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John Wilson is editor of Books & Culture, a bimonthly review that engages the contemporary world from a Christian perspective in a lively mix of essays, memoirs, interviews, excerpts from new and forthcoming books and other regular features. Wilson is also editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and editor of The Best Christian Writing 2004.
Dining Dilemmas
How shall we then eat?
by Cindy Crosby
posted 06/27/2006 09:30 a.m.
Incorrigibly Bookish
Michael Dirda on reading and life.
Reviewed by Rachel DiCarlo
posted 06/20/2006 09:30 a.m.
The Not-So-Evil Empire
A report on The Historical Society's conference earlier this month.
by John Wilson
posted 06/13/2006 09:30 a.m.
Very Important Fiction
The Gospel according to The New York Times Book Review.
by John Wilson
posted 05/23/2006 09:30 a.m.
Back to the Garden
Digging in the dirt as spiritual formation.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
posted 05/16/2006 09:30 a.m.
Words Made Flesh
Calvin College's 2006 Festival of Faith & Writing.
by John Wilson
posted 04/25/2006 09:30 a.m.
Betrayed Again
The Gospel of Judas Roadshow.
Reviewed by John Wilson
posted 04/18/2006 11:30 a.m.
American Theocrat
Richard John Neuhaus, Catholic political ambitions, and the evangelical pawns.
by John Wilson
posted 04/11/2006 09:30 a.m.
Was George Washington a Christian?
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Reviewed by Al Zambone
posted 04/04/2006 09:30 a.m.
The Mystery of the Numbers
B&C's annual baseball preview, 2006 edition.
by Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/21/2006 09:30 a.m.
Passionately Ambivalent
Christians in the art world.
Reviewed by Daniel A. Siedell
posted 02/14/2006 09:30 a.m.
Books & Culture Web Exclusive
Worship—What We've Learned
A report from the Calvin Symposium.
by Nathan Bierma
posted 01/31/2006 09:00 a.m.
Making—and Breaking—Vows
A compelling memoir from the son of a priest and a former nun.
Reviewed by Jenny Schroedel
posted 01/17/2006 09:30 a.m.
Coming to a Bookstore Near You
Marsden and Hart, Noll and Stout, and more.
by John Wilson
posted 01/10/2006 09:00 a.m.
Ring Out the Old Year
Some highly subjective awards for 2005.
by John Wilson
posted 01/04/2006 09:15 a.m.
Books & Culture's Top Ten Movies
We open the New Year with a look back at the films of 2005. Here are the Top Ten lists of B&C regulars Roy Anker and Peter Chattaway.
posted 01/04/2006 09:15 a.m.
Not Just Looking
Books for the eye.
by John Wilson
posted 12/27/2005 09:45 a.m.
The Top Ten Books of 2005
A charming bedside miscellany, a new novel by P. D. James, and much more.
by John Wilson
posted 12/20/2005 09:30 a.m.
Books & Culture Web Exclusive
Truth, Christmas, and the Eucharist
Why I didn't like the hymns and praise songs we were singing—and why I was missing the point.
by Kevin Timpe
posted 12/20/2005 09:30 a.m.
How to Survive a Bookalanche
Some more keepers from 2005.
by John Wilson
posted 12/13/2005 09:00 a.m.
'Tis the Season for Books (And Lists of Books)
Part one of our 2005 roundup.
by John Wilson
posted 12/06/2005 09:00 a.m.
Taizé in the Fall
A parable of community.
by Otto Selles
posted 11/29/2005 09:00 a.m.
'Have Mercy on Me, O God'
A report from AAR/SBL.
by John Wilson
posted 11/22/2005 09:00 a.m.
The Shrine Next Door
A superb study of Chinese popular religion helps to set the context for the appeal of Christianity in China today.
Reviewed by Wright Doyle
posted 11/08/2005 09:00 a.m.
Can't We Just Have a Good Argument?
Lessons in "respectful conversation."
by John Wilson
posted 11/01/2005 10:00 a.m.
Heavenly Real Estate
A geography of art in New York at the midpoint of the 20th century.
