Essential books

Cover Story in the October 18, 2011 issue

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Job and His Friends, oil on canvas, 1869.

Our fall books issue includes the following annotated lists of top titles in a few specific subject areas, selected by experts in the field:

Marti J. Steussy on the book of Job

S. Mark Heim on atonement

Karen-Marie Yust on children's ministry

This article appears in the October 18, 2011 issue.

A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

A new database of more than 900 biblical translations presents a prism of cultures, languages, and meanings.

Tom Long’s invigorating new book empowers preachers to preach on and with the parables of Jesus.

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