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Books & Culture, March/April 2003
RELIGION & THEOLOGY
The Land | by Gerald McDermott
Evangelicals and Israel.
Features
THE ARTS
The Hymn | by Mark Noll
How ordinary belivers found their voice through song.
RELIGION & THEOLOGY
The Re-Invention of Love | by Alan Jacobs
Piecing together the ancient poetic fragments of Sappho.
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Translated by Anne Carson
RELIGION & THEOLOGY
The Shocking Truth About John Wesley | by John D. Spalding
A visit to the cradle of Methodism.
CURRENT ISSUES
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way | by Douglas LeBlanc
Seeking substance and servanthood in a self-help genre.
CURRENT ISSUES
My Friend, the Spy | by Jim Ohlson
An FBI colleague on the life of Robert Hanssen.
LITERATURE
Let Us Prey | by C. Christopher Hook
The menace of nanotechnology in storytelling and science.
• Prey by Michael Crichton
PHILOSOPHY
Desperately Wicked | by Alan Wolfe
Reckoning with evil.
CURRENT ISSUES
America the Ambiguous | by Philip Jenkins
The paradoxes of a chosen nation.
• Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World by Jedediah Purdy
Science Pages
THE SCIENCE PAGES
Reading God's Two Books | by William R. Shea
Reconciling the written Word with the starry skies.
• God's Two Books: Copernician Cosmology and Biblical Interpetation in Early Modern Science by Kenneth Howell
THE ARTS
Acting Christian | by Arthur Menke
Nuanced testimony in a new mission field: the theater.
Dogma: THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
RELIGION & THEOLOGY
The Disappearance of Punishment | by Hans Boersma
Metaphors, models, and the meaning of the atonement.
HISTORY
What Happened in Salem? | by Thomas S. Kidd
The little-known role of Indian wars in an infamous historical episode.
HISTORY
Not-So-Poor Richard | by David A. Skeel, Jr.
Tracing market ideology in Protestant evangelical thought.
• God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790–1860 edited by Mark Noll
HISTORY
Bankrupt Nation | by Stephen Smith
The prevalence of debt in an oasis of prosperity.
• Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America by David A. Skeel, Jr.
• Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence by Bruce H. Mann
RELIGION & THEOLOGY
The Pull | by Betty Carter
Two lives drawn to God.
• Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discerment, and Moments of Grace by Nora Gallagher
• A Sorrowful Joy by Albert Raboteau
HISTORY
Railroads and Civil Rights | by David Chappell
Race and labor aboard the iron horse.
• Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality by Eric Arnesen
THE ARTS
A Bloody Shame | by Eric Metaxas
Gangs of New York and the apotheosis of Martin Scorsese.
• Gangs of New York
THE ARTS
Hungry Eye | by Ralph C. Wood
The Two Towers and the seductiveness of spectacle.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
THE ARTS
Skeptical Resurrection | by Phil Christman
A sci-fi—and psy-fi—journey into space.
• Solaris
THE ARTS
Heaven for a Terrorist | by Agnieszka Tennant
How are our actions judged?
• Heaven
Departments
THE GROVES OF ACADEME
The Groves of Academe | by Richard Mouw
Arguing About God, Arguing with God: Remembering Lew Smedes
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