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.

Unsentimental, careful essays explore God in nature.

Escalating health-care costs bid the church to get creative.

Senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland, and coauthor (with George Barna) of a new book, High-Impact African American Churches, on trends in black churches.

Recent quotes on Amish voters, Christian politics in Germany, book burning, and the UK's abortion scandal.

Following God On Broken Legs

A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.

The birth of Christ is only the final stop when meditating this holiday season. An excerpt from Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year.

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.

How perpetrators are more gullible than their victims. An excerpt from Cleaning Up.

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder.