Books & Culture

May/June 2010 Issue

Volume 16, Number 3

July/August 2010 Issue
March/April 2010 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

All We Like Sheep

Roger Olsen

Randy Balmer’s brief history of American evangelicalism.

Agents of Influence

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

A Note to Our Readers

Susan Wise Bauer

The Real Ray Carver

Sara Miller

He didn’t need a lot of words to go deep.

How Poetry Began with Grief

Laurance Wieder

India’s earliest epic.

The Enlightenments

Daniel Ritchie

There were many.

Augustinian Politics

Charles Mathewes

Looking for common ground with liberalism.

The Story of a Marriage

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Jenny Sanford’s memoir.

Synoptic Sisters

Timothy Larsen

The twins who discovered an ancient Syriac version of the four gospels.

Mixed Message

Doug Howard

The testimony of a self-described former terrorist.

Love and Death

Crystal Downing

Photos by Kathy Hettinga.

Happy in the State of Denmark

C. John Sommerville

A society without God?

Going Incognito

Lauren F. Winner

Should Christians conceal their religious identity in the public square?

How Not to Change the World

A call to “faithful presence.”

Are You Experienced?

Christian Smith

Revisiting “religious experience.”

The Meaning of (Gestating) Life

Elrena Evans

Pregnancy in Israel and Japan.

The Accidental Activists

Jon A. Shields

An assumption-challenging study of the pro-life movement.

Ecumenical Saint

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

The improbable life of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

The KJV Effect

Mark Noll

American prose and the King James Bible.

Past Present

Alan Jacobs

What is historical fiction?

Smaller Families, Bigger Dreams

Elesha Coffman

Limiting family size in early America.

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