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John Wilson is editor of Books & Culture, a bimonthly review that engages the contemporary world from a Christian perspective in a lively mix of essays, memoirs, interviews, excerpts from new and forthcoming books and other regular features. Wilson is also editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and editor of The Best Christian Writing 2004.

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Books & Culture's Book of the Week: One-Hit Wonder
The long swansong of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Jeremy Lott | posted 7/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: The Catholic Church's Regime Change
Would lay power really augur a new epoch of openness and honesty?

Eugene McCarraher | posted 7/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: The Terror of the Therapeutic
"Margaret Atwood's new novel considers the price we may pay for looking to technology to remedy our ills, personal and social"

Stephen Dunning | posted 7/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Divinely Decreed?
Re-fighting the Battle of Gettysburg

Preston Jones | posted 6/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture Corner: True Believers
Incoming! The McSweeney's crowd launches a new monthly.

Jeremy Lott | posted 6/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture's Books of Week: Why There Will Be Sidewalks in Heaven
Isaiah and the New Urbanism.

Nathan Bierma | posted 6/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: Buffy and the Meaning of Life
Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally gets some respect. Too bad the life is slowly ebbing out of the show

Jeremy Lott | posted 5/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture Corner: Are Movies Fundamentally Inferior to Books?
Two responses to Ralph Wood's claim that biblical tradition elevates word over picture.

posted 5/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture' s Book of the Week: Facing the Past
Günter Grass and the debate over Germans as victims in World War II.

Gregor Thuswaldner | posted 5/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: Why We Are in Iraq
"Michael Kelly, R.I.P"

John Wilson | posted 4/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: A Story Darwin Might Love
"Brian McLaren's evolutionary interpretation of the faith promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is good enough."

Mark Galli | posted 4/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture Corner: Bird Watching with Anne Lamott
"A PBS documentary enters the unruly, grace-filled world of the author of Traveling Mercies"

Agnieszka Tennant | posted 4/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: Getting Ahead in Order to Serve
Why Christian ambition isn't an oxymoron

Beth Henary | posted 4/01/2003 12:00AM

"Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: Oh, Brother"
"Most everyone agrees that the James ossuary is a significant find. Ask what it means, however …"

Jeremy Lott | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture Corner: Whose Reality TV?
"Tune in this week to Frederick Wiseman's PBS documentary, Domestic Violence, to see some real survivors."

Nathan Bierma | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture' s Book of the Week: Diagnosing The Doctor
"A new assessment of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher"

Mark A. Noll | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture' s Book of the Week: Vanity Fair
A chronicler of religion plays the straight man

Jeremy Lott | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: Lessons in Nation-Building From a Fledgling Democracy
Shays's Rebellion describes a time when revolution was no longer cool

Preston Jones | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture Corner: Letter from Spain
A former resident returns to find that it is still stony ground for the Gospel

Jeff M. Sellers | posted 3/01/2003 12:00AM

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Getting Beyond Victimology
A provocative collection of essays for the black silent majority.

Preston Jones | posted 2/01/2003 12:00AM

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The Impossibility of Thanksgiving
Why gratefulness is more gift than duty.

Mark Galli | posted 11/25/2009 10:45AM

My Top 5 Movies on Thankfulness

Annie Young Frisbie, CT Movies critic and blogger at SuperFastReader.com | posted 11/25/2009 11:14AM

The Green Baptist
Jonathan Merritt seeks a renewed approach to American society.

Tim Stafford | posted 11/24/2009 11:31AM

What Does the Manhattan Declaration Really Mean?
Also: advocacy groups gear up for the Christmas shopping season with politics and compassion.

Tobin Grant | posted 11/24/2009 12:16PM

'A Voice for Sanity'
J. Lee Grady doesn't want your gold. The journalist wants a 'Holy Ghost housecleaning' of the charismatic movement.

Sarah Pulliam Bailey | posted 11/23/2009 01:11PM

Modern-Day Mordecai
When he's away from his day job, Charisma editor J. Lee Grady is probably working on a project to empower women and confront abuse.

Sarah Pulliam Bailey | posted 11/23/2009 01:06PM

The Next Redesign
Look for Christianity Today's new and improved presence online.

Ted Olsen | posted 11/23/2009 01:43PM

Trees Of Life
How Floresta integrates development discipleship, and creation care overseas.

Deann Alford in the Dominican Republic | posted 11/20/2009 10:56AM

A Grounded Faith
Mexican ministry branches out beyond tree planting to bring healing to souls in a barren land.

Jeremy Weber in Oaxaca, Mexico | posted 11/06/2009 01:56PM

Will Abortion Derail Health Care Reform?
The Senate moves closer to a vote on health care reform, groups argue over presidential appointments, and the Family Research Council issues a correction.

Tobin Grant | posted 11/20/2009 11:05AM

Cleaning Up After Others
A&E's The Cleaner is about tough love and redemption.

Todd Hertz | posted 11/19/2009 10:19AM

'O, Evangelicos!'
We need not abandon our name—just live up to it.

Philip Yancey | posted 11/18/2009 10:31AM

An Edwards-ian Thanksgiving
In November 1739, Jonathan Edwards preached not freedom from want, but freedom from demons.

Elesha Coffman | posted 11/25/2009 11:15PM

Poll: Will you do something for Thanksgiving with people from your church?

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