Top 10
Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith
Rachel Held Evans. HarperOne, Feb. 24 ($29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-289450-2)
These essays from the late progressive Christian thinker grapple with the evolution of her faith, evangelicalism’s effects on American culture, and other topics.
Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
Matthew Avery Sutton. Basic, Mar. 3 ($40, ISBN 978-1-5416-4633-9)
Historian Sutton traces 500 years of Christianity in America, highlighting how the religion shaped narratives and events ranging from the civil rights movement to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Cold War.
Godball: How Athletes are Saving Christianity
Steve Eubanks. Center Street, June 9 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-60043-9)
Sports journalist Eubanks links the recent rise in male athletes’ public declarations of faith to an increase in religious adherence among young American men.
I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition
Yair Mintzker. Princeton Univ., Mar. 31 ($29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-27270-2)
National Jewish Book Award winner Mintzker probes the story of the so-called wandering Jew, cursed to roam the earth after refusing to save Jesus, teasing out its resonances as an antisemitic trope and commentary on Jewish exile.
Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
Martin Shaw. Sentinel, Feb. 3 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-71656-4)
Personal and collective myths help believers feel whole in a modern society starved of purpose and community, according to Shaw, a mythologist and visiting professor at Cambridge University’s divinity school.
Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West
Bart D. Ehrman. Simon & Schuster, Mar. 24 ($30, ISBN 978-1-6680-2503-1)
Theologian Ehrman chronicles how Christ’s command to love the stranger revolutionized Western ethics, reshaping society and politics by reimagining the relationship between the individual and the public.
Missing Me: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis and the Long Road Back
Ayana Lage. Worthy, Mar. 17 ($28, ISBN 978-1-5460-0895-8)
This memoir tracks blogger Lage’s descent into psychosis after giving birth to her daughter, whom she briefly became convinced was the second coming of Jesus Christ, as well as her eventual recovery.
Pope Leo XIV: The Biography
Elise Ann Ellen. Image, Apr. 28 ($28, ISBN 979-8-217-15570-5)
Drawing from interviews with the new pope, the Crux correspondent charts Robert Prevost’s improbable path to the papacy and speculates on his priorities.
We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity
Kristin T. Lee. Broadleaf, Apr. 7 ($27.99, ISBN 979-8-88983-502-8)
Lee, a primary care physician, recounts how she reconciled Western Christianity with her Asian American identity to build a personal faith that honors the marginalized.
Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer
Christopher Beha. Penguin Press, Feb. 17 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-49047-1)
Former Harper’s editor Beha recounts his decades-long struggle to find answers in atheism before embracing faith, and along the way tackles questions about suffering, pain, mortality and purpose.
Religion & Spirituality Longlist
Fiction
Barbour
The Caregiver at Wounded Knee by Debby Lee (Feb. 1, $14.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89151-290-0). The “immersive” finale of the Enduring Hope series follows a late-19th-century Lakota woman who returns to the reservation she’d been banished from as a child, per PW’s review.
Not Precisely Mr. Knightley by Carolyn Miller (May 1, $14.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89151-330-3). When Jordan Knight falls for his dating app co-designer, his botched attempts to protect her from a money-hungry boyfriend may jeopardize their business—and a possible relationship.
Bethany House
The Bookshop of 99 Doors by Jaime Jo Wright (Apr. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7642-4381-3). Two women, a century apart, search for the mythical 100th door of a haunted mansion in hopes of unlocking its secrets.
Hearts on the Fly by Toni Shiloh (Feb. 3, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7642-4520-6). This “charming second-chance romance,” per PW’s review, pairs a wallflower and a sweet former hockey star who happens to be her sister’s ex.
The Manhattan Confessions by Jocelyn Green (Apr. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7642-3965-6). Green’s latest transports readers to 1920s Manhattan, where a New York Historical Society librarian gets embroiled in a web of high-society secrets with life-threatening consequences.
IVP
Chapter One Again by Keelia Clarkson (June 9, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5140-1372-4). Facing a professional crossroads, a New York City ghostwriter returns to her quaint hometown and finds unexpected answers.
