Perrysburg resident Marlena Graves has won Christianity Today’s 2021 Award of Merit in Spiritual Formation for her book, “The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself.”

Published by InterVarsity Press last year, it was the November 2020 selection for the U.S. Catholic Book Club and was named as one of Outreach Magazine’s Also Recommended resources for 2021.

“The Way Up is Down “ is b…