Books & Culture

September/October 2014 Issue

Volume 20, Number 5

November/December 2014 Issue
July/August 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

An African Jesus

Peter T. Chattaway

Reimagined as a political activist.

Advance Directive

Randall J. VanderMey

Latinity

Stranger in a Strange Land: William Griffin

The Noah Sphinx

Timothy Larsen

Britain’s fascination with Egyptology.

A Prophet with Attitude

LaVonne Neff

On Ellen Harmon White and Seventh-day Adventism.

“An Agile Absence on the Air”

Jane Zwart

Christian Wiman’s stringencies.

Poems for Inspirational Posters

Michael Robbins

A William Stafford centennial volume.

Shouts from Beneath the Burqa

Interview by Katelyn Beaty

Eliza Griswold’s translations of Afghan folk poems.

Missions and Modernity in Colonial Africa

David Hoekema

Most of what you think you know is wrong.

Filling the Void

Catherine Hervey

The South African writer Zakes Mda.

A Romantic Racial Identity

Lena Hill

On W. E. B. Du Bois

Putting the Newspaper in Its Place

David J. Davis

The long history of news media.

“Now Everything Is Easy Cause of You?”

Sarah Ruden

The survival of writers in the digital age.

Signs of God’s Faithfulness

Interview by Todd C. Ream

A conversation with Michael Le Roy.

Evangelicalism Seen Afresh

Darren Dochuk

The “born-again” years.

Church as a Shared Meal

Rachel Marie Stone

“You can’t franchise the Kingdom of God.”

Spirit, Power, and Understanding

Candy Gunther Brown

Integrating heart and mind.

Charles Taylor Explained

Robert Joustra

Clarifying the “secular.”

The French Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

Dale Van Kley

A cautionary lesson for Christian historians.

A Secular Age 2.0

Matthew J. Milliner

Thomas Pfau and the irreducible mystery of personhood.

Awareness: Raised

D. L. Mayfield

Trafficking into forced labor.

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