Publishers Weekly - 27.01.2020

Spring Religion & Spirituality

CONVERGENT

Words of Life: Seeing the Ten Commandments Through

the Eyes of Jesus by Adam Hamilton (June 9, $26, ISBN 978-

1-5247-6054-0). Hamilton, senior pastor of the Church of the

Resurrection in Kansas City, considers the Ten Commandments

in their historical context, looking at the meaning of each com-

mandment in Hebrew and unpacking how Jesus reinterpreted

them.

CROSSWAY

Enough About Me: Find Lasting

Joy in the Age of Self by Jen Oshman

(Mar. 3, $14.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-

1-4335-6599-1). Oshman, coplanter of

Redemption Parker, an Acts29 church

in Colorado, asks Christian women to

look away from self-improvement in

their search for life and joy, instead pro-

viding a path that leads back to Jesus.

DUKE UNIV.

The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley (Apr. 17, $24.95

trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-0824-8) is an epistolary critique

of current society through a black, queer lens. Crawley meditates

on the interrelation of black and queer life with the black

church, theology, and mysticism.

ECW

Gideon’s Bible by Rick and Gideon Salutin, illus. by Dusan

Petricˇic (May 5, $24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77041-485-3).

Novelist Rick Salutin, in a conversation with his son Gideon,

explores the origins and lessons of the Hebrew Bible.

EERDMANS

Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us About

Freedom by Kelley Nikondeha (Mar. 24, $17.99 trade paper,

ISBN 978-0-8028-6429-1). Nikondeha, codirector of the

Communities of Hope community development enterprise in

Burundi, considers the women of the Old Testament, including

the mothers of Moses, Miriam, and Zipporah, and connects their

struggle against the oppressive regime of the Pharaoh with

injustices in modern times.

FLATIRON

Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life

of My Dreams (and Twenty Lessons I Learned Along the

Way) by Yvonne Orji (May 5, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-250-

24703-2). Orji interprets biblical metaphors to fit current times

and provides 20 life lessons based in scripture on topics including

saving money and opening up to humility.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

No Such Thing as Can’t: A Triumphant Story of Faith and

STRIVING FOR

HEALTHY CHURCHES

in a Complicated Age

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