Jonathan Merritt
Christian Living
“Home Behind the Sun is so elegant and moving that it nearly took my breath away. The prose glimmers and rattles and nearly every page forced me to wrestle with important questions about joy, whimsy, imagination, and purpose. Home Behind the Sun is a poetic portrait of God’s glory that is as brave as it is beautiful. As you read, breathe deeply.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“I’m no Scrooge, but the last thing I want to read is another book on the Christmas story. Luckily, that’s not what this book is about. Scott Erickson’s beautifully crafted book helped me see God-with-Us with fresh eyes. Honest Advent is no shallow seasonal gift book; it’s an invitation to explore the divine flourishes of everyday human vulnerabilities. A transformative read, regardless of the time of year.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Scott Erickson's beautifully crafted book helped me see God-with-Us with fresh eyes. Honest Advent is no shallow seasonal gift book; it's an invitation to explore the divine flourishes of everyday human vulnerabilities. A transformative read, regardless of the time of year.”
How I Changed My Mind About Evolution
Science & Faith
“Debates about the origins of the universe and human life have raged within religious communities for more than a century, and today they are fiercer than ever. Many Christians have given the impression that religion and science are at irreconcilable odds, leaving people of faith who find science credible without a way forward. How I Changed My Mind About Evolution seeks to dissolve this false dichotomy. It holds the Bible in high regard without discrediting science's conclusions. If you are looking for a resource that is both biblically sound and scientifically serious, this is a great place to start. The ideas are convincing, the writing is appropriately accessible and the concepts are bursting with hope.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Depression has a way of turning prayer into a foreign language, leaving us stammering in the dark for words we once spoke with ease. In the Low gives voice to those struck speechless by despair, honoring the sacred truth that faith often speaks through the shadows. McRoberts and Erickson grant us permission to bring our whole selves—including our deepest pain—and lay them before the Divine. I can’t recommend this book highly enough for all who need to be reminded that God meets us not despite our darkness but within it.”
Christian Living
“Readers beware: Jarrid Wilson doesn’t pull any punches. If you are a poser preacher, bogus believer, or faker follower who wants to be left alone to live an inauthentic life pretending to be someone someone you’re not, stay as far away from this book as possible. Jesus Swagger will kick you out of your comfort zone, force you to face your fears, and catapult you into a more honest existence. Put it down right now so you can keep being the impostor God never called you to be.”
Christian Living
“A hilarious account of spiritual globetrotting, Jesus without Borders is an insightful travelogue on how local culture shapes Christian culture around the world.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“If you are committed to understanding and loving you gay child, queer cousin, or trans neighbor, start here with Love Makes Room. The story of Staci Frenes's quest for a more expansive expression of love will help you make room in your heart for others, too. It's that simple. It's that difficult. It's that profound.”
Christian Living
“In the New Testament gospels, Jesus presents love as the ultimate end of a moral life. But like many Americans, I grew up in a tradition that granted “truth” co-primacy with love. We were told to make absolutely sure we held all the correct beliefs and that we needed to remind everyone who disagreed that they were wrong, wrong, wrong. Jared Byas has come along in the nick of time with a powerful book to help us dismantle these false constructs and liberate ourselves to love without constraint. Just as Jesus taught. Love Matters More is required reading for anyone who has ever felt they had to balance being correct with being loving.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In a world marked by busyness and burnout, Mindful Silence offers us both an exit strategy and an invitation. Phileena Heuertz has written a must-read for anyone desiring to live a more mindful, meaningful life. Read this book and learn from one of the great spiritual guides of our time.”
History & Biography
“On Her Knees is no flimsy summer ‘beach read.’ No, it’s the kind of book that grabs you by the shoulders and makes you think. In this book, Brenda Marie Davies takes readers on a guided tour of conservative Christian purity culture that will leave them haunted. With the precision of a surgeon, she vividly explores the way purity culture distorts the way people view bodies, sex, and the Divine. From the carnage of an evangelical hellscape, Davies offers hope for self-acceptance, healing, and, dare I say, salvation.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“As someone who makes a living writing at the intersection of faith and culture, I'm inundated with stories of people who are spirituality disillusioned. Too many have been told their doubts and objections, brokenness and struggles, orientations and identities are incompatible with living in the arms of divine love. Michael John Cusick offers us something we need more than we know: a trauma-informed spirituality of compassion. Sacred Attachment presents a path for life with God that is wide-armed and clear-eyed. This remarkable book makes the good news feel, well, good. And it has come to us not a moment too soon.”
Christian Living
“We all must come to terms with how our lives have, and have not, turned out. Say Yes graciously illuminates how the death of a dream is not the end of our story but the preparation to the unexpected next chapter of it.”
Christian Living
“A book on grace with the power to liberate us from the weight of works and requirements and do-goodisms that have plagued Christians for far too long. Every page is bursting with freedom. Finally, a grace-filled book on grace!”
Women
“Christians are notoriously bad at talking about sex. Sexless in the City is a layered and nuanced conversation around singleness and sex, dating and desire that people of faith need far more than they realize. Kat Harris shares her own journey with remarkable vulnerability—sparing no detail and granting no respect to cultural taboos—to invite readers to confront their own hidden struggles and fears. Remarkably, this book normalizes healthy discussion about sexuality without abandoning faith as irrelevant or dismissing the sacred Scriptures as antiquated. I recommend this book, but only for brave believers who are ready to be transformed by the renewing of their minds.”
Arts & Literature
“Few people are as capable as Scott McClellan to write a book like this. In recent years, he has become one of the most trusted Christian voices on effective communication. In Tell Me a Story, Scott seeks to empower readers to become captivating and compelling storytellers. You'd do well to listen to what he has to say.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If you’re not Christian, you might be surprised to learn that Christians fight a lot about the Bible’s debut character, Adam—or maybe not. Christians fight about a lot. If you are a Christian, you should buy Enns’s book. I bought it in graduate school and was unforgettably impacted by its rare combination of scholarship and soul. You will not find a more honest and empowering book on the origins of life than this one.”
Christian Living
“I love my dad with my whole heart, but we have a deeply complicated relationship. Which is to say, we’re like most fathers and sons. Patton Dodd’s story is not my story exactly, but reading it felt strangely familiar in parts and helped me better understand my own. The Father You Get is a brave book and a riveting exploration of the nature of the relationships between parent and child—both the ones that actually exist and the ones we often fantasize about. I could not stop turning the pages of this honest, insightful memoir. Everyone who has a father should read it—and yes, that means all of us.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“More than a half-century has passed since Martin Luther King Jr. called 11:00 a.m. on Sunday ‘the most segregated hour in this nation,’ and his words are still true. For shame. A racially segregated church not only fails to reflect the increasingly multiethnic make-up of America, but it also fails to live up to the biblical vision of what God’s kingdom. Where is this community comprised of “every nation and tribe and people and language” that the Apostle John spoke about? But despair not, dear readers. In a moment where the church lags painfully behind the progress of society, Derwin Grey offers a clarion call for a revolution in our ranks. The High-Definition Leader arrives at the right moment and comes at you like a rocket—with superb precision and paradigm-exploding power. Skip it at your peril.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“When I survey twenty-first century America, I fight to avoid depression and despair. But in such a moment, Zach Hoag has swept in with a prophetic message bursting with optimism. The darkness is real, he admits, but it is also receding. Hoag refocuses our collective gaze and argues convincingly that America is entering a time of “Great Revealing.” So sit back and read slowly. The Light Is Winning pulls back the cultural curtain to reveal not a wizard, but a blinding light of hope.”
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