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Celebrating Faith in Writing
A dispatch from Calvin College's biennial event.
by John Wilson
posted 04/26/2004
A Curious Contingency
Confessions of a wordsmith.
by T. M. Moore
posted 04/05/2004
Baseball Preview 2004
Plus a look back with some Negro League veterans.
By Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/29/2004
Wholly, Wholly, Wholly
Calvinists and conga drums in Grand Rapids: a report from the seventeenth annual Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 02/02/2004
A Few Coming Attractions from 2004
Plus: What to buy with those gift cards, and some of the books in my to-read stacks.
By John Wilson
posted 12/29/2003
The Top Ten Books of 2003
Plus: The Worst Book of the Year, more good reading, digital books, and a little Christmas music.
By John Wilson
posted 12/22/2003
Books at Warp Speed
We continue our annual roundup of noteworthy books.
By John Wilson
posted 12/15/2003
Books, Books, Books!
We begin our annual roundup.
By John Wilson
posted 12/08/2003
Dr. Z
PBS creates a Doctor Zhivago for our time—and entirely omits the (unorthodox) Christianity that informs the novel from start to finish.
By John Wilson
posted 11/03/2003
The Year of the Fish
The 2003 baseball season concludes with a bang—and 2004 is just around the corner.
By John Wilson
posted 10/27/2003
I Shop, Therefore I Am
Critics of "consumer culture" are all wet, Virginia Postrel says. The riot of choices available to us resonates with our deepest aesthetic instincts.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
posted 10/20/2003
The Contemplative Christian
Eugene Peterson calls believers to a life lived with "wholeness, honesty, without contrivance"—against the grain of much that's currently driving the church in America.
By Nathan Bierma
posted 09/29/2003
The Ph.D. Octopus, 100 Years On
How Christians can make a difference in the upside-down world of graduate school.
By Wilfred M. McClay
posted 09/15/2003
True Believers
Incoming! The McSweeney's crowd launches a new monthly.
posted 06/02/2003
Are Movies Fundamentally Inferior to Books?
Two responses to Ralph Wood's claim that "biblical tradition elevates word over picture."
posted 05/12/2003
Why There Are Seven Chronicles of Narnia
British scholar discovers hidden design of C.S. Lewis' perennially popular series.
By John Wilson
posted 04/25/2003
Bird Watching with Anne Lamott
A PBS documentary enters the unruly, grace-filled world of the author of Traveling Mercies.
By Agnieszka Tennant
posted 04/21/2003
Whose Reality TV?
Tune in this week to Frederick Wiseman's PBS documentary, Domestic Violence, to see some real survivors.
by Nathan Bierma
posted 3/17/2003
A Weapon of Mass Destruction
The A-bomb in action, on view at an exhibition in New York.
by David Noll
posted 2/10/2003
Books Present, Books Past, and Books to Come
Plus: A new format for this column.
by John Wilson
posted 1/13/2003
Double Indemnity Meets Dead Souls
A conversation with novelist Richard Dooling.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 1/6/2003
Books of the Year
The top ten. (OK—make that twelve.)
by John Wilson
posted 12/30/2002
Entertain Us
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rapture of distress.
by David Dark
posted 12/16/2002
Boys Will Be Boys
A new book by a leading Christian feminist scholar inadvertently reveals the flawed assumptions underlying much talk about "flexibility" in gender roles.
by John W. Miller
posted 12/09/2002
Street Cred
Dave Eggers: The portrait of an artist as a … what?
by Jeremy Lott
posted 12/02/2002
Subversive Literature
A report from Toronto, where scholars of religion are holding their annual meeting.
by John Wilson
posted 11/25/2002
Epicurus'—and Darwin's—Dangerous Idea
How we became hedonists.
by Richard Weikart
posted 11/18/2002
Weird Science?
A Darwinian debate continues.
by Jonathan Wells
posted 11/11/2002
Of Moths and Men Revisited
A Darwinian debate.
by Kevin Padian and Alan Gishlick
posted 11/04/2002
Angels in Heaven
A game that's more than a game.
by John Wilson
posted 10/28/2002
Number One with a Bullet
America's foist family as a tool for evangelism.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 10/21/2002
Train Up a Child
Helping children to become intimately familiar with Scripture.
by Susan R. Garrett
posted 010/14/2002
Acting Like Those "Evangelicals"
Guilty as charged?
by John Wilson
posted 09/30/2002
Ugly Evangelicals
Is This Us?
posted 09/23/2002
Herbie Goes Bananas
The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of the VW Beetle.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 09/16/2002
So Far, So Near
A graduate of Murree Christian School in Pakistan, the site of a deadly assault by Islamic terrorists in August, reflects on his growing-up years, on what has changed in the interim, and on the beleaguered Christian community in Pakistan.
