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Drumroll, please: Here are the winners of our annual CT Book Awards!
Analog is cool again. Gen Z and Gen Alpha Christians are unplugging to get closer to God.
Ancient authors remind us of the transformative love of Jesus, argues Nadya Williams in Christians Reading Classics.
Editor in chief Marvin Olasky shares some of his favorite book releases of 2025, from religion and history to baseball and birds.
From senior features editor Kate Lucky: In The New York Times’s recent episode about literary awards season in The Book Review Podcast, a panel of editors discusses accolades like the Nobel Prize, the Booker Prize, and the National Book Award and wonders whether they turn literature into a horse race. The host took an optimistic approach. “So much of our reading is solitary and compartmentalized,” he said. “I love these awards as not just a proclamation of ‘This is the best’ but as a bell to corral everyone.”
I think that’s a great framework for engaging with our CT Book Awards, announced today. By offering this list of notable titles in categories ranging from popular theology to kids’ books, we’re hoping to make our reading lives less lonely and more communal and to start ongoing conversations about the ideas shaping our faith. In other words, the fun doesn’t stop once the list is released. Time to start reading!
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Today in Christian History
December 2, 1697: St Paul’s Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is dedicated. It replaced a medieval cathedral at the site that had burned in the Great Fire of 1666.
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As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature “An American Deportation” as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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