‘Christianity Today’ Announces 2021 Book Awards
Christianity Today’s 2021 Book Awards, announced in December, recognize 29 books published between Nov. 1, 2019 and Oct. 31, 2020 in 14 categories, including winners and runners up. The winners represent "a healthy balance between current events and eternal verities," according to the magazine. See a complete list below:
Apologetics/Evangelism: Telling a Better Story: How to Talk about God in a Skeptical Age by Joshua D. Chatraw (Zondervan)
Award of Merit: Why Does God Care who I Sleep with? by Sam Allberry (The Good Book Company)
Biblical Studies: Reading with the Grain of Scripture by Richard B. Hays (Eerdmans)
Award of Merit: A Boundless God: The Spirit according to the Old Testament by Jack Levison (Baker Academic)
Children & Youth: Courageous World Changers: 50 True Stories of Daring Women of God by Shirley Raye Redmond (Harvest House)
Award of Merit: Jesus and the Very Big Surprise: A True Story About Jesus, His Return, and How to Be Ready by Randall Goodgame (The Good Book Company)
Christian Living/Discipleship: Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe (IVP)
Award of Merit: Created to Draw Near: Our Life as God’s Royal Priests by Edward T. Welch (Crossway)
The Church/Pastoral Leadership: A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church by Megan Hill (Crossway)
Award of Merit: Diary of a Pastor’s Soul: The Holy Moments in a Life of Ministry by M. Craig Barnes (Brazos)
CT Women: Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by Jasmine L. Holmes (IVP)
Award of Merit: Handle with Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry by Lore Ferguson Wilbert (B&H)
Culture and the Arts: The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty by Martin Schleske (Eerdmans)
Award of Merit: Bezalel’s Body: The Death of God and the Birth of Art by Katie Kresser (Cascade)
Fiction: Eden Mine by S. M. Hulse (FSG)
Award of Merit: God’s Liar by Thom Satterlee (Slant)
History/Biography: Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather by Peter J. Thuesen (OUP)
Award of Merit: They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty by John G. Turner (Yale)
Missions/Global Church: A Public Missiology: How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World by Gregg Okesson (Baker Academic)
Award of Merit: A Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity’s Global Identity by Vince L. Bantu (IVP Academic)
Politics and Public Life: Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World by David VanDrunen (Zondervan Academic)
Award of Merit: Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry (OUP)
Spiritual Formation: The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus by Rich Villodas (WaterBrook)
Award of Merit (Tie): The Way Up is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself by Marlena Graves (IVP) and Soul Care in African American Practice by Barbara L. Peacock (IVP)
Theology/Ethics: “He Descended to the Dead”: An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday by Matthew Y. Emerson (IVP Academic)
Award of Merit: The Holy Spirit (Theology for the People of God) by Gregg Allison and Andreas J. Kostenberger (B&H Academic)
The Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year: Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley (IVP Academic)
Award of Merit: Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley by Harold L. Senkbeil (Lexham)
