Books & Culture

November/December 2016 Issue

Volume 22, Number 6

September/October 1995 Issue
September/October 2016 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

500 Years and Now What?

Protestantism and its legacies.

Coming of Age, Sort Of

A young teacher’s hard lessons.

The Easter Rising

Revisiting the defining moment in Ireland’s struggle for independence.

It CAN Happen Here

A cautionary fable from Bruce Sterling.

The Eastern Face of World War I

Filling in a neglected part of the story.

Pilgrim’s Progress

Geoff Dyer and “thin spaces.”

Quasi-Divine Democracy

Leveraging the transient into the eternal.

Through the Gates of Hades

Crossing borders with Dennis Covington.

The Squatters Next Door

A history of American shantytowns.

Mind the Gap?

Robert Putnam on “the American Dream in crisis.”

Healing Wounds After Battle

The church as a unified and serving body.

Messed-Up Memories of Jesus?

The Gospels, memory, and oral tradition.

Everyman at Large

Bill Bryson in Britain.

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