Interview by Todd Hertz
posted 09/09/2002
The New York Times Discovers Religion (Again)
Shouldn't the paper of record be able to move beyond Square One?
by John Wilson
posted 08/26/2002
After the Quake
Bedside reading for the anniversary of 9/11.
by John Wilson
posted 08/19/2002
How to Avoid the Coming Disaster
"Imitate Japan." "No, don't imitate Japan." Time out
by John Wilson
posted 08/12/2002
"Mind Control" and the Christian Citizen
Historian Sean Wilentz's misguided attack on Justice Antonin Scalia.
by Caleb Stegall
posted 08/05/2002
Speak What We Feel
Frederick Buechner's latest book is one of his best.
by David Stewart
posted 07/29/2002
The Great Inflatable Shark Hunt
A report from the Christian Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 07/22/2002
Why Evangelicals Can't Opt Out of Political Engagement
Remembering Jeremiah Evarts and Samuel Worcester.
by John Wilson
posted 07/15/2002
The Pledge Controversy
Asking the wrong questions?
by John Perry
posted 07/08/2002
Reading Danny Pearl
How would the murdered journalist want to be remembered?
by Jeremy Lott
posted 07/01/2002
A Cry for Help
Sudanese Christians gather in Houston and ask for U.S. support.
by David C. Owens
posted 06/17/2002
Stop, Drop, and Cover …
Then hack your lungs out and die.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 06/03/2002
Death of an Evolutionist
RIP Stephen Jay Gould.
by John Wilson
posted 05/28/2002
Closing The X-Files …
… with the sign of the Cross.
by John Wilson
posted 05/20/2002
And the Next Thing Is …
Marxism (or not).
by Jeremy Lott
posted 05/13/2002
God Bless the Eliminator
Mother Jones magazine makes known a shocking discovery: evangelicals are sending missionaries to Muslim countries!
by Michael G. Maudlin
posted 05/06/2002
"A Peculiar People"
The uniqueness of the Jews.
by John Wilson
posted 04/29/2002
A Grave in the Air, a Soul Dancing
Two remarkable collections of Holocaust testimony.
by John Wilson
posted 04/22/2002
'Nebuchadnezzar My Slave'
Was the Holocaust God's will?
by John Wilson
posted 04/15/2002
"In the Beginning Was the Holocaust"?
Blasphemy, rage, memory, and meaning of the Shoah.
by John Wilson
posted 04/08/2002
The Gospel According to Biff
A conversation with novelist Christopher Moore.
by Jeremy Lott
posted 04/01/2002
Baseball 2002 Preview
Part 2: Saving the game?
by Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/25/2002
The State of the Game
After one of the best World Series ever, baseball faces a crisis.
by Michael R. Stevens
posted 03/18/2002
America's Homegrown Islam—and Its Prophet
The strange story of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam and onetime mentor of Malcolm X.
by Preston Jones
posted 03/11/2002
'Must Be Superstition'
Rediscovering spiritual reality.
by John Wilson
posted 03/04/2002
Science Holds a Meeting
A report from the annual convention of the AAAS.
by John Wilson
posted 02/25/02
Saint Frodo and the Potter Demon
The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series spring from the same source.
by Michael G. Maudlin
posted 02/18/02
Dictionary of the Future
Trendspotter Faith Popcorn on the words that will define our tomorrow.
by John Wilson
posted 02/11/02
Does Creationism Equal Holocaust Denial?
Yes, says Michael Shermer in Scientific American.
by John Wilson
posted 02/04/02
Theodore Rex
Is "popular history" getting a bad rap?.
by Preston Jones
posted 01/28/02
Letter to Martin Luther King, Jr.
A progress report.
by John Wilson
posted 01/21/02
Keeping the Dust on Your Boots
Remembering the Afghan refugees—and the church in Iran.
by John Wilson
posted 01/14/02
Coming Attractions
Books to watch for this year.
by John Wilson
posted 01/07/02
Books of the Year, Part 2
After the top ten, here's the best of the rest.
by John Wilson
posted 01/04/02
Books of the Year
Part 1: The Top Ten.
by John Wilson
posted 12/17/01
"Daddy, What Is the Soul?"
Does the church have an answer?
by John Wilson
posted 12/10/01
'We Now Know'
The boast of imperial science.
by John Wilson
posted 12/03/01
"24 Cow Clones, All Normal" …
Oh yes, and a few cloned human embryos that died.
John Wilson
posted 11/26/2001
"Discovering" Islam: The Intellectual Challenge.
There's good reason to believe that there will be staying power to the West's belated "discovery" of Islam.
John Wilson
posted 11/19/2001
Disturbing the Peace
Is art always subversive when it's doing its job?
John Wilson
posted 11/12/2001
Play Ball
Baseball, leisure, and worship.
John Wilson
posted 11/02/2001
Is God a Body-Snatcher?
The restless intelligence of philosopher Peter van Inwagen.
John Wilson
posted 10/30/2001
"Science and the Spiritual Quest"
A place at the table for Christians, but at a price.
John Wilson
posted 10/22/2001
Beyond Belief?
Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul's accounts of Islam presuppose the superiority of modern skepticism.
John Wilson
posted 10/15/2001
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