July/August 2002 Issue

Face to face with slavery

Mixedblood Trickster

Neither syntax nor semantics maps the full richness of everyday speech.

William James and consumer religion

How to think with the mind of Christ.

A conversation with philosopher Charles Taylor

A theology of reading.

Three novels that get out and about

What I learned from reading 34 Christian novels

Stephen Carter’s first novel offers a compelling mystery

Guns and the English

In search of Native America

After September 11, books about Islam and the Middle East shot to the top of the bestseller charts. American readers sought to learn more about a religion that had inspired such zealotry, however misguided, and about a portion of the world that erupts in violence almost daily. Several months later, Books & Culture editor John Wilson and regular contributor Philip Yancey found themselves on a panel discussing a sampling of books that shed light on these issues.

Computer Control, Part 2

A widely cited 1987 study by James Davison Hunter claimed that students at evangelical colleges were becoming increasingly secularized and abandoning their orthodox faith commitments—and predicted that this trend would continue. A new study reviews the ev

A conversation with Francis Fukuyama

The future of Christianity

A new film version of The Count of Monte Cristo emphasizes faith, but with a strange twist.

A movie that takes evil seriously

Andrew Jackson and Indian removal

A story.

Indians in the Movies