Coming in August from Zondervan Reflective: The Wisdom of Sleep: How Rest Reveals God's Truth and Revives Weary Souls.

My new book, co-edited with Ivan Mesa and featuring an array of expert contributors, looks at the challenges (and opportunities) facing Christians in the digital age.

Why did I order the levels of The Wisdom Pyramid the way that I did? Why did I put nature above books? Why books before beauty? What rationale drove the ordering of the levels?

Are you filling your heart and mind with healthy intakes? What sources are you listening to? Is your knowledge diet helping you become wise or leading you into foolishness?

I believe The Wisdom Pyramid will help anyone who reads it. But don’t just take it from me. Take it from the kind folks who endorsed the book.

These lists highlight some of my favorites in two categories: books I read in 2018 that were 1) released this year and 2) not released this year. Perhaps some of these will make it onto your bookshelf in 2019. I recommend them all!

One of the truisms that has guided me in my writing life and which I am more and more convinced of is this: good writers are good readers. Any creative person who hopes to produce something meaningful simply must be regularly filled, provoked, challenged and inspired by the works of others. For me this takes many forms (see my favorite music of the year here, and next week my favorite movies)

I try to read new books at least as much (and hopefully more) as I watch new films and television or listen to new music, and this year there were quite a few books that I loved or greatly admired. Below are my favorite books released in 2015 and then my favorite books that I read (not necessarily released this year) in 2015.

The following are five books that have either come out recently or will be released very soon. They are books that I think are particularly inspiring and motivating for those of us who may be in a transition moment in life but still doggedly in pursuit of the good life: living, growing, thinking, believing and questioning well.

One of the best ways to learn about the type of person someone is is by looking at the books that populate their bookshelves. Books, I've found, play a large role in shaping how any of us understand and inhabit our worlds--so naturally they are a good place to go when seeking to understand a subculture. For example, the following is a list of the types of books that define the Christian hipster subculture.