How the emotional stories of Christian preachers and writers shaped a movement.

You won't understand the genius of C. S. Lewis's literary criticism, satire, science fiction, and theological essays until you spend time in Narnia.

How Anne Rice moved from fascination with vampires to renewed faith in Christ.

How a reserved British intellectual with a checkered pedigree became a rock star for evangelicals.

Ted Dekker sees himself as a reverse missionary.

Armed with traditional faith, these Christians subverted the establishment, putting secular ideas under the microscope of the eternal.

Bret Lott is a true-blue evangelical who writes literary fiction that New York takes seriously (and that Oprah loves).

Poland (mostly) honors Czeslaw Milosz upon his death.

The author of In the Moon of Red Ponies discusses rejection, perseverance, and the call to write.

Confessions of a wordsmith.

A dispatch from Calvin College's biennial event.

The Best Christian Writing 2004 is an eclectic sampling from the spectrum of Christianity.

Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God, said the Psalm. Yet racism in the mission churches clouded that vision. James Johnson (1836-1917) offered a solution.

Over the protests of a divided church, the scholarly Ugandan priest became the first African Catholic bishop. Just three years after his death, 12 more Africans would follow in his footsteps.

William Wade Harris was one of several indigenous Christian leaders who took an open approach to polygamy. They cited social conditions and biblical support.

East Africa's second generation Christians faced that age-old spiritual problem - dullness of hearts. Simeon Nsibambi's message of a victorious life sparked a revival that continues today.

The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.

Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage - imitation.