Kensington
D Is for Daisy by Shelley Shepard Gray (June 30, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-5882-8). Book four of the Amish ABCs series pairs a mild-mannered man who’s helping his friend’s parents run their new farm with the local woman who’s always dreamed of buying it.
Lake Union
What Tomorrow Will Be by Julianne MacLean (Feb. 3, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-6625-1912-3). Years after an accident robs her of her childhood sweetheart, Sienna MacKay finds herself caught between the life she’s rebuilt and the idealized past she’s left behind.
Revell
All Booked Up by Melody Carlson (Mar. 17, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4725-1). After her husband dies, cash-strapped Riva Owens opens her home to a group of quirky senior boarders whose antics bring chaos—and possibly new love—into her life.
Almost by Design by Jenny Erlingsson (June 2, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4775-6). An aspiring event planner and a doctor fake a relationship to satisfy their nagging parents and advance their careers, until their budding mutual attraction unravels the scheme.
A Deeper Well: The Story of the Woman at the Well by Jill Eileen Smith (Feb. 17, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4480-9). Smith’s latest work of biblical fiction is an “affecting” tale of a Samaritan woman “struggling against the constraints of womanhood in ancient Israel,” according to PW’s review.
Last to Fall by Lynn H. Blackburn (Mar. 3, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4538-7). In the Gossamer Falls series finale, a woman who’s trying to solve a mysterious crisis at her family’s exclusive mountain resort must call on her Army intelligence officer ex to uncover the culprit.
Tyndale Fiction
Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack (June 9, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-4005-1451-7). After a pickleball injury gives a married interior designer a second shot at her 20s, she explores the careers, romances, and friendships she missed out on.
Waterbrook
Home No Matter Where by Nancy Naigle (May 5, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-593-60106-8). A stressed single mom travels to her mother’s coastal home for help raising her reckless teenage daughter, stirring up family secrets while offering all three women an unexpected chance to start anew.
Nonfiction
Amber
Popes Illustrated: From St. Peter to Leo XIV by Dominic Connolly (May 19, $40, ISBN 978-1-83886-661-7) profiles each of the popes and explains how they’ve shaped the Catholic church, from the first millennium
to the present.
Ave Maria
Into the Heart of Middle-Earth: Exploring Faith and Fellowship in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by Kaitlyn Facista (Feb. 20, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64680-365-1) unpacks the Catholic symbolism and religious principles woven into Tolkien’s books.
B&H
Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can by David Pollack, with Mark Schlabach (Apr. 7, $22.99, ISBN 979-8-3845-3864-6). Recalling how he started over after a career-ending football injury, the former Cincinnati Bengals player urges readers to take small, manageable steps toward a more fulfilling life.
Still Here: Life Together on the Long Way Home by Steven Curtis Chapman and Mary Beth Chapman (Mar. 24, $22.99, ISBN 979-
8-3845-3373-3). The Christian singer and his wife recount how their faith has propelled them through their 50-year marriage and impart the lessons they learned along the way.
Baker
When God Seems Distant: Surprising Ways God Deepens Our Faith and Draws Us Near by Kyle Strobel and John Coe (Feb. 3, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5409-0532-1) argues that believers should capitalize on periods of apparent spiritual desolation to take stock of their flaws and look to God for healing.
Bethany House
The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus by Jeremiah J. Johnston (Mar. 10, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7642-4366-0) spotlights 10 artifacts that shed light on Jesus’s life and present-day Christianity.
Bloomsbury Academic
Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Amy Laura Hall (May 14, $32, ISBN 979-8-216-38347-5) tracks how a form of Christianity that merges masculinity, capitalism, and power has been harnessed through history to prop up political hierarchies and protect the powerful.
Brazos
Love Like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God by Elizabeth Berget (May 5, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58743-681-9) frames motherhood as an opportunity to bolster faith and appreciate God’s character.
Men of Virtue: How the Fruit of the Spirit Forms Male Character in the Modern World by Zachary Wagner (May 26, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58743-671-0) offers nine divine virtues as an antidote to today’s crisis of masculinity.
