Thanks to all our readers who voted for their favorite new books of 2025 in our recent poll!
After tallying up the results, we are delighted to announce three award-winning books…
*** The Winner:
Josh Hayden
Paperback: IVP, 2025.
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Many churches are struggling to connect with their communities and are facing a decline. But there’s hope! God is inviting His church to be reborn from the inside out, transforming into a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to their neighborhoods.
Using inspiring vision, practical tools, and field-tested methods, pastor Joshua Hayden offers church leaders solutions for resurrecting their congregations.
If you’re a church leader longing to bring your declining church back from the brink, Remissioning Church is your essential companion that outlines the path of inside-out transformation through discipleship while focusing on serving your neighbors and the world.
God is inviting your church to a new beginning. Remissioning Church is the guide you need to answer that call and lead your congregation into a future filled with purpose and mission.
*** Runner Up:
Dorothy Littell Greco
Paperback: Zondervan, 2025
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If we hope to fight and eventually heal from misogyny, we must first be able to identify and understand it.
Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well in today’s culture—often in ways that are more subtle and more insidious than the outright sexism of the past, and in spaces that we overlook or excuse as normative.
Misogyny has shape-shifted through the generations while maintaining a consistent through-line: it blinds individuals and cultures from seeing women as equal image-bearers, fosters hierarchies rather than partnerships, disdains vulnerability, and prevents all of us—women and men alike—from fully thriving.
In For the Love of Women Dorothy Littell Greco draws on in-depth research, interviews, biblical concepts, and vulnerable personal experience to explore how misogyny continues to impact six spheres of contemporary culture:
- Healthcare
- Government
- The workplace
- Media and entertainment
- The church
- Intimate relationships
While recent movements succeeded in raising consciousness and initiating important changes connected to misogynistic practices, alarming trends and rhetoric are on the rise in America today. We still have a lot of work to do—and the battle is more urgent than ever.
Like other deeply rooted, systemic injustices, misogyny is neither morally neutral nor random. It’s pernicious and calculated. For the Love of Women is for anyone who wants to educate, inspire, and empower themselves and women collectively to affect real change for everyone’s benefit.
*** Honorable Mention:
Jonathan P. Walton
Paperback: IVP, 2025
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Build sacred rhythms for rested, sustainable justice―where beauty and resistance naturally flow
Many today are caught in cycles of outrage and exhaustion while trying to stay sane and engaged. Is there a different way? How can you pursue justice, work towards a renewed world, and sustain your faith without burning out?
In this spiritually rich guidebook, Jonathan Walton offers a transformative rule of life―an ancient spiritual practice reimagined for today’s weary believers. His framework roots authentic action in deep, restorative rest, creating enduring rhythms that connect inner renewal with meaningful engagement in a broken world. Drawing from desert spirituality and the wisdom of organizers, Walton provides the spiritual scaffolding needed to sustain both interior formation and outward engagement. These practices and frameworks show you how to live a life so rooted that your pursuit of justice flows from a place of authentic restfulness, not reactivity.
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C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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