The Marriage You Want: Moving Beyond Stereotypes for a Relationship Built on Scripture, New Data, and Emotional Health
Sheila Wray Gregoire and Keith Gregoire
Baker Books, 240 pages | Published March 11, 2025
Christian marriage guides frequently offer the one-size-fits-all advice that conforming to a singular view of biblical manhood or womanhood is the secret to a happy marriage. The Marriage You Want takes a data-driven approach to turn these stereotypes on their heads. Sheila Wray Gregoire (a researcher/speaker) and Keith Gregoire (a physician) share personal examples and case studies that are both practical and inspiring. They support these with research that debunks much of the traditional Christian relationship advice. Finally, we have a non-cringey relationship guide that pastors and counselors can offer to those in premarital counseling or those seeking spiritual support in their marriages.
Letting Go, Finding You: Uncover Your Truest Self through the Enneagram and Contemplation
Hunter Mobley
Broadleaf Books, 209 pages | Published May 13, 2025
Hunter Mobley merges the popularity of enneagram wisdom with a contemplative approach to discerning our truest selves. “We can’t do anything lasting from a posture of willfulness,” he writes. Instead, he invites us to receive God’s wisdom and to release that which does not serve us by understanding the virtues associated with our enneagram number. Letting Go, Finding You assumes some familiarity with the enneagram, and readers will benefit from knowing their own profile (or taking a free enneagram test online).
At the Feet of Jesus: A Guide to Encountering Christ in the Gospels
Bruce Hindmarsh and Carolyn Hindmarsh
InterVarsity Press, 112 pages | Published April 29, 2025
The Hindmarshes’ goal is lofty: to make Mary of Bethany’s experience available to us all. Their accessible approach, however, makes readers eager to create time and space to sit with Jesus, filled with faith, hope and love. At the Feet of Jesus is filled with scholarly insights, practical tips for setting the stage and reading Scripture thoughtfully and lyrical descriptions of the sights, sounds and smells Jesus and his disciples would have experienced when Mary and her siblings offered them hospitality — concluding with Mary’s extravagant gesture of anointing Jesus with fragrant oil. This guide is a welcome resource for small groups, ministry retreats or individuals looking to refresh their prayer life.
How to Teach Kids Theology: Deep Truths for Growing Faith
Sam Luce and Hunter Williams
New Growth Press, 208 pages | Published January 13, 2025
The premise of How to Teach Kids Theology is powerful: many of us have an underdeveloped appreciation of God, so the watered-down God we offer children and youth is underwhelming. Pastors Sam Luce and Hunter Williams urge us to proclaim Jesus as the cornerstone of our lives and to ensure that his importance is reflected in our curriculum and activities. The instructions for how to distill (rather than simplify) theological concepts are helpful for anyone crafting a “word for children” or vacation Bible school exercise. Busy children’s pastors and youth directors will find the sample lesson, reflection questions and other practical resources helpful; they may, however, find the outdated language (e.g., use of “man” to describe all people) off-putting.
Accompanying Disability: Caretaking, Family, and Faith
Topher Endress with John Endress
Westminster John Knox Press, 161 pages | Published April 7, 2025
Disability theology has its work cut out for it. First, it must overcome biblical examples that paint disability as a curse or punishment. Then it needs to support the church as we find new language to use for and with those with disabilities and their caregivers. Accompanying Disability is unique in this field because a quadriplegic father and his caregiver son tell their stories side by side. Neither Endress attempts to speak for the other; together they offer a language of accompaniment that avoids infantilizing the person with a disability or deifying the caregiver.
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