Broadleaf
Lost & Found in the Cathedral of Cinema: A Spiritual Journey by Jeffrey Overstreet (May 12, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5064-9694-8) analyzes secular movies that expanded the author’s understanding of God, faith, and spirituality within the everyday.
You Don’t Need a Calling: An Anti-capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose by Damon Garcia (June 23, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88983-216-4) counters the idea that one’s life purpose is synonymous with productivity or professional gain, and recommends finding value in the present moment instead.
Broadside
The Jews and the Left by Batya Ungar-Sargon (June 2, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-346060-7) charts the longtime Jewish alliance with liberalism, from America’s founding to the current leftist association with anti-Zionism that has begun to fracture it.
Casemate
Refined by Fire: An Army Chaplain in Iraq by James Y. Pennington (May 31, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-63624-619-2). Recounting a year spent ministering to soldiers in Iraq, the author meditates on combat and faith.
Chalice
Beyond the Stained Glass Ceiling: Clergy Women in a Still-Patriarchal Church by Alina Gayeuski (Mar. 3, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8272-0353-2) argues that oppressive church structures continue to stymie female clergy’s power, and draws on feminist theology to envision a church that prizes equality.
Chosen
Lead Like Paul: 21 Ways to Reignite Your Spiritual Fire and Expand Your Spirit-Led Influence by J. Lee Grady (July 28, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-080077-848-0) mines the apostle’s legacy for advice on leading with humility, piety, and perseverance.
Collective Book Studio
DIY Spirituality: Chart Your Own Sacred Path by Faith Freed (Feb. 17, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-68555-284-8) outlines how readers can forge a personal spiritual practice by connecting with the divine, nature, and their bodies.
Convergent
What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience by Tish Harrison Warren (May 12, $26, ISBN 978-0-593-72884-0) draws from ancient Christian practices for tips on weathering burnout, anxiety, and spiritual malaise.
DK
Shiva: God of Gods by Nilima Chitgopekar (May 12, $50, ISBN 979-8-217-13798-5) unpacks Shaivism’s symbols, history, and philosophy.
Eerdmans
All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians by Dominic Roser, David Zhang, and J.D. Bauman (Apr. 28, $29.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8028-8513-5) contends that believers can maximize their positive impact on the world by strategically donating to charity, choosing careers that honor God, and more.
Beyond Deconstruction: Building a More Expansive Faith by James F. McGrath (Feb. 3, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8028-8459-6) takes a “pensive” look at how “former Christian evangelicals can refashion their faith” through flexible practices like noticing the divine in nature, according to PW’s review.
Genealogy Theology: Exploring Family Lines and Spiritual Legacies by Frank G. Honeycutt (Mar. 10, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8028-8528-9) encourages readers to probe their family’s spiritual histories to better understand their own purpose.
FaithWords
Rediscovering the Forgotten You: Take Back Your Passion, Reignite Your Dreams, and Embrace the Life You Were Created to Live by Joel Osteen (Apr. 7, $29, ISBN 978-1-5460-0522-3) argues that Christians must embrace their brokenness before becoming the person God created them to be.
Unburdened: Finding Freedom From the Tyranny of Stress by Joyce Meyer (June 9, $12 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5460-1106-4) mines scripture for advice on implementing habits that reduce anxiety and prevent burnout.
Focus on the Family
Starting Strong: Discovering the Good That Money Can Do in Your Marriage by Matt Bell (June 9, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64607-191-3) outlines how couples can employ financial planning strategies that honor God.
Fordham Univ.
The Wounded Church: Tending to the Harm Within Catholicism by Annie Selak (June 2, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5315-1337-5) cites three core wounds—racism, sexism, and clericalism—that have damaged the church and shares suggestions for healing them.
Georgetown Univ.
The Problem of God: The Challenges of Faith, Religion, and Spirituality Today by Erin M. Cline (Mar. 2, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64712-685-8) draws from Christian, Daoist, Jewish, and Hindu traditions to explore diverse notions of belief, God, religious pluralism, and atheism.