Reviewed by Daniel A. Siedell
posted 10/18/2005 09:00 a.m.
Narnia Etc.
A chronicle of reading.
by John Wilson
posted 10/11/2005 09:30 a.m.
How Wide the Divide?
A proposal for compromise between "value evangelicals" and "legal secularists" on church-state issues.
Reviewed by Thomas C. Berg
posted 09/13/2005 09:30 a.m.
Poet with Three Heads Talks with King Solomon
Conversation touches on Hebrew parallelism, marriage, and the making of many books.
by D.S. Martin
posted 08/30/2005 09:30 a.m.
Continental Christophobia Cubed
Europe's rejection of its Christian heritage.
Reviewed by Daniel Gallagher
posted 08/16/2005 09:00 a.m.
Everyday Transfiguration
A new book of poems by Paul Mariani, illustrated by Barry Moser.
Reviewed by D.S. Martin
posted 08/09/2005 08:45 a.m.
How to Think the Unthinkable
The lessons of Herman Kahn.
Reviewed by Andrew Wilson
posted 08/02/2005 09:00 a.m.
With God on Our Side
David McCullough's account of the pivotal year 1776 has resonance for Americans in 2005.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 07/19/2005 09:45 a.m.
The Rich Are Different—and Not So Different—from Us
Think you're burned out on memoirs? Read this book.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 06/28/2005 09:30 a.m.
A Grief Observed
Exploring the valley of the shadow in two literary lives.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
posted 06/13/2005 09:00 a.m.
The Mind and Soul of Combat
Perhaps war really is hell.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 06/07/2005 09:30 a.m.
The Universal Language
If Latin died in our mouths, we'd just stop talking.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 05/24/2005 09:00 a.m
At Home in the Dark
The first new book of poems in almost twenty years from Rod Jellema.
Reviewed by D. S. Martin
posted 05/17/2005 09:00 a.m
"Taken Up in Glory"
The Ascension has been forgotten in many Protestant churches, jettisoning an essential part of the Christian story.
by John Wilson
posted 05/10/2005 09:00 a.m.
Making Believe
Bedtime stories for grown-ups.
Reviewed by Rachel DiCarlo
posted 05/03/2005 09:00 a.m.
Looking for God on the Holy Mountain
A journey to Mount Athos.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 04/26/2005 09:30 a.m.
The Words of the Word
Two sharply contrasting perspectives on Bible translation.
Reviewed by Nathan Bierma
posted 04/19/2005 09:30 a.m.
Divine Comedies
A report on Baylor's Art & Soul conference, version 2005.
By John Wilson
posted 04/12/2005 09:30 a.m.
Unbelievable
Religion is really, really bad for you.
Reviewed by Matthew Simpson
posted 04/05/2005 09:00 a.m.
This Land Is Whose Land?
An impassioned plea on behalf of the "caribou people" in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the land they have inhabited for nearly 20,000 years.
Reviewed by Larry Schweiger
posted 03/22/2005 09:00 a.m.
All in Her Head
How a chronic pain sufferer found a little bit of strength in a lot of weakness.
Reviewed by Agnieszka Tennant
posted 03/15/2005 09:00 a.m.
My Likeness, My Brother
A powerful autobiographical work from a prizewinning creator of comics in France.
Reviewed by Andrew Wilson
posted 03/08/2005 09:30 a.m.
Looking for Yogi
The 2005 Spring Training preview.
By Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/01/2005 09:30 a.m.
Dreams for Sale
A history of the American movie industry.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 02/15/2005 09:15 a.m.
Wayfaring Strangers
Set in Mexico, Anita Desai's latest novel is a compact but multilayered tale of pilgrimage.
Reviewed by Rachel DiCarlo
posted 02/01/2005 9:00 a.m.
What Do You Mean, 'Moral' Fiction?
John Gardner, Martin Amis, and the ethics of the novel.
Yellow Dog, reviewed by Philip Christman
posted 01/25/2005 10:00 a.m.
Booking Ahead
The conclusion of our seasonal roundup—and, at last, truly, this time we mean it, The Worst Book of the Year.
By John Wilson
posted 01/18/2005 9:00 a.m.
