Christianity Today Book Awards 2021

29 books

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Telling a Better Story

How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age

Josh Chatraw, 2020

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Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?

Sam Allberry, 2020

Biblical Studies

Reading with the Grain of Scripture

Richard B Hays, 2020

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A Boundless God

The Spirit according to the Old Testament

Jack Levison, 2020

Children & Youth

Courageous World Changers

50 True Stories of Daring Women of God

Shirley Raye Redmond, 2020

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Jesus and the Very Big Surprise

A True Story about Jesus, His Return, and How to Be Ready

Randall Goodgame, 2020

Christian Living/Discipleship

Healing Racial Trauma

The Road to Resilience

Sheila Wise Rowe, 2020

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Created to Draw Near

Our Life as God's Royal Priests

Edward T. Welch, 2020

The Church/Pastoral Leadership

A Place to Belong

Learning to Love the Local Church

Megan Hill, 2020

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Diary of a Pastor's Soul

The Holy Moments in a Life of Ministry

M. Craig Barnes, 2020

CT Women

Mother to Son

Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope

Jasmine L. Holmes, 2020

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Handle with Care

How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry

Lore Ferguson Wilbert, 2020

Culture and the Arts

The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty

Martin Schleske, 2020

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Bezalel's Body

The Death of God and the Birth of Art

Katie Kresser, 2019

Fiction

Eden Mine

A Novel

S. M. Hulse, 2020

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God's Liar

Thom Satterlee, 2020

History/Biography

Tornado God

American Religion and Violent Weather

Peter J. Thuesen, 2020

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They Knew They Were Pilgrims

Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

John G. Turner, 2020

Missions/Global Church

A Public Missiology

How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

Gregg Okesson, 2020

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A Multitude of All Peoples

Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity

Vince L. Bantu, 2020

Politics and Public Life

Politics after Christendom

Political Theology in a Fractured World

David VanDrunen, 2020

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Taking America Back for God

Christian Nationalism in the United States

Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry, 2020

Spiritual Formation

The Deeply Formed Life

Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

Rich Villodas, 2020

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The Way Up Is Down

Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself

Marlena Graves, 2020

Soul Care in African American Practice

Barbara L. Peacock, 2020

Theology/Ethics

"He Descended to the Dead"

An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday

Matthew Y. Emerson, 2019

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The Holy Spirit

Gregg Allison, Andreas J. Köstenberger, 2020

The Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year

Reading While Black

African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Esau McCaulley, 2020

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Christ and Calamity

Grace and Gratitude When the Days Are Evil

Harold Senkbeil, 2020