Books & Culture

May/June 2013 Issue

Volume 19, Number 3

July/August 2013 Issue
March/April 2013 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

The Skeptical Believer

Stranger in a Strange Land: John Wilson

Lady Ise

Marly Youmans

Oh Happy Day

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

Mutual delight with God.

A Theodramatic Metaphysic

Stephen N. Williams

Attending to the character of biblical testimony.

Love Is Stronger than Debt

Eugene McCarraher

Against Chrapitalism.

Taste and See

The unpredictable impact of Jesus.

Informal Colloquies

Michael Robbins

The crumpled tissues and loose change of the vernacular.

Awesomely Alternate Randomnesses

John H. McWhorter

What we learn from California Indian languages.

The Subtleties of Spin

Alister Chapman

Cricket and the aftermath of colonialism.

Fathers and Daughters

Alan Jacobs

What is a “graphic novel”?

Charles Williams, Playwright

Philip Jenkins

A neglected aspect of the “other Inkling.”

Generation Whine

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Embedded reporting from the Millennial front.

“No Union with Slaveholders!”

Allen C. Guelzo

Slavery and the Constitution.

Far from Me

Laurance Wieder

Messianic unease.

Being Fair to Plato

Richard J. Mouw

About that “white grandfatherly God.”

Saints and Sisters

Agnes Howard

On female monasticism.

A Measure of Forgiveness

Helen Rittelmeyer

Memories of a British education in Kenya.

A Sheen on the Pulpit

Kirk Farney

Fulton J. Sheen, preacher par excellence.

The Real Thing

Crystal Downing

Or, Anna Karenina’s Silver Linings Playbook.

Josephus as a Pre-Raphaelite

Robert Gundry

The life of a “Jew among the Romans.”

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