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1 week ago | 
baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura
The Upper Room, a popular daily devotional guide, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Although the printed devotional dates to 1935, the idea goes back to 1929, when Francis Craig sought to encourage people in their daily walk after the great stock market failure. Francis was a Sunday School teacher at Travis Park Methodist Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. She urged her pastor, Paul Kern, to write a collection of devotionals.
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2 weeks ago | 
crosswalk.com | Maina Mwaura
To many in the Body of Christ, David Jeremiah is known for many things; however, being a fiction writer isn't one of them. In his new book Vanished, Jeremiah attempts to do whatever is needed to reach an audience that may have never read one of his books. According to Jeremiah, half of all readers primarily read fiction books, which, for him, is the main reason why he set out to do something that he had never done before.
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3 weeks ago | 
baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes stories change people, and he hopes the stories in his new book, Heaven Help Us, will convince others that lives of service can mend a fractured nation. When the idea first surfaced, Kasich thought he would convene theologians to define belief. After a few fruitless meetings, however, a friend sent him in a different direction — toward the lives of ordinary people doing the work.
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1 month ago | 
baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura
Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn feels like she has been around the table in Washington, D.C., history and has met important people along the way she would count as friends. Quinn’s late husband, Ben Bradlee, was the influential Washington Post editor during the Watergate scandal. Some credited the paper’s reporting with ousting Richard Nixon as president.
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1 month ago | 
baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura
When Cristina Rathbone decided to head to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, she believed God was calling her there. What happened there is told in her new book, The Asylum Seekers. Working with marginalized people was nothing new to her. “I was leaving the community of homeless folks I had birthed in downtown Boston in a Christian community named Manor,” she explained in an interview.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | Maina Mwaura
Speaker and author Jada Edwards had always seen herself as a neighborly person, until one day she had an encounter with God concerning how she treated her husband, Conway. In her new book, A New Way to Love Your Neighbor, Jada lays out the plan for how God calls us to not only like our neighbors and our family members but to truly love them the way that He does. Jada is the wife of Pastor Conway Edwards, and they both lead the growing One Community Church in Dallas.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | Maina Mwaura
When former Governor John Kasich set out to write a new book, he initially turned to theologians for inspiration. But along the way, he discovered that while theologians are remarkable, there's no substitute for learning from those in the field who do the work firsthand. Kasich was the 69th governor of Ohio and was a presidential candidate in the 2016 presidential primaries.
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1 month ago | 
baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura
Pastor, author and activist Brandan Robertson had no desire to write another book when he was approached by his publisher to write on being queer and Christian. However, the result surprisingly meets the unexpected moment we’re in. In Queer & Christian, Robertson shares his own story along with advice on how others in the LGBTQ community can reclaim the Bible and their faith. Sections include “Wrestling with the Bible,””Reclaiming the Bible” and “Seeing Ourselves in Scripture,” among others.
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1 month ago | 
urbanfaith.com | Maina Mwaura |Urban Faith
Tamika Mallory was raised in activism as her parents worked with Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. She was also raised in the church, taking seriously the role that her faith community played in advocating for justice and shaping people’s lives. She is known for her activism for black women in a world where civil rights are being threatened more every day. Her memoir: I Lived to Tell The Story shares her story in a moment where her story is more important than ever.
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1 month ago | 
crosswalk.com | Maina Mwaura
Maina MwauraIn his latest book, Seeing the Supernatural, bestselling author and former atheist Lee Strobel investigates the evidence for supernatural... Updated May 01, 2025Many have come to know Lee Strobel as the journalist who investigated Christianity and found Jesus along the way, then chronicled his journey through his best-selling book Case for Christ. Strobel is clear that for him, Jesus changed his life, and he wants the world to know about what Christ can do in anyone's life.
