Books & Culture Archives

November/December 1998



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Roy Anker
Earlier this year the American Film Institute made headlines with a list of the 100 best American films. We asked regular reviewers Roy Anker and Peter Chattaway to give us a modest counterpart: their 10 favorite films. Herewith their lists:
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Leslie Woodcock Tentler
A new biography shrinks from social or psychological analysis to portray Dwight L. Moody as a product of Providence.
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Justus D. Doenecke
The story of evangelical Episcopalians is one of near success followed by near suicide.
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Gary Dorsey
We are not religious. But we are very spiritual.
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Lauren F. Winner
The very thing that makes evangelicalism attract and hold large numbers of people undercuts its effectiveness in social reform.
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David C. Downing
How to be a perspectivalist without losing your foundations.
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Alan Jacobs
How the New Yorker's William Shawn gave a home to the brilliant autobiographer Ved Mehta.
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