Taking the T.U.L.I.P. Out of the Garden
Relating Calvinism to "the complexities of contemporary life."
Reviewed by Nathan Bierma
posted 01/18/2005 9:00 a.m.
From the Big Bang to my Office
More books to note from 2004.
By John Wilson
posted 01/11/2005 9:00 a.m.
The Top Ten Books of 2004
And a warning about the risks of reading.
By John Wilson
posted 12/28/2004 10:00 a.m.
Can We Talk?
A project sponsored by Gordon College's Center for Christian Studies offers models for constructive engagement across lines of division.
By John Wilson
posted 12/21/2004 9:00 a.m.
Modern, All Too Modern
Tom Wolfe's new novel, largely reviewed as a satiric report on the sexual mores of today's college students, is fundamentally about the nature of the human will.
Reviewed by S. T. Karnick
posted 12/14/04 9:00 a.m.
Unfashionably Good
A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.
Reviewed by Lauren F. Winner
posted 12/07/04 9:30 a.m.
Communicating Communication
A roundup from the National Communication Association's annual convention.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 11/30/04 10:00 a.m.
"Summer's Ebullient Finale"
A richly varied anthology offers a "spiritual biography" of autumn.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 11/16/04 9:30 a.m.
Autumn Books
Some that stand out in this season's plenty.
By John Wilson
posted 11/16/04 9:30 a.m.
Reaching the Light
A review of On Broken Legs: A Shattered Life, a Search for God, a Miracle That Met Me in a Cave in Assisi.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 11/09/04 9:00 a.m.
The Prayers of a Self-Governing People
A psalm for Election Day.
By Lucas E. Morel
posted 11/01/04 9:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: What's Love Got to Do with It?
Susan Howatch's new novel explores the transformation of sexual attraction to sacrificial love.
Reviewed by Karen L. Maudlin
posted 10/26/04 9:00 a.m.
In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Remembering a philosopher who never forgot about death.
By James K.A. Smith
posted 10/19/04 9:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: Whose Independence?
All the Founding Fathers of America celebrated "independence," but what the word meant depended on who was speaking.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 10/12/04 8:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: Darkness Visible
An unsparing new memoir by the author of Slackjaw.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 10/05/04 9:30 a.m.
After Worldview?
A lively conference offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the concept of "worldview," with both advocates and dissenters represented.
By John Wilson
posted 09/28/04 9:00 a.m.
Book of the Week: A Forgotten Founder's Fatherhood
Race, nature, and patriarchy meet in Rhys Isaac's biography of early American diarist Landon Carter.
By Albert Louis Zambone
posted 09/21/04 9:00 a.m.
Book of the Week: The Great American Hustle
The first volume of an ambitious new history of America highlights the engine of "worldly ideals"—and the role of evangelical religion in creating a distinctive American identity.
Reviewed by Albert Keith Whitaker
posted 09/14/04 8:30 p.m.
The Poet Who Remembered
Poland (mostly) honors Czeslaw Milosz upon his death.
By Agnieszka Tennant
posted 09/07/04 9:00 a.m.
Book of the Week: Be Careful What You Pray For
The strange tale of the controversial Bishop Pike and his fatal quest for relevance.
Reviewed by Michael G. Maudlin
posted 08/31/04 9:00 a.m.
Book 'Em!
The concluding installment of our three-part midyear book roundup.
By John Wilson
posted 08/24/04 8:00 a.m.
Book of the Week: Real Fantasy
The first installment in a new Tolkien-inspired series shows genuine promise.
Reviewed by Newlyn Allison
posted 08/17/04 9:30 a.m.
(Not Just) Summer Reading
Part 2 of our midyear report on outstanding books.
By John Wilson
posted 08/17/04 9:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: 'Be Happy!'
How the ancient Olympics differed from the modern spectacle.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 08/10/04 9:00 a.m.
We've Got Books
The first installment of our new midyear book report.
By John Wilson
posted 08/10/04 9:00 a.m.
Book of the Week: Rediscovering 'Husbandry'
What Colonial farmers have to teach us about living with the land.
