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

Reimagined as a political activist.

The Noah Sphinx

Britain’s fascination with Egyptology.

A Prophet with Attitude

On Ellen Harmon White and Seventh-day Adventism.

“An Agile Absence on the Air”

Christian Wiman’s stringencies.

Poems for Inspirational Posters

A William Stafford centennial volume.

Shouts from Beneath the Burqa

Eliza Griswold’s translations of Afghan folk poems.

Missions and Modernity in Colonial Africa

Most of what you think you know is wrong.

Filling the Void

The South African writer Zakes Mda.

“Now Everything Is Easy Cause of You?”

The survival of writers in the digital age.

Church as a Shared Meal

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

Charles Taylor Explained

Clarifying the “secular.”

A Secular Age 2.0

Thomas Pfau and the irreducible mystery of personhood.

Awareness: Raised

Trafficking into forced labor.

All Archives

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