Christy Award

The 2000 Christy Awards

The Christy Awards began in the year 2000 with the goal of publicizing and honoring the very best of the previous year in Christian fiction. Named after the 1967 novel Christy by Catherine Marshall—sometimes considered […]

Christy Award

A New Song – Jan Karon

The inaugural award for contemporary Christian fiction might as well be for the first five of Jan Karon’s Mitford books. Karon began writing her stories of Father Tim, a humorous and easy-going Episcopal priest in […]

Fiction

Rift – Steven James

Sahara O’Saughnessy’s life is in shambles. Her father is dead and she’s the one responsible. Not directly, not directly enough. And the way they left things, the final things she said to him, the things […]

Academic

Ministers of Propaganda – Scott M. Coley

The inside flap of Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right reads in large, emblazoned letters: “Good evangelical Christians are Republicans. It seems like it’s always been that way. That […]

Children's Books

The Last Tiger – Petr Horacek

The Last Tiger reads like a forgotten Aesop’s fairy tale. Short, simple, evocative, and with an animal friend as its protagonist, The Last Tiger is a straightforward parable about the danger of pride and the […]

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Non-Fiction

Empowered to Repair – Brenda Salter-McNeil

Reconciliation isn’t enough—or rather, reconciliation without reparation is incomplete. Think of it, to reconcile means to bring two disparate things back together. A connection has been broken and reconciliation reforges the connection. But what if […]