By Eric Miller
posted 08/03/04 8:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: China's Spiritual Hunger
The lessons of Falun Gong.
Reviewed by Joy Lo Cheung
posted 07/27/04 8:30 a.m.
Book of the Week: Ambiguous Redemption
A riveting memoir by the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
Reviewed by Rachel DiCarlo
posted 07/20/2004 12:01 a.m.
Tending the Garden
Evangelicals and the environment.
By John Wilson
posted 07/07/2004 12:01 a.m.
Book of the Week: How the Monster Grew
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the origins of modern media.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 07/05/2004 12:01 a.m.
Wasn't That a Mighty Fall
Martha Stewart, VeggieTales, and Narnia revisted.
By Otto Selles
posted 06/29/2004 12:01 a.m.
Book of the Week: Insect Theodicy
Who sent the locusts? And who exterminated them?
Reviewed by Abram Van Engen
posted 06/22/2004 12:01 a.m.
Telling Lies, Telling Stories
Lars Saabye Christensen's The Half Brother reveals imagination as escape.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 06/15/2004 12:01 a.m.
The Art of Political War
A veteran columnist urges his fellow liberals to take a lesson from those nasty conservatives.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 06/07/2004
Book of the Week: Thou Shalt Not Swap
The uses and abuses of copyright.
Reviewed by Nathan Anderson
posted 05/24/2004
Book of the Week: Your God Is Too Small
An ironic skeptic scolds believers for domesticating the deity.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 05/17/2004
Book of the Week: Mystery and Message
Must they compete?
Reviewed by Abram Van Engen
posted 05/10/2004
Celebrating Faith in Writing
A dispatch from Calvin College's biennial event.
By John Wilson
posted 04/26/2004
Book of the Week: Shabbos, Sheitels, and Yarmulkes
A novel set in the world of Orthodox Judaism.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 04/19/2004
Book of the Week: The Naked City
The story of the 1977 blackout in New York-the occasion of widespread looting and destruction-has some surprisingly timely lessons for America in 2004.
By Caroline Langston
posted 04/12/2004
A Curious Contingency
Confessions of a wordsmith.
By T. M. Moore
posted 04/05/2004
Book of the Week: "Trust but Verify"
Ronald Reagan's faith.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 03/29/2004
Baseball Preview 2004
Plus a look back with some Negro League veterans.
By Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/29/2004
Books of the Week: Mistakes Were Made
Four of the Seven Deadly Sins, as seen from a contemporary vantage point.
Reviewed by Abram Van Engen
posted 03/22/2004
Book of the Week: How Do You Live with a Torturer?
A novel of Haiti by the brilliant young writer, Edwidge Danticat.
Reviewed by Elissa Elliott
posted 03/08/2004
Book of the Week: Life, Work, and the Mommy Wars
A book about real choices.
Reviewed by Randi Sider-Rose
posted 03/01/2004
Book of the Week: God Is in the Details
A scientist affirms his faith.
Reviewed by Jonathan C. Rienstra-Kiracofe
posted 02/23/2004
Book of the Week: History Repeats Itself, Sort of
How the fate of Eugene McCarthy's insurgency against LBJ sheds light on the 2004 presidential campaign.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 02/16/2004
Book of the Week: The Worst President Ever?
Former Nixon aide John Dean attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of Warren G. Harding.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 02/09/2004
Wholly, Wholly, Wholly
Calvinists and conga drums in Grand Rapids: a report from the seventeenth annual Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 02/02/2004
Book of the Week: The Doom of Choice
Fate, free will, and moral responsibility in Tolkien.
Reviewed by David O'Hara
posted 02/02/2004
Book of the Week: A Rose Among Thorns
A new novel by the author of Father Elijah illumines the spiritual consequences of our simplest decisions.
Reviewed by Albert Louis Zambone
posted 01/26/2004
Book of the Week: Baptized in Fire
A new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasizes his spiritual transformation.
Reviewed by John Wilson
posted 01/19/2004
Book of the Week: O'Connor v. the Antichrist
A hillbilly Thomist pushes back against modernity.
