Two (Very Different!) New Books on Our Political Moment
A Video Review of
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around:
How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
Justin E. Giboney
Hardcover: IVP, 2025
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and
Nervous Systems:
Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church, and Politics
Sara Billups
Paperback: Brazos Press, 2025
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Video description:
These two new books bring very different reflections to our political moment. Justin Giboney helps us learn from the Christians in the Civil Rights movement, how they maintained a prophetic distance from political culture, a willingness to critique all sides, and a deep formation in scripture and Christian practice. Sara Billups reflects on the personal impact of anxiety, individually as well as corporately. She writes beautifully on the ways anxiety moves through us, through the church, and especially throughout our political culture. Both books are worth reading, possibly for very different reasons. Here are some of my thoughts…..
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around
05:39 – Nervous Systems
Joel Wentz
Joel Wentz is currently the Executive Pastor at Missio Dei Church in Portland, Maine. He previously served in college campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In addition to reading and writing, his passions include tabletop gaming, music, and coffee. His favorite book genres are epic fantasy and epic theology. He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and son, and his personal writing and podcast are at: joelwentz.com
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