daniel Silliman

AI and All Its Splendors

Jeffrey Bilbro

Qualms & Proverbs

How Do I Find My Identity in Christ When I So Want to Be Married?

Beth Moore, Kevin Antlitz, and Kiara John-Charles

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Good Readers Need More Than Good Reads

Matthew Mullins

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No One Told These Ink-Stained Dreamers to Make Books. They Just Did.

Andrew T. Le Peau

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The Balm of Gilead Grows Again, Maybe

Daniel Silliman

Something Holy Shines

Malcolm Guite

Public Theology Project

How a Book Club Taught Me to Live and Die

Russell Moore

The False Gospel of Our Inner Critic

Steve Cuss

Testimony

I Turned to New Age Psychedelics for Salvation. They Couldn’t Deliver.

Ashley Lande

Christianity Today’s 2025 Book Awards

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Four astronauts remind us that our humanity is both a gift from God and a joy.

Black Immigrants Are Diversifying the American Church

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African Americans have long ministered to Black people abroad. Those communities are now increasingly migrating to the US.

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It offered the certitude of a pat narrative when what I needed was music and literature to interrogate myself.

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