Reviewed by Lucas E. Morel
posted 01/12/2004
Book of the Week: Moody, the Media, and the Birth of Modern Evangelism
A cautionary tale.
Reviewed by Dale Suderman
posted 01/05/2004
Books & Culture Corner: A Few Coming Attractions from 2004
Plus: What to buy with those gift cards, and some of the books in my to-read stacks.
By John Wilson
posted 12/29/2003
The Top Ten Books of 2003
Plus: The Worst Book of the Year, more good reading, digital books, and a little Christmas music.
By John Wilson
posted 12/22/2003
Books at Warp Speed
We continue our annual roundup of noteworthy books.
By John Wilson
posted 12/15/2003
Book of the Week: Is "Sensual Orthodoxy" a Contradiction in Terms?
Read this unconventional collection of sermons and judge for yourself.
Reviewed by Steve Thorngate
posted 12/08/2003
Books, Books, Books!
We begin our annual roundup.
By John Wilson
posted 12/08/2003
Book of the Week: Urban Eden
In City: Urbanism and Its End, a new history of New Haven, Connecticut, the city (in its late 19th-century form) is an ambiguous heaven-and the suburbs that relentlessly followed are hell. Which leaves us where, exactly?
Reviewed by Nathan Bierma
posted 12/01/2003
Book of the Week: Cool Drink of Water
A poet's voice in the evangelical wilderness.
Reviewed by D.S. Martin
posted 11/24/2003
Books of the Week: Faith, Hope, and Charity in North Carolina
New novels by Michael Morris—whose first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, was a word-of-mouth hit—and Jan Karon, who continues her beloved Mitford saga.
Reviewed by Betty Smartt Carter
posted 11/17/2003
Books of the Week: Remember Afghanistan?
Two inside reports.
By Albert Louis Zambone
posted 11/10/2003
Dr. Z
PBS creates a Doctor Zhivago for our time-and entirely omits the (unorthodox) Christianity that informs the novel from start to finish.
By John Wilson
posted 11/03/2003
Books of the Week: From Dust to Dust
Soil and the future of creation.
Reviewed by Ragan Sutterfield
posted 11/03/2003
Book of the Week: The Troubled Conscience of a Founding Father
An Imperfect God examines George Washington and slavery.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 10/27/2003
The Year of the Fish
The 2003 baseball season concludes with a bang—and 2004 is just around the corner.
By John Wilson
posted 10/27/2003
I Shop, Therefore I Am
Critics of "consumer culture" are all wet, Virginia Postrel says. The riot of choices available to us resonates with our deepest aesthetic instincts.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 10/20/2003
Book of the Week: Back to the Future
A sprawling new novel by the author of Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon goes to the 17th century to investigate the birth of the modern world. (You won't be surprised to learn that the Puritans are among the Bad Guys.)
By Albert Louis Zambone
posted 10/13/2003
Book of the Week: Poetry, Prayer, and Parable
The playful provocations of Scott Cairns
Philokalia, reviewed by David Wright
posted 10/06/2003
Book of the Week: Terrorists on Trial
How the nation responded to an earlier attack.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 09/29/2003
The Contemplative Christian
Eugene Peterson calls believers to a life lived with "wholeness, honesty, without contrivance"-against the grain of much that's currently driving the church in America.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 09/29/2003
Book of the Week: Recalling California
Want to understand what's going on in the Golden State? Toss your newsmagazines and pick up Joan Didion's new book.
Reviewed by Caroline Langston
posted 09/22/2003
The Ph.D. Octopus, 100 Years On
How Christians can make a difference in the upside-down world of graduate school
By Wilfred M. McClay
posted 09/15/2003
Book of the Week: The Difference Between Conservatives and Prolifers
William Saletan unspins, and respins, the abortion debate.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 09/08/2003
Book of the Week: A New View of Worldview
Some critics want to retire the concept. Not so fast, says David Naugle.
Reviewed by Daniel Siedell
posted 08/18/2003
Book of the Week: 'A Golden Age' of Religious Tolerance?
The Ornament of the World analyzes how the intellectual elites of medieval Spain eschewed fundamentalism and showed surprising sensitivity in reconciling competing truths.
