Books & Culture

March/April 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 2

May/June 2012 Issue
January/February 2012 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

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Phase

Hannah Stephenson

Listening to Chinese Christians

Tim Stafford

A fresh report.

So Blessed a Liturgy

Alan Jacobs

The Book of Common Prayer.

John Stott: A Catholic Reflection

Thomas Howard

The mystery of the Church.

Arabian Nightmares

Hannah Faith Notess

Craig Thompson’s “Habibi.”

A Translator on Translation

Sarah Ruden

Does it lead to world peace?

At Death’s Altar

Philip Jenkins

Santa Muerte and her devotees.

Preparing for 2017

Thomas Albert Howard

How should we commemorate the Reformation?

Where the Rot Started?

Dale Van Kley

Brad Gregory’s “Unintended Reformation.”

Giordano Bruno Superstar

Brad S. Gregory

Ahead of his time.

Divorce and the Congregation

Janel Curry, David Crump, Debra Freeberg, Cynthia Kok, Christina Van Dyke, and James Vanden Bosch

Practical wisdom informed by biblical teaching.

Sin and Health

Evangelicals, weight loss, and sexual reorientation.

Game On

Kevin Schut

Board games revisited.

Tedium + Valor

Enforcing abolition.

The Naval War of 1812

Donald A. Yerxa

Good reading for the bicentennial.

Enigmatic Testimony

Otto Selles

The life & work of Irène Némirovsky.

Fighting < Writing

Christina Bieber Lake

A memoir by Andre Dubus III.

A Prelude to Dante

Jessica Hooten

A. N. Wilson is your guide.

Black Elk Speaks

Laurance Wieder

Recommended Reading

Jennifer L. Holberg

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