Books & Culture

January/February 2012 Issue

Volume 18, Number 1

March/April 2012 Issue
November/December 2011 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

Practicing Trust

The self-giving ethos of biblical sexuality.

What Lasts?

On the editor and critic Roger Kimball.

Chesterton vs. Hitchens

The need for worthy opponents.

The Big Chill

Apostasy and blasphemy codes.

“An Open Wound of Love”

Richard Foster on meditative prayer.

Evangelicals on the Basel Trail

Reckoning with Karl Barth.

Happy Endings

Caitlin Moran on how to be a woman.

In Praise of Lament

How early Protestants understood suffering.

How to Talk About Hell

And why we must.

Just-So Stories

Loose talk about evolution and storytelling.

Bait and Switch

Sam Harris on free will.

Objects of Wonder

How credible are accounts of miracles?

The Kids Aren’t All Right

A report on “the dark side of emerging adulthood.”

Stark’s Sampler

Church history for the chronically misinformed.

Enlarge the Place of Thy Tent

A biography of the Book of Mormon.

An Invitation to the Dance

Ballet in a lively chronicle.

Lost Treasures

Rewriting the history of American musical theater.

Frederick the Bruce

The immensely productive life of F. F. Bruce.

Missing Persons

The Rapture? The Sudden Departure? Or what?

Unlikely Seer

The poetry of Eugenio Montale.

Living Well and Speaking Well

Public speaking and mental hygiene.

Back to the Future

Rediscovering “The Space Merchants.”

Does the Lord Reign?

Poets attending to the Psalms.

‘In Media Res’

Teju Cole’s stunning first novel.

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