Reviewed by Kate Elliot van Liere
posted 08/11/2003
Books of the Week: Looking for the 'I'
What happens to the self when the brain is injured or malformed?
Reviewed by Heather Looy
posted 08/04/2003
Book of the Week: The Terror of the Therapeutic
Margaret Atwood's new novel considers the price we may pay for looking to technology to remedy our ills, personal and social.
Review by Stephen Dunning
posted 07/28/2003
Book of the Week: The Catholic Church's Regime Change
Would lay power really augur a new epoch of openness and honesty?
By Eugene McCarraher
posted 07/21/2003
Book of the Week: One-Hit Wonder
The long swansong of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 07/07/2003
Book of the Week: Divinely Decreed?
Re-fighting the Battle of Gettysburg.
Reviewed by Preston Jones
posted 06/30/2003
Why There Will Be Sidewalks in Heaven
Isaiah and the New Urbanism.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 06/09/2003
True Believers
Incoming! The McSweeney's crowd launches a new monthly.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 06/02/2003
Facing the Past
Günter Grass and the debate over Germans as victims in World War II.
By Gregor Thuswaldner
posted 05/19/2003
Are Movies Fundamentally Inferior to Books?
Two responses to Ralph Wood's claim that "biblical tradition elevates word over picture."
posted 05/12/2003
Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Buffy and the Meaning of Life
Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally gets some respect. Too bad the life is slowly ebbing out of the show.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 05/05/2003
Getting Ahead in Order to Serve
Why "Christian ambition" isn't an oxymoron.
By Beth Henary
posted 04/28/2003
Bird Watching with Anne Lamott
A PBS documentary enters the unruly, grace-filled world of the author of Traveling Mercies.
By Agnieszka Tennant
posted 04/21/2003
A Story Darwin Might Love
Brian McLaren's evolutionary interpretation of the faith promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is good enough.
By Mark Galli
posted 04/14/2003
Why We Are in Iraq
Michael Kelly, R.I.P.
By John Wilson
posted 04/07/2003
Letter from Spain
A former resident returns to find that it is still stony ground for the Gospel.
By Jeff M. Sellers in Madrid
posted 03/31/2003
Lessons in Nation-Building From a Fledgling Democracy
Shays's Rebellion describes a time when revolution was no longer cool.
By Preston Jones
posted 03/24/2003
Whose Reality TV?
Tune in this week to Frederick Wiseman's PBS documentary, Domestic Violence, to see some real survivors.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 3/17/2003
Oh, Brother
Most everyone agrees that the James ossuary is a significant find. Ask what it means, however …
By Jeremy Lott
posted 3/17/2003
Vanity Fair
A chronicler of religion plays the straight man.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 3/10/2003
Diagnosing "The Doctor"
A new assessment of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher.
By Mark A. Noll
posted 3/3/2003
Taken Prisoner
Stories from the far-flung frontiers of the British Empire, 1600-1850, challenge our preconceptions.
By Preston Jones
posted 2/24/2003
Another Third Way?
The mixed record of Catholic social thought.
By Christopher Shannon
posted 2/17/2003
Divine Numbers
Can you say "Christian" and "mathematics" in the same sentence?
By Karl-Dieter Crisman
posted 2/10/2003
Getting Beyond Victimology
A provocative collection of essays for "the black silent majority."
By Preston Jones
posted 2/3/2003
Strange Bedfellows
Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell collaborate on a collection of political writing. Has the millennium arrived unnoticed?
By Jeremy Lott
posted 1/27/2003
Encounters of the Gods
Christianity and Native American religion in early America.
by Richard W. Pointer
posted 1/20/2003
Books Present, Books Past, and Books to Come
Plus: A new format for this column.
By John Wilson
posted 1/13/2003
Double Indemnity Meets Dead Souls
A conversation with novelist Richard Dooling.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 1/6/2003
Books of the Year
The top ten. (OK-make that twelve.)
By John Wilson
posted 12/30/2002
Entertain Us
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rapture of distress.
By David Dark
posted 12/16/2002
Boys Will Be Boys
A new book by a leading Christian feminist scholar inadvertently reveals the flawed assumptions underlying much talk about "flexibility" in gender roles.
