250 years of faith / The Presbyterian rebellion / 250 years later: Canada, America, and the gift of difference / Where did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? / The price of an imperfect union / The clip stage / When seminaries stop believing in God / When Job first heard the news that day.
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Here are my favorite books of 2026 so far, including standout Christian titles, church history, memoir, biography, and general market nonfiction.
If God meant everybody, why did he say Neighbour? / No faith worth defending / Is this young person ready to be baptized? / Your body is not for sale / Your church’s seating chart isn’t all bad / How to lead more vibrant prayer meetings / The utter horror of the smallest sins.
SCOTUS and women’s sports / Just because people are bad / Forgetting forever / Encouragement for heading off to college / What about pet idolatry? / When you wonder: ‘what did I do to deserve this?’ / Puritan documentary / Is it fair of God? / Deals and sales.
June tends to be one of the low points in the year for Christian book releases. Yet this year was an exception, as we saw plenty of interesting books make their way to the stores. Here are some of the highlights.
Rugged love and your prodigal / You don’t want to be internet famous / When grief becomes identity / Seven laws of technology and gaming / Why more money won’t fix you / The Passion Translation / States are quietly redefining the family / and more.
Why old people cry / The quiet crisis of prayerless orthodoxy / How not to be a functional atheist on your vacation / The sick fruit of our speech in an age of platforming / God’s gift to you is real life / Honoring dependent parents / What type of Christian is J. D. Vance?…
I have never known a mother whose son was executed, much less a mother whose son was executed despite being provably innocent. Though I can’t ask, I have sometimes wondered: Is it typical for a mother to attend her son’s execution?
The lost art of a wandering mind / Act in accordance with your prayers / 7 reasons God takes pleasure in election / Four essential responsibilities of a shepherd / What about Bob? / A critical heart is a miserable heart / Not a lack of food, but a lack of hunger / Kindle deals.
Works & Wonders: Beautiful life, a different kind of influencer, the most beautiful books in the world, the 50-year payoff, cellar spiders, and more.
Slop / The Boeing 747 begins its final descent / Peter Stafford trusted God, he was still afraid to die of Ebola / Why kinship societies kill their old / If we don’t speak for the unborn, who will? / Dispelling the overpopulation myth / Will the Safe Social Media Act make the internet safer?
IVF and the fractured right / Who should be admitted to the Lord’s Supper? / Dying a slow death well / Moral plausibility structures / Should children serve before belonging? / Skillet’s “Monster” / Child euthanasia / Kindle deals for Christians.
Felix Nmecha / Political bias in AI bots / What Jesus meant by “judge not” / Adding value to the world / Always because of God’s glory / Death is the ultimate perspective / Think more biblically / Kindle deals / and more.
The Phoebe hoax / Drawing the complementarian line / When they walk away / God is good … and kind? / I thought healing would look different / Un-self-conscious little boys / and more.
Amazon’s annual Prime Day deals are here, and for those of us who use Amazon anyway, it’s a time to get some deals. You’ll find items on sale across all categories. Of course, my interest is in books and, thankfully, there are lots of great deals to be had (in printed, not Kindle editions).
Sovereignty and my murdered friend / Murder in disguise / Raising kids in the faith is simpler than you may think / Where are the young men? Ministry and the crisis of formation / The design of feet on display at the World Cup / We are the witnesses / Being the best you can…
Why this temptation? / Running out of time / Let me dwell / The mirage of the influencer-pastor / Marks of growing disciples / Christ is praying for you / Your recommendation / Kindle deals.
First chief perfect, Then came a soccer ministry, A quadrillion miles of fungus, Psalm 119 volume 2, Prince Edward Island, Fried apple pie.
Long-form and think pieces on: Drugs vs. discipline in the age of Ozempic, the Muslim mind, A.I. doom trolling, the egalitarian scorched earth, against Christian doomerism, Fakes of the future, and many of your recommendations.
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