John Blake

Beauty and Resistance

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“For those numbed by the relentless polarization of this era, Beauty and Resistance is a stirring call to action. We have enough authors who tell us how we can change the world, but Jonathan Walton adds something else: a rule of life for embracing beauty and rest as well as resistance. At the core of Walton's story is a refreshing honesty, vulnerability, and a welcome belief that resistance and beauty can not only coexist but thrive together.”

She Made a Way

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

What Kind of Christianity

History & Biography

“Don’t be misled by the word, Presbyterian, in the title. This riveting book by Dr. William Yoo is about more than the Presbyterian church’s complicity with slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. It depicts how the most religious and learned people justify what they know as evil. The book has the depth of a historian who knows all the nooks and crannies of the debate over slavery. But what I like the most about it is that it is so engaging to read. It’s a page-turner because it’s full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, letters, and vivid portraits of leaders on both sides of the slavery debate. I’ve read plenty of books about the lead-up to the Civil War. This is one of the best. The author packed so much emotion and narrative drive into a slim book. Yoo’s book is a gem.”

What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated

Christian Living

“As journalist, gadfly, and prophet rolled into one, Yancey’s habit is to stick out his neck and say, “Look—see—change!” Yancey’s treatment of the life of grace is vintage Yancey, and will give readers a salutary Christian shake-up. DR. J. I. PACKER, theologian What’s So Amazing About Grace doesn’t just stand the test of time. Its message that grace, not the thirst for power or exclusion, is at the heart of Christianity is more urgent than ever. Yancey’s classic should come with a warning: no religious platitudes allowed. The book is compulsively readable, drawing unexpected connections between everything from cult movies to finding a lost twenty-dollar bill, all to illustrate that we’re surrounded by the concept of grace—if we could just open our eyes. At the heart of this book is Yancey’s personal vulnerability and his unparalleled ability to make faith accessible to those wounded by organized religion. This is not just an excellent book on faith; it’s a provocative, deeply felt book for anyone willing to see the world in a different way.”