Author(s): Claude Atcho
Publisher: Brazos Press
Price: $1.99       (Ends Aug 17)

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)
Midwest Book Review 2023Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction – Religion/Philosophy)

Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature.

Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to 10 seminal texts of 20th-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Richard Wright’s Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on (more…)

On Reading Well
Author(s): Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher: Brazos Press
Price: $5.99 (Aug 9-10)

An acclaimed author helps readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing.

Reading for the Love of God
Author(s): Jessica Hooten Wilson
Publisher: Brazos Press
Price: $3.99 (Aug 9-10)

“A timely and accessible primer.”–Christian Century

What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but also a spiritual practice that deepens our faith?

In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that–and then shows readers how to reap the spiritual benefits of reading. She argues that the simple act of reading can help us learn to pray well, love our neighbor, be contemplative, practice humility, and disentangle ourselves from contemporary idols.

This accessible and engaging guide outlines several ways Christian thinkers–including Augustine, Julian of Norwich, Frederick Douglass, and Dorothy L. Sayers–approached the act of reading. It also includes useful special features such as suggested reading lists, guided practices for approaching texts, and tips for meditating on specific texts or Bible passages.

By learning to read for the love of God, readers will discover not only a renewed love of reading but also a new, vital spiritual practice to deepen their walk with God.