Book Two is OFFICIALLY on its way!
Let's goooooooooooo
Hey all, I’m so happy to get to make this announcement.
Yesterday, I signed a Publishing Agreement with Herald Press/MennoMedia (the same great team that published my first book, Grace Can Lead Us Home) to produce my second book.
This book is tentatively titled:
Rescuing the Mission: Renewing and Reimagining the Christian Call to End Homelessness.
Here is the synopsis for the book:
Homelessness remains one of America’s most discussed and deliberated crises. Myriad intersecting factors–skyrocketing housing costs, a deficit in affordable units nationwide, broken systems surrounding mental health and substance use, and reduced services from state and local governments–have led to U.S. homelessness being at its highest in recorded history.
The good news is that more than ever, people of faith are galvanized and energized to do something about homelessness in their communities and in the name of God… but they are often unsure exactly what to do. There are many voices in the field advocating for various approaches, including historic gospel rescue missions, which often position themselves against best practices. Must we choose between being faith-based and evidence-based?
In this challenging and inspiring book, author and homeless services advocate Kevin Nye examines the past, present, and future of the gospel rescue mission, offering critical analysis and reflection on the ways it perpetuates homelessness instead of ending it.
But this book is not simply an indictment of what we’ve done wrong. Hope and resurrection remain at the forefront as the book celebrates the many unsung faith-based programs that have emerged in recent years that offer new inspiration. Across the country, churches and Christians have been faithfully answering the call in their communities in ways that align with broader efforts to successfully end homelessness. Kevin shines a much-needed light on these efforts and the people behind them.
Through storytelling, interviews, research, and personal reflection, Kevin implores us to look for wineskins that can hold the new wine we are encountering. This may mean leaving behind old ways, perhaps leaving behind the Mission, in order to rescue the real mission: loving our unhoused neighbors in ways that bring us all into fullness and flourishing.
The book is slated for release in early 2026. If you want to support this project (and I hope you do!), the best way you can do that is to follow along here on Substack. The next six months or so will just be me writing, writing, and writing. Around the Fall, some exciting things will happen: the book will go up for preorder, I will be looking to assemble a Launch Team, and so, so much more. This book will need champions —which so many of you already are for my work — to have the impact that I know it can have.
I would love to hear from you!
Are you excited about this book? What kinds of questions would you hope to have answered by a book like this? What would you like to see celebrated? What do you think is worthy of critique that goes too often unmentioned?
Let me know in the comments!
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Epic news, Kevin!!
Yes!!!!!!!