By John W. Miller
posted 12/9/2002
Street Cred
Dave Eggers: The portrait of an artist as a … what?
by Jeremy Lott
posted 12/2/2002
Subversive Literature
A report from Toronto, where scholars of religion are holding their annual meeting.
By John Wilson
posted 11/25/2002
Epicurus'—and Darwin's—Dangerous Idea
How we became hedonists.
By Richard Weikart
posted 11/18/2002
Weird Science?
A Darwinian debate continues.
By Jonathan Wells
posted 11/11/2002
Of Moths and Men Revisited
A Darwinian debate.
By Kevin Padian and Alan Gishlick
posted 11/4/2002
Angels in Heaven
A game that's more than a game.
By John Wilson
posted 10/28/2002
Number One with a Bullet
America's foist family as a tool for evangelism.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 10/21/2002
Train Up a Child
Helping children to become intimately familiar with Scripture.
By Susan R. Garrett
posted 10/14/2002
Acting Like Those "Evangelicals"
Guilty as charged?
By John Wilson
posted 09/30/2002
Ugly Evangelicals
Is this us?
posted 09/23/2002
Herbie Goes Bananas
The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of the VW Beetle.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 09/16/2002
So Far, So Near
A graduate of Murree Christian School in Pakistan, the site of a deadly assault by Islamic terrorists in August, reflects on his growing-up years, on what has changed in the interim, and on the beleaguered Christian community in Pakistan.
Interview by Todd Hertz
posted 09/09/2002
The New York Times Discovers Religion (Again)
Shouldn't the paper of record be able to move beyond Square One?
By John Wilson
posted 08/26/2002
After the Quake
Bedside reading for the anniversary of 9/11.
By John Wilson
posted 08/19/2002
How to Avoid the Coming Disaster
"Imitate Japan." "No, don't imitate Japan." Time out.
By John Wilson
posted 08/12/2002
"Mind Control" and the Christian Citizen
Historian Sean Wilentz's misguided attack on Justice Antonin Scalia.
By Caleb Stegall
posted 08/05/2002
Speak What We Feel
By David Stewart
posted 07/29/2002
Frederick Buechner's latest book is one of his best.
The Great Inflatable Shark Hunt
A report from the Christian Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 07/22/2002
Why Evangelicals Can't Opt Out of Political Engagement
Remembering Jeremiah Evarts and Samuel Worcester.
By John Wilson
posted 07/15/2002
The Pledge Controversy
Asking the wrong questions?
By John Perry
posted 07/08/2002
Reading Danny Pearl
How would the murdered journalist want to be remembered?
By Jeremy Lott
posted 07/01/2002
A Cry for Help
Sudanese Christians gather in Houston and ask for U.S. support.
By David C. Owens
posted 06/17/2002
Agrarians of the World, Unite!
Wendell Berry's vision, and how Christians should respond to it.
By Eric Miller
posted 06/10/2002
Stop, Drop, and Cover …
Then hack your lungs out and die.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 06/03/2002
Death of an Evolutionist
RIP Stephen Jay Gould.
By John Wilson
posted 05/28/2002
Closing The X-Files …
… with the sign of the Cross.
By John Wilson
posted 05/20/2002
And the Next Thing Is …
Marxism (or not).
By Jeremy Lott
posted 05/13/2002
God Bless the Eliminator
Mother Jones magazine makes known a shocking discovery: evangelicals are sending missionaries to Muslim countries!
by Michael G. Maudlin
posted 05/06/2002
"A Peculiar People"
The uniqueness of the Jews
By John Wilson
posted 04/29/2002
A Grave in the Air, a Soul Dancing
Two remarkable collections of Holocaust testimony.
By John Wilson
posted 04/22/2002
'Nebuchadnezzar My Slave'
Was the Holocaust God's will?
By John Wilson
posted 04/15/2002
"In the Beginning Was the Holocaust"?
Blasphemy, rage, memory, and meaning of the Shoah.
By John Wilson
posted 04/08/2002
The Gospel According to Biff
A conversation with novelist Christopher Moore.
