Books
- Original Sin: a Cultural History (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008).
- Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
- The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (San Francisco: Harper, and London: SPCK, 2005). Winner, Christianity Today 2006 Book Award, History/Biography Category. Winner, 2006 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography. German translation (Der Mann aus Narnia) published in 2007 by Johannis Verlag.
- Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004). October main selection, the Anglican Book Club.
- A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love (Boulder and New York: Westview Press, 2001), hardcover and paperback.
- A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2001). Co-Winner, Christianity Today 2002 Book Award, Christianity and Culture category. Audio version (read by the author) produced by Mars Hill Audio in 2002; this is now available in a downloadable MP3 form.
- What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden’s Poetry (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998).
- Must Christianity be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology, ed. with Kenneth R. Chase (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2003).
Some Recent Essays
- "In the Garden", in the Fall 2008 of the very cool Cabinet magazine.
- A review of Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem at Culture11.
- Is Martin Amis amiss?
- On The Life of Trees, from Books & Culture.
- Why religion is weak, in the WSJ.
- My critique of the "Evangelical Manifesto," also in the WSJ.
- In 2007 I wrote for Books & Culture a series of more-or-less monthly columns called “Rumors of Glory.”
- My review — sort of — of the Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran.
- “The Youngest Brother’s Tale” is my review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- Earlier I reflected on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- Here are my thoughts on the Garden of Eden.
- And on the varieties of American Christian signage.
- Here’s an article for the Boston Globe on C. S. Lewis.
- And one on James Agee.
- Should a historically Protestant institution like Wheaton College hire Catholics? Here are some thoughts about that, and some of the correspondence that ensued.
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