We cannot have a “life we don’t have to heal from.” But we can know that healing is possible.

We need books that, instead of preparing us to go toe-to-toe with one another, show us how to walk shoulder-to-shoulder as we receive Jesus’s gospel of grace and welcome the kingdom of God.

Here are some questions I have personally found to be helpful to consider when reading any book on a hot-button cultural topic.

“Loving our enemies” is not a mere lens through which to see the world, but a mandate Jesus actually means us to follow. Jesus shows us the depth of his meaning as he embodies his own words on the Cross, saying of those those who falsely accused, mocked, tortured, and murdered him: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”