By Jeremy Lott
posted 04/01/2002
Baseball 2002 Preview
Part 2: Saving the game?
By Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/25/2002
The State of the Game
After one of the best World Series ever, baseball faces a crisis.
By Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/18/2002
America's Homegrown Islam—and Its Prophet
The strange story of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam and onetime mentor of Malcolm X.
By Preston Jones
posted 03/11/2002
'Must Be Superstition'
Rediscovering spiritual reality.
By John Wilson
posted 03/04/2002
Science Holds a Meeting
A report from the annual convention of the AAAS.
By John Wilson
posted 02/25/2002
Saint Frodo and the Potter Demon
The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series spring from the same source.
By Michael G. Maudlin
posted 02/18/2002
Dictionary of the Future
Trendspotter Faith Popcorn on the words that will define our tomorrow.
By John Wilson
posted 02/11/2002
Does Creationism Equal Holocaust Denial?
Yes, says Michael Shermer in Scientific American.
By John Wilson
posted 02/04/2002
Theodore Rex
Is "popular history" getting a bad rap?
By Preston Jones
posted 01/28/2002
Letter to Martin Luther King, Jr.
A progress report.
By John Wilson
posted 01/21/2002
Keeping the Dust on Your Boots
Remembering the Afghan refugees—and the church in Iran.
By John Wilson
posted 01/14/2002
Coming Attractions
Books to watch for this year.
By John Wilson
posted 01/07/2002
Books of the Year, Part 2
After the top ten, here's the best of the rest.
By John Wilson
posted 01/04/2002
Books of the Year
Part 1: The Top Ten
By John Wilson
posted 12/17/2001
"Daddy, What Is the Soul?"
Does the church have an answer?
By John Wilson
posted 12/10/2001
"We Now Know"
The boast of imperial science.
By John Wilson
posted 12/03/01
"24 Cow Clones, All Normal" …
Oh yes, and a few cloned human embryos that died.
John Wilson
posted 11/26/2001
"Discovering" Islam: The Intellectual Challenge.
There's good reason to believe that there will be staying power to the West's belated "discovery" of Islam.
John Wilson
posted 11/19/2001
Disturbing the Peace
Is art always subversive when it's doing its job?
John Wilson
posted 11/12/2001
Play Ball
Baseball, leisure, and worship.
John Wilson
posted 11/02/2001
Is God a Body-Snatcher?
The restless intelligence of philosopher Peter van Inwagen.
John Wilson
posted 10/30/2001
"Science and the Spiritual Quest"
A place at the table for Christians, but at a price.
John Wilson
posted 10/22/2001
Beyond Belief?
Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul's accounts of Islam presuppose the superiority of modern skepticism.
John Wilson
posted 10/15/2001
Covering Islam
Getting beyond the feel-good bromides.
John Wilson
posted 10/8/2001
Christian Scholarship … For What?
Academic speakers affirm the value of beholding God's creation.
John Wilson
posted 10/1/2001
Myths of the Taliban
Misinformation and disinformation abounds. What do we know?
John Wilson
posted 9/24/2001
The Imagination of Disaster
"We thought we were invulnerable." Really?
John Wilson
posted 9/17/01
More Sex, Fewer Children
Mixed messages on condoms, contraception, and fertility.
John Wilson
posted 9/10/01
The Strange Case of Napoleon Beazley
How media coverage of a young killer created death row chic.
John Wilson
posted 8/27/01
Apocalyptic City
The dream and the nightmare of megalopolis.
John Wilson
posted 8/20/01
Megalopolis Forty Years On
The ambiguous face of the city.
John Wilson
posted 8/13/01
The Future Is Now
You want the news? Read science fiction.
John Wilson
posted 8/6/01
Memorable Memoirs
Whether telling us about the Spirit in the South or the crumbling atheism of a Chinese immigrant, these books provide windows into others' lives.
John Wilson
posted 7/30/01
The Distorted Story of Memoir Inc.
There are many good autobiographies out there, but do those who write about them have to pretend they're the only books worth reading?
John Wilson
posted 7/23/01
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