Mini-reviews of Gilead: A Novel, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, You're Not Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion, and Beyond Jabez: Expanding Your Borders.

Author says Muslims are troubled by our morals more than our politics.

Blink makes the case for intuitive judgment.

An engaging theologian questions the Jesus of modern scholars.

A history of the American movie industry.

Mini-reviews of Calvinism in The Las Vegas Airport, Street Saints, Heaven and, The Seven Last Words from the Cross.

A judgmental assessment of judgmentalism is, predictably, full of contradictions.

Author stands by critical book.

State of Fear is about more than controlling the weather. Duh, it's media ecology.

Set in Mexico, Anita Desai's latest novel is a compact but multilayered tale of pilgrimage.

Two books document the dangers of mixing church and state.

John Gardner, Martin Amis, and the ethics of the novel.

A well-known psychiatrist describes and analyzes two exorcisms.

Possession is real, says Scott Peck, but we have more to fear from the evil already inside us.

Left Behind coauthor challenges Tyndale over Last Disciple.

The conclusion of our seasonal roundup—and, at last, truly, this time we mean it, The Worst Book of the Year.

The author of Shadowmancer tells another spiritual tale between angels and demons.

John Piper urges living for the glory of Christ.

More books to note from 2004.