GROVE CITY — Books by two Grove City College professors were selected for Christianity Today’s 2022 Book Awards.

“Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News” by Jeffrey L. Bilbro, associate professor of English, earned an award of merit in the Culture and Arts category, and “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution” by Carl R. Trueman, professor of biblical and religious studies, was a finalist in the Politics & Public Life category.

Christianity Today’s editors said the awards recognize “the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought and culture’ and “represent some of the year’s most exemplary Christian thinking.”

“Reading the Times” was published this summer, just as Bilbro was beginning his first year at the college.

The book lays out the case that “we are being not merely informed but also formed” by our news diet to the point that our news consumption can shape how our brains function.

Trueman’s “Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” has driven a cultural conversation since it was published a year ago. The book examines how the modern conception of identity — individualistic, secular and inextricably tied to sex — developed and is now fueling a spiritual, theological and cultural crisis.

“Reading the Times” and “Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” are available at bookstores and online.