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Mennonite Brethren Herald again won awards for publishing success in 2004. “The Gospel according to Mel,” by David Eagle, won third place for Critical Review in the Evangelical Press Association annual judging. The judge wrote, “The review makes the critical case against The Passion with clearly reasoned, apt observations, while never ignoring the film’s obviously effective elements.”
In the annual Canadian Church Press awards, the Herald won a third place for the cover of the Easter issue designed by Lorie Mayer, featuring a paper cut by Japanese artist Gen Tsuboi; a second place for Vonnie Mostat’s “Please, never give up” in the personal experience category; a second for Harold Jantz’s opinion piece, “Should Christians try to influence public affairs?”; and a first place for the cover of our “Peace” issue, designed by Lorie Mayer and featuring an illustration by Winnipeg artist Roberta Fast. Comments by the judges included for Mostat: “Lively, humorous, touching,” and for Jantz: “You . . . courageously and articulately point out the strengths of the church in public role.” The judge wrote about the latter cover, “The reader is instantly drawn to the white dove, in this urban scene which gives an impression of hope.”
Christianity Today announced their 2005 book awards recently. The top 11 of the 327 nominated titles are the following:
- Apologetics/Evangelism: The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Toward God by Lee Strobel (Zondervan).
- Christian Living: The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others, by Scot McKnight (Paraclete Press).
- Biblical Studies: Africa and the Bible by Edwin M. Yamauchi (Baker).
- History/Biography: The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield, and the Wesleys by Mark A. Noll (IVP).
- Christianity and Culture: The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski (IVP).
- Missions/Global Affairs: Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach by Irving Hexham, Stephen Rost and John W. Morehead II, ed. (Kregel).
- The Church/Pastoral Leadership: Christ, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper: Recovering the Sacraments for Evangelical Worship by Leonard J. Vander Zee (IVP).
- And Reviewing Leadership: A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches by Robert Banks and Bernice M. Ledbetter (Baker).
- Fiction: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
- Spirituality: Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence by Ruth Halen Barton (IVP).
- Theology/Ethics: Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition by Hans Boersma (Baker).
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Amanda Falk, a 21-year-old singer from St. Pierre, Man., was voted New Artist of the Year at the 2005 SHAI Gospel Music Awards in Toronto.
—Avante Records, Family Life Network release
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