The new ERB print issue has been mailed recently and is beginning to be received by our subscribers…
(Yes, it is the Advent issue, We were running late, and the Advent season came and went before we could get the issue out. I guess the Advent season is about waiting, after all…)
Featuring an interview with Paul McCusker, annotator of the new ANOTATED SCREWTAPE, a story from Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s STRANGERS AT MY DOOR, and our Best Books of 2013 Feature. And a superb lineup of reviews: new books by Wendell Berry, Ann Patchett, Christena Cleveland, and MORE! Plus, Christmas poems from George Macdonald.
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Below you will find the ERB Table of Contents for this issue,
and for the first time, we are including sample articles for you to read in full!!!
THE ENGLEWOOD REVIEW OF BOOKS
Advent 2013
Volume 04, Number 01
2 Editorial
Features:
4 Cubicles, Screwtape and the Enduring Appeal of C.S. Lewis
An Interview with Paul McCusker, annotator of The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition
14 Englewood Honor Books 2013
18 The Light That Can Shine
A Story From Strangers at My Door
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Reviews:
7 Toward The Almost Forgotten Light
C. Christopher Smith
This Day: New and Collected Sabbath
Poems 1979-2012 by Wendell Berry
12 The Gift of the Given
Joe Gunby
Flesh Becomes Word: Poems by Brian Volck
20 Emotion, Faith and Serious Doubt
Jon M. Sweeney
The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti
22 A Book of Its Time Rachel M. Stone
The Kinfolk Table by Nathan Williams
24 Coffee With Jesus by David Wilkie
26 What if There Were No Them In the Body of Christ?
Zena Neds-Fox
Disunity in Christ Christena Cleveland
28 This is the Story of a Wonderful Anthology
Jennifer Burns Lewis
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
30 Out of Bounds with Ragan Sutterfield
Dance Yourself Free: Arcade Fire’s Reflektor
32 The Englewood Review’s Classics
Michael J. Bowling
The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard B. Hays
34 On the Bookshelf
36 A Healing Antidote Julie Lane-Gay
Discerning the Body by Jason Byassee
38 True Confessions From a Child of
Consumer Christianity Brad Fruhauff
When We Were On Fire by Addie Zierman
Poetry:
31 Christmas-Day, 1878
Christmas Meditation – George Macdonald
40 A Christmas Carol – George Macdonald
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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