The Best Christian Writing 2006 by John Wilson

The Best Christian Writing 2006

John Wilson is an editor at Christianity Today and editor-in-chief of its Christian review of literature, Books & Culture.

Mark Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.

Introduction: Good Writing Is Clear Writing—And It’s the Same for Good Christian Writing Too (Mark Noll).

Preface (John Wilson).

Sermo CXCVI: Christmas #13 (Augustine).

Omit Unnecessary Words: On the Trail of Faith and Writing (Andy Crouch).

Phil’s Shadow: The Lessons of Groundhog Day (Michael P. Foley).

Spirituality for All the Wrong Reasons: An Interview with Eugene Peterson (Mark Galli).

On Reproduction and the Irreproducible Gift: Christ, Conception, and Biotechnology (Amy Laura Hall).

Odd Job (Richard Lischer).

Islamic Counter-Reformation (Paul Marshall).

The Meaning of Christ’s Suffering (Frederica Mathewes-Green).

High Fidelity (Bill McKibben).

Confessions of a Traveling Calvinist (Richard J. Mouw).

The Persistence of the Catholic Moment (Richard John Neuhaus).

Thanksgiving at Fair Acres (Virginia Stem Owens).

Belief Unbracketed: A Case for the Religion Scholar to Reveal More of Where He or She Is Coming From (Stephen Prothero).

My Africa Problem . . . and Ours (Gideon Strauss).

To Skellig Michael, Monastery in the Sky (Daniel Taylor).

Brother John (August Turak).

Spokane: A Triptych (Paul J. Willis).

Wedding Insanity (Lauren F. Winner).

Picturing the Passion (Gregory Wolfe).

Is Art Salvific? (Nicholas Wolterstorff).

Biographical Notes.

Credits.

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