The ECPA 2025 Christian Book Award Winners
Good books alert!
The ECPA has named the winners of its annual Christian Book Awards. Divided into twelve categories, the award recognizes the highest quality in Christian books and Bibles. One title is chosen as the Christian Book of the Year® to represent the year’s best book or Bible for its literary merit and impact. I will highlight a few of them and you can see the whole list here.
40 Questions About Pentecostalism
It’s great seeing a fellow 40 Questions book nominated (as we were last year) and this time winning the category!
Ghosted
Congrats to Nancy French for her award-winning memoir of being sidelined, or ghosted, by her evangelical community when she and her husband opposed Trump.
Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace
How did a church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus—the Prince of Peace—become a breeding ground for violent extremism? Author Elizabeth Neumann draws on her experience as a homeland security advisor for George W. Bush. She explores the forces within American society that have encouraged the radicalization of white supremacist, anti-government and other far-right terrorists by co-opting Christian symbols and culture and perverting the faith’s teachings.
Rather timely!
Luke in the Land: Walking with Jesus in His First-Century World
This 7-session Bible study challenges the way we read the accounts of Jesus. McClelland supplements this workbook with teaching videos that take us to locations in Israel like Bethlehem, the Sea of Galilee, Gethsemane, Jerusalem, and the road to Emmaus. Along the way, we see how Jesus, the Messiah, brought his kingdom to earth for everybody.
Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Comer believes that living by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of Life—a set of practices and relational rhythms that slow us down and open up space in our daily lives for God to do what only God can do—transforms the deepest parts of us to become like him.
These and other selections were judged by multiple readers with expertise in the Christian market, ministry, and church life. The fiction counterpart to the Christian Book Awards is the Christy Awards, in which publishers submit their top selections in each category (historical, contemporary, short form, etc). Those awards are announced in early November.
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