Books & Culture

July/August 2014 Issue

Volume 20, Number 4

September/October 2014 Issue
May/June 2014 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

“Doing God”

Christianity in the British public sphere.

A Novel of the Great Awakening

18th-century Northampton, reanimated.

“Things Were Happening to Her”

Emily Gould’s tribute to friendship.

How It Will Be

Dennis O’Driscoll, taxman and poet.

Coffee with Harper Lee

A would-be biographer becomes a friend.

Redefining Religious Fiction

Christopher Beha and William Giraldi.

Theological Seitz in Paul’s Letter to the Colossians

Biblical interpretation and the “rule of faith.”

A Vast Horde of Souls

Sara Miles and “Ashes to Go.”

Divine Logic

Living the liturgical year.

“For Better or for Worse”

A caregiver’s unvarnished chronicle.

Bad Connection

The social lives of networked teens.

Born to Trouble

Raising a child with Down syndome.

Three Little Bops

The lost world of popular jazz.

Rebellious Joy

The life and legacy of Louis Armstrong.

Academic Divisions

The lost history of philology.

Making Meanings of Martyrdom

The cult of “the North American martyrs.”

Their Blood Cries Out

On violence against Christians.

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