Christians in the art world.

A report from the Calvin Symposium.

A compelling memoir from the son of a priest and a former nun.

Marsden and Hart, Noll and Stout, and more.

Some highly subjective awards for 2005.

B&C regulars Roy Anker and Peter Chattaway give us their Top Ten lists from the films of 2005.

Books for the eye.

A charming bedside miscellany, a new novel by P. D. James, and much more.

Why I didn't like the hymns and praise songs we were singing—and why I was missing the point.

Some more keepers from 2005.

… and lists of books.

A parable of community.

A report from AAR/SBL.

A superb study of Chinese popular religion helps to set the context for the appeal of Christianity in China today.

Lessons in "respectful conversation."

A new book by Elizabeth Marquardt offers a child's-eye-view of divorce.

A geography of art in New York at the midpoint of the 20th century.

A chronicle of reading.

A proposal for compromise between "value evangelicals" and "legal secularists" on church-state issues.

Conversation touches on Hebrew parallelism, marriage, and the making of many books.