Christy Award Winners for Christian Fiction Honored at Gala
Among the winners, 'Indigo Isle' by T.I. Lowe (Tyndale House) took home the Christy Award for Book of the Year, and The Amplify Award for Christian Fiction, which seeks to elevate stories from ethnically diverse perspectives, went to 'The American Queen' by Vanessa Miller (Thomas Nelson). more

A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry
Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery in ‘New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.’ more

10,000 Years of Spirituality in America
Thomas Tweed’s sweeping ‘Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age’ explores the history of religious beliefs in North America. more

Good Guy with a Gun: PW Talks with Rachel Wagner
Author Rachel Wagner talks about the mashup of Christianity, masculinity, power, and gun culture in her book, 'Cowboy Apocalypse.' more

The Power of Charisma: PW Talks with Molly Worthen
'Spellbound' author and historian Molly Worthen discusses how some leaders amass followings by the power of the stories they tell. more

Religion Book Deals: November 20, 2024
Lisa Fields looks at fallen heroes for Multnomah, and WaterBook takes a nine book series from John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way. more

Anticipating the Power and Pleasure of Christmas
Advent, beginning December 1, is a spiritual warm-up to the joyful triumph of Christmas. And publishers are offering titles to brighten and enlighten people during the hectic holiday preparations. more

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Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah
Wagner ('Godwired'), a professor of religious studies at Ithaca College, explores in this scrupulous study the uniquely American myth of the self-­proclaimed “vigilante messiah” who “performs radical salvation with a gun.” Wagner explores how the myth evolved in popular culture and art, from John Wayne westerns to such apocalyptic films as Armageddon, and draws intriguing and disturbing links to American mass shootings and the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is a thought-provoking dissection of one of America’s founding stories and its lingering effects. (Feb.) more

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward
Economic exploitation is “the root from which racism springs” and can be eradicated through adherence to Christian values, according to this impassioned debut. Pastor Foley explains how the “pursuit of profit” has fueled racism in America, with slavery ensuring American economic dominance through the violent extraction of labor, and public lynchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wielded as “the post-slavery whip” to retain “political and economic power” over Black people. The is both a forceful call to recognize the roots of American inequality and a solid starting point for Christians who want to help fix them. (Feb.) more

Aflame: Learning from Silence
Novelist and essayist Iyer ('The Half Known Life') shares in this luminous account the lessons that more than 30 years of visiting a Benedectine monastery in California have taught him about silence. Convinced by a friend to visit the retreat in 1991, he describes it as less a place of solitude than a tightly woven “communal web” where silence is not a means of retreating into the self but shedding it to better live in the world. As a result of his visits, Iyer comes to see the ways in which the sacred shows up again and again in the mundane. The author brilliantly illuminates philosophical insights about the nature of the self, the world, and how silence serves as a conduit between the two, often in elegant, evocative prose. This is stunning. (Jan.) more

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Beinart ('The Crisis of Zionism'), editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, issues an impassioned critique of the American Jewish community’s reaction to the war in Gaza. According to the author, “even Jews who are genuinely pained by Gaza’s agony” have convinced themselves that Israel’s outsize military response is necessary “to keep us safe,” hijacking historical narratives that frame Jews as a perennially victimized people as a justification for Israel to wield “life and death power over millions of Palestinians who lack even a passport.” Urgent and thought-provoking, this is sure to spark debate. (Jan.) more