Books & Culture

January/February 2016 Issue

Volume 22, Number 1

March/April 2016 Issue
November/December 2015 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

Three Poems

Aaron Belz

From Nature to Creation

Stranger in a Strange Land: Jeffrey Bilbro

Unpromising Patch of Ground?

Bruce Herman

Joel Sheesley’s “Lincoln Marsh Journal.”

A Woman Above

Stephen Westich

Recalling the work of Hildreth Meière.

A Highly Imaginative Affair

James McCullough

Trevor Hart’s theology of art.

Finnegan’s Waves and Sternbach’s Riders

Bobby Jamieson

Surfin’ safari.

Artists & Thieves

Betty Smartt Carter

How to get away without setting off alarms.

At Home Everywhere and Nowhere

D. L. Mayfield

A memoir in fragments.

When Is a Poem Finished?

Thom Satterlee

On Jeanne Murray Walker.

Against Consolation

Alissa Wilkinson

The world as Joan Didion sees it.

Day of Reckoning

Sarah Ruden

South Africa’s prospects.

Utilitarians in Love

Timothy Larsen

The offense of unrepentant chastity.

The Early Church on War and Killing

Ronald J. Sider

Distinguishing speculation from historical fact.

Paying Attention to Caregiving

Andrea Palpant Dilley

Note: the Church has been working on this project for centuries.

For Sale: Britannia

Alister Chapman

How Thatcherite privatization has played out.

The Unexamined Grace

Scot McKnight

What God’s gift entails.

Grace Redefined

Wesley Hill

The disruptive Christ-event.

All Hands on Deck

Michael A. Skaggs

New beginnings for Catholic-Jewish relations.

Persuasion and Public Theology

James K. A. Smith

Unapologetic Canadianness keeps the conversation lively.

Repristinating Brunner

Stephen N. Williams

Not least for his medicinal efficacy.

Marriage and the Church

Anna Sutherland

A new study focuses on African Americans and Latinos.

Happy Being a None

Naomi Schaefer Riley

The sanctity of personal worldview choice.

Where Individuals Come From

Alan Jacobs

Never mind nominalism: look to the bishops & lawyers.

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