HarperOne
God’s Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal by N.T. Wright (Feb. 17, $32.99, ISBN 978-0-06-256417-7) dismantles the idea that Christians’ ultimate purpose is to ascend to heaven and offers a more present-focused narrative that God created Earth for humans and his eventual return.
The God of Our Fathers: The Great Stories of the Bible by Aldo Cazzulo (May 12, $22.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-348908-0). These retellings of stories from the Hebrew Bible shed light on how scripture has shaped religious history and popular culture.
Harvard Univ.
Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History, edited by Emily Baum and Albert Wu (Apr. 7, $35 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-674-30340-9), explores why Chinese practices like divination and ancestor worship have survived despite the state’s attempts to stamp them out.
Herald
Grace over Guns: Pursuing Peace in a Militarized World by Ben Daniel (June 16, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5138-
1697-5) uses a pacifist Christian framework to condemn American military violence across the globe.
Hope for the Mission: Getting It Right in the Call to End Homelessness by Kevin Nye (Feb. 3, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5138-1694-4) considers how faith communities can fulfill the unique needs of unhoused communities, rather than focusing on their own spiritual priorities.
Hodder Faith
Good Faith by Angela Tilby (May 5, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-3998-0163-8) explores how the Church of England has shaped British life and contemplates how its traditions might be effectively passed on to future generations.
Inner Traditions
Lamed Vav and the Power of Mystical Kindness: Awakening to the Presence of the 36 Hidden Messengers by Edward Hoffman (Apr. 7, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88850-257-0) delineates the kabbalistic concept that 36 righteous individuals sustain humanity with their benevolence, and uses it to inspire readers to practice compassion.
IVP
How to Be a Christian Influencer: Making Social Media a Social Ministry by Jacqulyne Horbrook (Feb. 3, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5140-0992-5) explains how believers can utilize their social media platforms to spread the gospel.
To Live Well: Practical Wisdom for Moving Through Chaotic Times by Alan Noble (Apr. 28, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-5140-0224-7) shares seven spiritual virtues meant to help readers navigate an anxious and increasingly broken world.
Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things by Brian Zahnd (May 19, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-5140-0564-4) encourages believers to persevere through life’s injustices to reunite with Christ in heaven.
IVP Formatio
Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness by Hannah Miller King (Feb. 17, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5140-1114-0) uses the practice of communion to imagine a faith based in community and renewal.
Jewish Publication Society
God and the First Families: Parenting, Trauma, and Healing in the Book of Genesis by Stephen Spector (June 1, $26.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8276-1601-1) analyzes God’s evolving relationship with the people of Israel through the lens of different parenting styles.
Kregel
How To Stop Yelling Up the Stairs: Keeping Your Cool While Raising Your Kids by Janel Breitenstein (Apr. 21, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8254-5567-4) draws from scripture to outline a parenting philosophy centered on the healthy expression of emotions.
Lake Drive
Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One Knows by Melissa Duge Spiers (Mar. 31, $18.95
trade paper, ISBN 978-1-957687-73-5) chronicles how the author rebuilt her life after a traumatic Seventh Day Adventist upbringing rife with secrets and abuse.
Lexham
On the Face of the Deep: The Sea in Scripture by Linford Stutzman (Apr. 29, $24.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68359-
925-8) unpacks the role of the sea in the Bible, from the dominion of Israel’s enemies to a conduit for missionaries spreading the gospel.
Llewellyn
Slava! Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways by Anna Urošević Applegate (Feb. 8, $22.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-7387-8067-2) introduces the principles, rituals, and deities of the Eastern European spiritual tradition.
Media Lab
Gospel of Lies: Surviving and Resisting Evangelical Extremism by Promise Backlund (May 26, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-964487-55-7) offers advice for countering angry Christian rhetoric and navigating tough faith-based conversations.
Messenger Publications
The Sacramentality of Creation, edited by Stephen J. McKinney, Thomas O’Loughlin, and Beáta Táth (Apr. 30, $32.95 trade
paper, ISBN 978-1-78812-724-0), provides theologically based wisdom for combating environmental destruction.
