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2021 Christian Book Award® program – Faith and Culture
2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award – Religion
2021 Outreach Resources of the Year – Christian Living
2021 Christianity Today Book Award – Beautiful Orthodoxy
2020 The Gospel Coalition Book Award – Popular Theology – Honorable Mention
2020 Emerging Public Intellectual Award
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. A key element in the fight for hope, he discovered, has long been the practice of Bible reading and interpretation that comes out of traditional Black churches. This ecclesial tradition is often disregarded or viewed with suspicion by much of the wider church and academy, but it has something vital to say.

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