Turning Pages for Today’s Changing World

This fall, Church Publishing’s Morehouse imprint presents three books that invite us to reflect on what it means to live faithfully in complex times.

Is It God’s Will?, by acclaimed journalist and theologian Brandon Ambrosino, wrestles with making sense of divine agency in an age of deepening divisions, environmental and economic upheaval, and escalating unrest. Refusing easy answers, Ambrosino offers tools for facing world events with spiritual depth and a powerful understanding of God—not as a coercive power, but as a persuasive presence that can stir hope.

As immigration raids happen across the United States, Hope on the Border takes readers inside the most restrictive maximum security detention center in the country, a place where undocumented, unaccompanied children are held, many in isolation. Award-winning poet and teacher Seth Michelson draws on two decades of experience working with migrant families and undocumented minors, allowing them to tell their stories in their own words, in breathtaking poetry.

In Witness to Belief, Denzel Washington, Jane Goodall, Sam Waterston, Condoleezza Rice, Francis Collins, and other notable figures reveal what they rarely discuss publicly: the impact of their Christian faith on their lives.

Enjoy the excerpt below from author Russell J. Levenson Jr. as he provides a window into his book:

What follows is a collection of twelve conversations with people you are likely to know from a broad cross-section of vocations—actors, producers, a sports commentator, a singer-songwriter, a journalist, an admiral, a scientist, a naturalist, an ambassador, two former secretaries of state.

You will not find perfect people here, nor will you find people who have lived without the bruises, wounds and scars of life, and all of them would draw on their faith to get through the darkest moments of life. And while all of them have, in fact, accomplished and attained much, they have not failed to recognize the One from Whom all blessings flow—even, at times, the blessing of suffering.

I laughed with each one of them. I have listened to each one of them. I have learned from each one of them. I wept with some of them ... and I have prayed with each of them. As you will read here, what they have been given is a gift from God, and a gift they choose to use to bless the lives of others and the world in which we live…

I invite you to read Witness to Belief and see if God might very well show up for you in new ways, or deeper ways, or maybe even for the first time!