Denise Hildreth Jones's SECRETS OVER SWEET TEA, in which everything seems as sweet as a cold glass of sweet tea, until secrets begin to be revealed and hearts are forced to confront the truth buried inside. To be released silultaneously with Denise's new nonfiction book, RECLAIMING YOUR HEART, that speaks to many of the issues in her new novel, to Tyndale House.

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Former ER physician and now one of America's foremost creation care leaders Matthew Sleeth's 24/6: A PRESCRIPTION FOR HEALTH, in which Sleeth argues for a healthier, more God-centered rhythm in a digitally-dazed, always-on world, to Tyndale.

Founder of the Gay Christian Network Justin Lee's TORN: RESCUING THE GOSPEL FROM THE GAYS-VS.-CHRISTIANS DEBATE, as families and churches are torn apart by the culture war over homosexuality, this book offers a viable solution for both sides by graciously combining an evangelical passion for Scripture with an engrossing first-person account of how the modern church is missing the mark, to Jericho Books/Hachette.

Debbie Blue's CONSIDER THE BIRDS: WHAT OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS CAN TEACH US ABOUT OURSELVES, EACH OTHER, AND GOD. People identify with birds.  We watch them, research them, tell stories about them, and in the process we explore our humanity and inhumanity. They’re funny and dirty, noble and shifty—much like us. Debbie Blue writes about 10 birds mentioned in the Bible, birds that are significant for their stories in the text and/or what they also have represented for humanity  (across culture, Christian tradition, art, and in the contemporary psyche). With these minor characters at the forefront of our imaginations, we may see things we have not seen before in the biblical narrative, and, perhaps, ourselves, to Abingdon Press.

Frank Viola's GOD'S FAVORITE PLACE, in which the author explains that the town of Bethany was the only place Jesus was readily accepted while on Earth, and that we too can become "God's favorite place" by learning some key lessons from the lives of the Bethany residents, to David C. Cook, in a three-book deal.

Professor of religion Sharon Baker's REDEEMING GOD: RETHINKING EVERYTHING YOU'VE BEEN TAUGHT ABOUT SALVATION AND THE CROSS, which offers an answer to those who struggle with the notion of a God who orchestrated the murder of his own son as the only way to forgive humanity, instead offering a candid, biblical, and theologically sound reinterpretation of the atonement that dispels notions of divine violence, to Westminster John Knox.

Jon Sweeney's THE POPE WHO QUIT: THE BIZARRE LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH THAT BROUGHT THE MIDDLE AGES TO AN END, telling the story of Peter the Hermit -- the 85-year-old man who in 1294 was elected Pope Celestine V against his will -- his bizarre five months of ruling western Christendom, his decision to quit the papacy (as no other pope has voluntarily done since) and the strange circumstances and mysterious way in which he died, to Doubleday.


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