Alternative band Half•Alive’s sophomore effort delivers on cool sounds and poetic lyrics—but it lacks the sense of hope that buoyed their first album.

What could have been the takedown of a real-life faith-healing scandal becomes instead an unlikely conversion story in 1992’s Leap of Faith.

Tyler Childers’s newest album builds up a joyful noise with multiple versions of old classic hymns, original songs, and the songwriter’s own hillbilly universalist perspective.

If God loves this physical, here-and-now world and is continually at work renewing and transforming it, we should, too.

Once again, the Fare Forward editors offer you the (unexpected) favorites we discovered during the year past. If you stumble across them too, we recommend picking them up!

A long-ago winner of the Newbery Medal, Rabbit Hill deserves a place on our shelves and in our hearts.

More than a simple re-writing of the Cinderella story, Ella Enchanted offers an object lesson in what it means to be truly obedient.

George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind can bear many a long, slow, careful re-reading.

The Animorphs series refused to shy away from the most heartbreaking and emotionally complex parts of reality.

Justin Ariel Bailey’s newest book takes a look at Christian cultural engagement and finds it wanting. By Alex Sosler