Christianity Today’s 2021 Book Awards
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
The Strange Journey of Christian Rock and Roll
Randall Stephens’s history pays attention to political and cultural flash points—without losing focus on the music itself.
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
“What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.”
Who’s in Charge Here?
American evangelicalism’s “crisis of authority.”
Letters
George Bailey’s Wonderful Universes
Is truth this much stranger than fiction?
The Sunbelt Coalition
Evangelicals and politics in a new light.
All Shook Up
Experience in Pentecostal churches fired a love of music many early rockers couldn’t shake
Johnny Cash’s Very American Recordings
Rodney Clapp’s ambitious scope occasionally confines the musical icon to the shadows in an otherwise illuminating tour.
Hidden Under a Bushel
Sufjan Stevens and the problem of Christian music.