Christianity Today Book Awards 2024

by Christianity Today

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60 books

Let’s say you want to write a book. You’ve got a captivating story to tell or a compelling argument to make. You’ve got a gift with words.

That’s a good start! But there are other things you (probably) don’t have. Like easy access to paper and ink reserves, a commercial printing press, and a fleet of trucks to haul your handiwork across the country. Even then, more hurdles await, like convincing the people who run libraries and bookstores (and Amazon sales teams) to stock an item with your name on the cover.

In our era, new technologies and services have emerged to lower these barriers. Just as social media sites and Substack pages allow writers to bypass traditional media gatekeepers, avenues exist for publishing books outside the orbit of pedigreed institutions with fancy offices.

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Apologetics/Evangelism

Winner

On the Resurrection, Volume 1

Gary Habermas, 2024

Award of Merit

A New and Ancient Evangelism

Rediscovering the Ways God Calls and Sends

Judith Paulsen, 2024

Finalists

Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships?

Examining 10 Claims about Scripture and Sexuality

Rebecca McLaughlin, 2024

Faith for the Curious

How an Era of Spiritual Openness Shapes the Way We Live and Helps Others Follow Jesus

Mark Matlock, 2024

Missions/Global Church

Winner

Islam and the Bible

Questioning Muslim Idiom Translations

Ayman S. Ibrahim, Ant Greenham, 2023

Award of Merit

You Will Be My Witnesses

Theology for God's Church Serving in God's Mission

Brian A. DeVries, 2024

Finalists

Soul by Soul

The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims

Adriana Carranca, 2024

Crossing Cultures with the Gospel

Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness

Darrell L. Whiteman, 2024

Biblical Studies

Winner

The New Testament in Color

A Multiethnic Bible Commentary

Esau McCaulley, Janette H. Ok, Osvaldo Padilla, Amy L. B. Peeler, 2024

Award of Merit

The Transfiguration of Christ

An Exegetical and Theological Reading

Patrick Schreiner, 2024

Finalists

Resurrection Remembered

A Memory Approach to Jesus' Resurrection in First Corinthians

David Graieg, 2024

Jesus, Contradicted

Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently

Michael R. Licona, 2024

Bible and Devotional

Winner

Nearing a Far God

Praying the Psalms with Our Whole Selves

Leslie Leyland Fields, 2024

Award of Merit

Conquerors Not Captives

Reframing Romans 7 for the Christian Life

Joseph R Dodson, 2024

Finalists

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Pascha to Pentecost

Jonathan Gibson, 2023

Story, Ritual, Prophecy, Wisdom: Reading and Teaching the Bible Today

Mark W. Hamilton, Samjung Kang-Hamilton, 2024

Christian Living/Spiritual Formation

Winner

A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation

Finding Life in Truth, Goodness, Beauty, and Community

Alex Sosler, 2024

Award of Merit

Waiting Isn't a Waste

The Surprising Comfort of Trusting God in the Uncertainties of Life

Mark Vroegop, 2024

Finalists

The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever

Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ

Ashley Lande, 2024

Letters to a Future Saint

Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry

Brad East, 2024

Church/Pastoral Leadership

Winner

When the Church Harms God's People

Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded

Diane Langberg, 2024

Award of Merit

De-sizing the Church

How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next

Karl Vaters, 2024

Finalists

Reckoning with Power

Why the Church Fails When It's on the Wrong Side of Power

David E. Fitch, 2024

Estranged Pioneers

Race, Faith, and Leadership in a Diverse World

Korie Little Edwards, Rebecca Y. Kim, 2024

Children

Winner

Arlo and the "Keep Out" Club

Betsy Childs Howard, 2024

Award of Merit

Go Bible

A Life-Changing Bible for Kids

Finalists

My Tender Heart Devotions (Part of the "My Tender Heart" Series)

Laura Sassi, 2024

Strong

Sally Lloyd-Jones, 2024

Young Adults

Winner

The Miracle Seed

Martin Lemelman, 2023

Award of Merit

More to the Story

Deep Answers to Real Questions on Attraction, Identity, and Relationships

Jennifer M. Kvamme, 2024

Finalists

The Found Boys

S. D. Smith, 2024

Longing for Christmas

25 Promises Fulfilled in Jesus, Advent Devotional for Teenagers

Chelsea Kingston Erikson, 2024

Marriage, Family, and Singleness

Winner

God's Grace for Every Family

Biblical Encouragement for Single-Parent Families and the Churches that Seek to Love them Well

Anna Meade Harris, 2024

Award of Merit

Loving Your Adult Children: The Heartache of Parenting and the Hope of the Gospel

Gaye B. Clark, 2024

Finalists

Family Discipleship That Works

Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus

Brian Dembowczyk, 2024

Solo Planet

How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling

Anna Broadway, 2024

Culture, Poetry, and the Arts

Winner

Word Made Fresh

An Invitation to Poetry for the Church

Abram Van Engen, 2024

Award of Merit

Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress

Jessica Hooten Wilson, 2024

Finalists

Becoming by Beholding

The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation

Lanta Davis, 2024

Deep Reading

Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age

Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, Rachel M de Smith Roberts, 2024

Fiction

Winner

This Ain't No Promised Land

Tina Shelton, 2024

Award of Merit

40: A Collection of Modern-Day Parables

John Cleveland, 2024

Finalists

American Inheritance

Nathan Nipper, 2024

Prisms, Veils

A Book of Fables

David Bentley Hart, 2024

History/Biography

Winner

God Gave Rock and Roll to You

A History of Contemporary Christian Music

Leah Payne, 2024

Award of Merit

Jingjiao

The Earliest Christian Church in China

Glen L. Thompson, 2024

Finalists

The Reformation of the Heart

Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution

Sarah Apetrei, 2023

Turning Points in American Church History

How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith

Elesha J. Coffman, 2024

Politics and Public Life

Winner

Curious

A Foster Mom's Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs and Addiction

Christina Dent, 2023

Award of Merit

Disarming Leviathan

Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

Caleb E. Campbell, 2024

Finalists

The Spirit of Our Politics

Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life

Michael R. Wear, 2024

Faithful Reason

Natural Law Ethics for God’s Glory and Our Good

Andrew T. Walker, 2024

Theology (popular)

Winner

What It Means to Be Protestant

The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

Gavin Ortlund, 2024

Award of Merit

Cultural Sanctification

Engaging the World like the Early Church

Stephen O. Presley, 2024

Finalists

Know the Theologians

Jennifer Powell McNutt, David McNutt, 2024

Daily Doctrine

A One-Year Guide to Systematic Theology

Kevin DeYoung, 2024

Theology (academic)

Winner

Mere Christian Hermeneutics

Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 2024

Award of Merit

Gender as Love

A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds

Fellipe do Vale, 2023

Finalists

Thinking Through the Problem of Hell

The Divine Presence Model

R. Zachary Manis, 2024

Why We Pray

Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict

John C. Peckham, 2024