Books

New & Noteworthy 2025

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)

Also in this issue

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!

News

How NYC Churches Guard Endangered Languages

Skeptical Conversations About Converted Skeptics

Living Like a Monk in the Age of Fast Living

Reading—and Eating—as Communion

Krista Tippett on Wishful Thinking Versus Hope

On Rabbits, Redemption, and the Written Word

War Changes Everything—and Nothing

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

The Bestseller that Made Church Cool—and Optional

Review

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

News

The Good Book for Baby Names

AI and All Its Splendors

Qualms & Proverbs

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

Review

Good Readers Need More Than Good Reads

Review

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

News

The Balm of Gilead Grows Again, Maybe

Something Holy Shines

Public Theology Project

How a Book Club Taught Me to Live and Die

The False Gospel of Our Inner Critic

Testimony

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

The Christianity Today Book Awards

Christianity Today's Book of the Year

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