The 2009 Christianity Today book awards have been announced! The editors choose the top books in each category from 436 submissions.

• Fiction: Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Theology/Ethics: People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology by Michael S. Horton
• Spirituality: Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris
• Missions/Global Affairs: Transforming Worldviews: An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change by Paul G. Hiebert
• The Church/Pastoral Leadership: Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
• History/Biography: Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America by John G. Turner
• Christian Living: Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing by Emmanuel Katongole, Chris Rice
• Christianity and Culture: Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling Andy Crouch
• Apologetics/Evangelism: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
• Biblical Studies: Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus by Klyne R. Snodgrass

Intervarsity Press also reported today that they nabbed two top honors and one merit award. On a personal note, I’m about 3/4 of the way through Culture Making and enjoying it thoroughly. The Reason for God is sitting in my “to-read” pile.

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