Jonathan Martin

Letting Go, Finding You

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Of the many books on the Enneagram I have read, it would be truthful to say that Hunter Mobley's Letting Go, Finding You is my favorite of them all... but that feels like underselling it, as it immediately became one of my favorite books on spirituality more broadly. This is a warm, cleansing, clarifying book that will both enable you to name exactly where you are, and give you the resources to go where you want to go. To read this book soulfully and openly is to be transformed.”

Para subir hay que bajar

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Para subir hay que bajar de Marlena Graves es un tour de force. Con las chispas de la electricidad del Espíritu, ingeniosa, tierna, sabia, vulnerable y hermosamente escrito—es futurístico en lo que une. Aun así, lo leemos con el conocimiento profundo que las verdades antiguas están siendo abiertas de par en par aquí. De manera teológicamente robusta y pulsando con vida, por un lado, humilde y por el otro profundamente desafiante, este es el tipo de testimonio fresco, valiente, profético y pastoral que necesitamos desesperadamente ahora. La verdad del agachamiento de Jesús—su camino del descenso—es articulado con claridad reveladora.”

Tables in the Wilderness

History & Biography

“There are frankly not many contemporary spiritual memoirs anywhere nearly this good (nor this honest).”

The Jewish Centaur

History & Biography

“Josh Rice has written the book on Pentecostalism I've been waiting for all my life. On one hand, The Jewish Centaur is a memoir baptized by the Holy Ghost with fire--in Pentecostal vernacular, it's a testimony. But it's also the most truthful account of the movement in its native North American context, written with all the love and angst becoming of one of its sons. Neither cynical nor sentimental, this is the most robust attempt in print to capture Pentecostal spirituality in both its collective beauty and chaos. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny, reverent, and incisive, the book lives at the same intersections Josh does: at the corner of head and heart, church and academy, elegant literature and unknown tongues. Like the best tent revival services, I found myself moving casually between weeping, cringing, and worshiping. Unlike the worst of the tent revivals, The Jewish Centaur goes through the spectacle into the spectacular. Taking us into a world full of signs and wonders, it's only appropriate that Rice has given us a book that is, in and of itself, a minor miracle.”

When Everything's on Fire

Apologetics

“All truths are open secrets, and everything good and beautiful is accessible to everyone; so it is theoretically possible for any of us to stumble into any truth any time. But I believe the book you are holding now is one that truly only Brian Zahnd could write, and the precise book we needed him to write in this particular moment. His gift is clarity, and the way he focuses his prophetic vision here is so lucid, singular, and laser focused, it is almost blinding. Zahnd does not offer us certainty in uncertain times, which is always just a bad magic trick, anyway—he offers something much better: beauty. This is a flaming, scorchingly beautiful vision of faith in a world where faith has left many of us in the cold. Prepare to be burned.”

Why Would Anyone Go to Church?

Christian Living

““I can think of no other subgenre of literature more preferable to avoid than memoirs from faith leaders and first-person accounts of their own faith communities—inevitably more hagiography than biography, real stories are flattened in the process of making saints and manufacturing meaning. And then along comes this surprising, astonishing gem of a book. I love Kevin Makins’s Why Would Anyone Go to Church? for its unvarnished, unflinching honesty; incisive, beautiful writing; authentic belly laughs; and for the many moments I had to put it down, gut-punched by the sheer holiness and humanity in these pages. It made me fall in love with the church again, despite myself. This startling book on Christian community is too unlike anything else to be the one you came looking for but, if you’re like me, precisely the one your soul has craved. Bonhoeffer gave us Life Together; Kevin Makins has given us a less reverent, more complex, more human story of what life together looks like here and now.”