Hip-hop has crossed boundaries in recent years—from comic books (Into the Spiderverse) to Broadway (Hamilton). For over fifty years, hip-hop has grown as a cultural icon. There’s no escaping it.How does hip-hop fit within Christianity? Can hip-hop beats be sanctified? Can perverse lyrics serve the kingdom? In other words, “What has Jerusalem to do with the Bronx, or Compton, or the South Side of Chicago, or the west side of Houston?” Senior scholars, emerging scho...

**Christianity Today Book Award Finalist (Bible/Devotional) • Cultivate a faith shaped by Christ’s presence in every season with this unique blend of devotional reflections, guided by Claude Atcho, a seasoned pastor.“Walking us through the cycles of light, life, and love, Atcho shows us how to measure our days by Christ so that we might gain wisdom.”—Jessica Hooten Wilson, Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and author of The Scandal of Holines...

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)Midwest Book Review 2023****Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy)Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American l...

**Cultivate a faith shaped by Christ’s presence in every season with this unique blend of devotional reflections, guided by Claude Atcho, a seasoned pastor.“Walking us through the cycles of light, life, and love, Atcho shows us how to measure our days by Christ so that we might gain wisdom.”—Jessica Hooten Wilson, Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and author of The Scandal of Holiness**More than just marking time, the church calendar invi...

Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature.Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to ten seminal texts of twentieth-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theol...