Books & Culture

January/February 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 1

March/April 2012 Issue
November/December 2011 Issue

Books & Culture was a bimonthly review that engaged the contemporary world from a Christian perspective. Every issue of Books & Culture contained in-depth reviews of books that merit critical attention, as well as shorter notices of significant new titles. It was published six times a year by Christianity Today from 1995 to 2016.

Articles in this Issue

Truly Great

Stranger in a Strange Land: Mark Noll

Arthur Holmes: A Life Well-Lived

Stranger in a Strange Land: C. Stephen Evans

To Be a Bird

Luci Shaw

An Evening with Two Palestinian Poets

Paul Willis

Ghassan Zaqtan and Fady Joudah.

Talking About REAL Marriage

Susan Wise Bauer

Advice from the Driscolls.

Practicing Trust

Anna Broadway

The self-giving ethos of biblical sexuality.

What Lasts?

Sarah Ruden

On the editor and critic Roger Kimball.

Chesterton vs. Hitchens

Ralph C. Wood

The need for worthy opponents.

Deep Attention

Lauren F. Winner

On reading.

The Big Chill

Matt Reynolds

Apostasy and blasphemy codes.

“An Open Wound of Love”

Jason Byassee

Richard Foster on meditative prayer.

Blind-Sided at the Box Office

Patton Dodd

Protestants and movies.

Evangelicals on the Basel Trail

Reckoning with Karl Barth.

Happy Endings

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Caitlin Moran on how to be a woman.

Vintage Moltmann

Stephen N. Williams

Where does our hope lie?

In Praise of Lament

Lauren F. Winner

How early Protestants understood suffering.

How to Talk About Hell

And why we must.

Just-So Stories

Alan Jacobs

Loose talk about evolution and storytelling.

So What Is the Historian’s Vocation?

Eric Miller, John Fea, Jay Green

Bait and Switch

Alvin Plantinga

Sam Harris on free will.

Objects of Wonder

C. Stephen Evans

How credible are accounts of miracles?

The Kids Aren’t All Right

Anna Broadway

A report on “the dark side of emerging adulthood.”

Stark’s Sampler

Timothy Larsen

Church history for the chronically misinformed.

A School of Wisdom

Lenore T. Ealy

Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent

Richard J. Mouw

A biography of the Book of Mormon.

An Invitation to the Dance

Sharon Skeel

Ballet in a lively chronicle.

Lost Treasures

John H. McWhorter

Rewriting the history of American musical theater.

Frederick the Bruce

Robert Gundry

The immensely productive life of F. F. Bruce.

Missing Persons

Virginia Stem Owens

The Rapture? The Sudden Departure? Or what?

Unlikely Seer

David Skeel

The poetry of Eugenio Montale.

Living Well and Speaking Well

Craig Mattson

Public speaking and mental hygiene.

Back to the Future

Philip Jenkins

Rediscovering “The Space Merchants.”

Does the Lord Reign?

Peter S. Hawkins

Poets attending to the Psalms.

Those Things Tumbling Around Inside

Interview by Jane Zwart

A conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer.

Playgrounds, Kitchens, Spider Webs

Thom Satterlee

The poetry of Inger Christensen.

The Delight of Meeting Miss Austen Again

Jennifer L. Holberg

Time does not wither …

Revisiting the “Cavalier”

Jeffrey Galbraith

The Roundheads’ foes.

‘In Media Res’

Teju Cole’s stunning first novel.

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