Books & Culture

May/June 1999 Issue

Volume 5, Number 3

July/August 1999 Issue
March/April 1999 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

Gender Divided

James E. Mann, Jr.

Why We Need Less Privacy

Interview by Michael Cromartie

Amitai Etzioni advocates limits on privacy for the common good.

Whither Theology?

Rodney Clapp

Stranger in a Strange Land

John Wilson, Editor

No More Disembodied Minds

David N. Livingstone

Continental Gifts

Interview by Karl Giberson and Donald Yerxa

Saigon Stories

Greg Metzger

Looking for family values? Try postwar Vietnam.

Corporate-sponsored Spontaneity

Susan Wise Bauer

The marketing of Alanis Morissette.

For God and Country, Ambivalently

Richard Pierard

American Christians and the military.

Rockett, Lara, and Barbie

Lauren F. Winner

The newest computer game protagonists—and customers—are girls.

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