March 2023 | Bellingham WA – With great excitement, Lexham Press announces two finalists in the Foreword INDIES awards.Foreword INDIES honor “the very best” of independent presses. Winners of each Foreword INDIES category will be announced June 15th, 2023.
2022 Finalist for Religion:
Jesus and Gender: Living as Sisters and Brothers in Christ by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher. Drawing from Scripture and experience, Fitzpatrick and Schumacher show how Jesus’s example speaks to all areas of our lives as men and women, including vocation, marriage, parenting, friendships, and relating to each other as sisters and brothers in Christ. Real-life testimonies from a variety of Christians—including Christine Caine, Justin and Lindsey Holcomb, Karen Swallow Prior, and others—show a variety of men and women freed to pursue their gifts for God’s glory.
In their book, Fitzpatrick and Schumacher share, “The Bible teaches that only one can quench the desire to define ourselves, our lives, the way we think is best, and he is the humble King who used his own power to serve others (not himself) and then died. Is is only as we learn that his way really is the only way to true freedom and peace that we will find our thirst for independence and authority quieted by his love” (pp. 12).
2022 Finalist for History:
The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union by Matthew Heise. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German-Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution.
V’yacheslav Horpynchuk, bishop of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church, said that The Gates of Hell “opens us to the treasures of the martyrs—their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ—and it teaches us to learn from their lives good lessons of faithfulness in persecutions,” and that, “The Gates of Hell helps us also to recognize the signs of the time, so that we are not lulled by songs of the world and the devil and caught in their traps unprepared.”
Two books from Lexham Press were also recently highlighted in Outreach Magazine’s Resources of the Year.
- Virtuous Persuasion: A Theology of Christian Mission by Michael Niebauer for the Mission and Cross-Cultural Resource of the Year
- The Apostles Creed: For All God’s Children (A FatCat Book) by Ben Myers and illustrated by Natasha Kennedy for the Youth and Kids Resource of the Year.
Lexham Press is committed to excellent publishing that loves the church, loves the faith, and loves the Word, drawing from the Christian tradition and the global church to provide resources for pastors, scholars, parents, and students of the Bible. As part of the Faithlife Corporation (the makers of Logos Bible Software), Lexham Press seeks to increase biblical literacy, thoughtful reflection, and faithful Christian action around the world.
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