Moody
Why Doesn’t God Answer My Prayers? A Biblical Guide to God’s Hidden Purposes by Erwin W. Lutzer (Feb. 3, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8024-3899-7) reassures Christians that God is working toward good during moments of apparent darkness.
Multnomah
Considering Sparrows: What Birds Teach Us About Who We Are, Where We’re Going, and the Joy of Following Jesus by Kevin Burrell (Mar. 24, $22 ISBN 979-8-217-15226-1) explores how birds can remind readers of God’s love and the beauty of his creation.
Unshakable Faith: How to Stand Firm in a Culture of Lies by Aaron Graham (May 12, $24 ISBN 979-8-217-15159-2) aims to
dismantle the notion that religion has become irrelevant to today’s increasingly secular society.
NavPress
Make Friends with Anyone: Practicing God’s Design for Real Friendship in a Lonely World by Wayne Francis (July 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89802-106-1) draws on biblical wisdom to advise
readers on maintaining close relationships.
Thomas Nelson
And She Got Up: Shattered by Loss, Restored by Jesus by Courtney Pray Duke (Feb. 24, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4003-5273-9). Recounting how faith helped her rebuild after being widowed at age 29, the author encourages readers to seek strength from God in moments of turmoil.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken: Fighting for Faith When You’re Falling Apart by Sydney Anne Bennett (Apr. 28, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4003-5049-0) details how the author struggled to maintain her faith after being disabled by a neurological disorder.
Orbis
The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis by Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Piqué (Mar. 25, $26 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-62698-664-0) traces the new pope’s rise to power.
Paulist
Clericalism: The Institutional Dimension of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis by C. Colt Anderson, with J.D. Long Garcia (Apr. 7, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8091-5780-8), investigates the structural flaws that perpetuated the sexual abuse crisis among Catholic clergy, and outlines a path forward informed by psychology, economics, and sociology.
Princeton Univ.
Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity by William Stell (May 12, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-26894-1) recovers the stories of forgotten evangelical activists who fought for queer acceptance in the 1970s and ’80s before being crowded out by the denomination’s homophobic majority.
Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World by Steven Weitzman (Feb. 3, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-27046-3) considers how the biblical story has been interpreted and reimagined across time and space, from medieval Jewish communities to Jim Crow–era Black writers.
Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship by Lila Corwin Berman (June 16, $32, ISBN 978-0-691-28020-2) tracks how legal debates about identity shaped Jewish rights and politics throughout the 20th century.
Reaktion
Antisemitisms: A History of Jew Hating by Sander L. Gilman (July 6, $27.50, ISBN 978-1-83639-180-7) explores how antisemitism has been harnessed throughout history to advance specific political and social objectives.
Red Wheel
Vibrate Higher: A Guide to Raising Your Frequency with the Four Elements by Julieta Suárez Valente (May 4, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-59003-581-8) contends that seekers can boost their mood, outlook, and openness to new opportunity by working with crystals, tarot, meditation rituals, and more.
Regnery Faith
Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today’s Women of Faith by Emma Waters (Mar. 24, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-5107-8353-9) spotlights such biblical figures as Jael, Esther, and Mary to outline a vision of Christian womanhood rooted in courage, discernment, and scriptural adherence.
Revell
Courageous Divorce: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Healing, Rebuilding, and Embracing an Abundant Life by Alisha Roth (Mar. 24, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4697-1) explains how Christian women can navigate divorce in a church culture that frequently disparages it.
The Wholehearted Way: Finding Peace After Life’s Heartbreaks, Disappointments, and Rejections by Peace Amadi (Mar. 24, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8007-4698-8) describes how faith can help believers find wholeness in the wake of hardships.
Tarcher
Beyond Wellness: How Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices Can Heal Us by Liz Bucar (Apr. 28, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-85497-6) aims to help readers better understand popular practices—like ayahuasca retreats and yoga—that have become divorced from their spiritual origins.
Temple Univ.
Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism by Zalman Newfield (Feb. 13, $28 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4399-2761-8)
chronicles the author’s departure from the close-knit Hasidic community of his youth and the eventual remaking of his relationship with Judaism.
Tyndale Momentum
Growing Up Saved: When Loving God Feels Like Losing Yourself by Kristen LaValley (Mar. 3, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4964-7856-6) recounts how the author rebuilt her faith after a toxic Pentecostal upbringing during which she struggled to conform to the church’s social standards.
Tyndale Refresh
The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery: Connecting Neuroscience and Faith to Radically Transform Your Life by W. Lee Warren (Feb. 3, $28.99, ISBN 979-8-4005-0988-9) contends that readers can reduce anxiety, trauma, and depression by focusing on God.
Univ. of Notre Dame
Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution by D.G. Hart (Apr. 1, $45, ISBN 978-0-268-21082-3) tracks how the growth of Presbyterianism laid the groundwork for revolutionary movements and the evolution of national identities from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Upper Room
As Yourself: The Sacred Work of Embodying Grace by Caroline Vogel (Mar. 1, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8358-2078-3) argues that believers must embrace God’s grace to love themselves and others.
Verso
The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters and Firebrands by Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone (May 19, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83674-175-6)
draws from the history of socialist Jewish resistance for lessons on combating present-day oppression.
W
Uncomplicate It: Permission to Enjoy God in Your Own Unique Way by Hosanna Wong (Feb. 3, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4003-4758-2) offers an “openhearted” invitation for believers to “use their unique qualities to connect with God in ways only they can,” per PW’s review.
Waterbrook
Uncluttered Faith: Own Less, Love More, and Make an Impact in Your World by Joshua Becker (Feb. 10, $27 ISBN 978-0-593-60353-6) invites believers to seek fulfilment in Jesus rather than their possessions.
Wayne State Univ.
Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor, edited by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, and Avinoam Patt (Feb. 17, $36.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8143-5259-5), traces shifting tides of Jewish humor around the world.
Weiser
Queer Saints: A Radical Guide to Magic, Miracles, and Modern Intercession by Antonio Pagliarulo (June 1, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-57863-907-6) spotlights an eclectic mix of “saints”—among them Francis of Assisi and David Bowie—from whom believers can seek protection and guidance.
Whitaker House
Sarah Young’s Journey to Jesus: A Brother’s Personal Remembrances by Timothy Kelly (May 26, $24.99, ISBN 979-8-88769-671-3) chronicles the faith journey that inspired late devotional author Sarah Young to write such titles as Jesus Calling, and considers her oeuvre’s impact.
When Mothering Is Hard and No One Sees: Where Gritty Meets Glorious in God’s Eternal Plan for Moms by Shalene Roberts (Apr. 21, $16.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88769-616-4) promises readers that the difficult work of motherhood is vital to Christ’s vision.
Worthy
Everyday Spiritual Habits: Small, Simple Ways to Transform Your Faith, Starting Now by Hanna Seymour (Feb. 3, $28, ISBN 979-1-5460-0937-5) advises Christian women on incorporating faith-based habits into their daily routines.
Yale Univ.
Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing by James K.A. Smith (Mar. 24, $28,
ISBN 978-0-300-27976-4) mines the lives of Christian mystics for wisdom on cultivating a spirituality rooted in love.
Zondervan
Heal Your Hurting Mind: Biblical Hope for Anxiety, Depression, Burnout, and the Emotions No One Talks About by Craig Groeschel (Feb. 17, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-310-36674-4). This “optimistic” guide explores “how readers can handle anger, trauma, and anxiety with a mix of faith-based and therapeutic interventions,” according to PW’s review.
Mercy King: How the Kindness of Jesus Heals Your Sin, Shame, and Weakness by Scott Sauls (June 2, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-310-36724-6) encourages believers to seek God’s grace during moments of crisis.
You’re So Strong: On Grief and Letting Go of My Favorite Compliment by Leslie Harter-Berg (Mar. 24, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-310-36934-9) recounts how the author dealt with the ups and downs of grief after being widowed and left a solo parent at the age of 29.
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