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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Add booksandculture-html@lists.christianitytoday.com to your address book manage your subscriptions | subscribe to this free newsletter
Greetings from Pasadena, where Wendy and I lived for more than twenty years and where I spent Mother's Day with my mom and brother. (Wendy was at home in Wheaton, where three of our four children were able to join her for the day.) We spent part of Mother's Day at Dodger Stadium, watching the Dodgers play the Astros (and listening to Vin Scully on my brother's tiny radio). This year the Dodgers are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their move to Los Angeles. (My brother, Rick, and I saw our first major league game in 1958 in the Colosseum, where the team played before Dodger Stadium was built. Yes, fifty years ago. Fifty years?) Later this week I will make a Books & Culture visit to Biola University, which has expanded and changed enormously since I last visited the campus, about twenty years ago, and then I will head to Santa Cruz for a conference. The May/June issue of Books & Culture includes three articles about reading the Bible, each from a vey different angle. One is Jason Byassee's essay-review "Reading with the Saints," on the art of biblical interpretation, posted this week. (Jason, who has done splendid work at The Christian Century, has accepted a job at Duke University and is bound for North Carolina with Jaylynn—an ordained Methodist pastor, as Jason is too—and their three sweet boys, Jack, Sam, and Will. Wendy and I will miss them all mightily. But I trust Jason will still find time now and then to write for B&C. In fact, he has a big piece on prisons forthcoming in our pages.) Also newly posted from May/June: John Turner (whose book on Bill Bright and Campus Crusade is reviewed elsewhere in this issue) reviews Randall Stephens' account of the holiness movement and Pentecostalism in the American South; and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh reviews Matt Sutton's biography of Aimee Semple McPherson. Thanks for reading.  John Wilson Editor, Books & Culture To reply to this newsletter: booksandculture@christianitytoday.com advertisement
RELIGION & THEOLOGY Reading with the Saints The art of biblical interpretation. One Sunday, my Methodist minister wife made a mistake in preparation. She didn't glance at the assigned psalm text before she stood up, in worship, to lead the church in reading responsively. More
HISTORY | RELIGION & THEOLOGY Perfect Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South. HISTORY | RELIGION & THEOLOGY Cult of Personality A valuable new biography of Aimee Semple McPherson. promotion
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