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Christianity Today Book Awards

Christianity Today selects books that are most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. Award winners are selected from a variety of categories including: apologetics/evangelism, Biblical studies, Bible and Devotional, Children, Christian Living/Spiritual Formation, the Church/pastoral leadership, culture and the arts, fiction, history/biography, marriage and family, and missions/the global Church.

Learn more about the seven IVP books recognized by Christianity Today in the press release.

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Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor, By Tim Morey
Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul
Tim Morey
Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church, By Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
Winsome Conviction
Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach, By Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew
The Doctrine of Creation
Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, By Esau McCaulley
Reading While Black
Esau McCaulley
The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself, By Marlena Graves
The Way Up Is Down
Marlena Graves
Soul Care in African American Practice, By Barbara L. Peacock
Soul Care in African American Practice
Barbara Peacock
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope, By Jasmine L. Holmes
Mother to Son
Jasmine Holmes
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, By Sheila Wise Rowe
Healing Racial Trauma
Sheila Rowe
"He Descended to the Dead"
Matthew Y. Emerson
Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality, By Andrew T. Le Peau
Write Better
Andrew T. Le Peau
Women in God's Mission: Accepting the Invitation to Serve and Lead, By Mary T. Lederleitner
Women in God's Mission
Mary T. Lederleitner
Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective, By Wanjiru M. Gitau
Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered
Wanjiru M. Gitau
Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, By Elaine Storkey
Scars Across Humanity
Elaine Storkey
An Extra Mile: A Story of Embracing God's Call, By Sharon Garlough Brown
An Extra Mile
Sharon Garlough Brown
Preaching as Reminding: Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness, By Jeffrey D. Arthurs
Preaching as Reminding
Jeffrey D. Arthurs
Winsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World, By Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
Winsome Persuasion
Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer
Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering, By Kelly M. Kapic
Embodied Hope
Kelly M. Kapic
Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life, By Makoto Fujimura
Culture Care
Makoto Fujimura
Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, By Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness
Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
Jonathan A. Anderson and William A. Dyrness
Taking Pascal's Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life, By Michael Rota
Taking Pascal's Wager
Michael Rota
The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction, By Adam S. McHugh
The Listening Life
Adam S. McHugh
The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate, By John H. Walton
The Lost World of Adam and Eve
John H. Walton
Rejoicing in Christ, By Michael Reeves
Rejoicing in Christ
Michael Reeves
Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith, By Jen Pollock Michel
Teach Us to Want
Jen Pollock Michel
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The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community, By Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen
The New Parish
Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen