A nice review by Miles Raymer in last week’s edition, with a thought-provoking kicker:

Stephen Prothero, in his American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, points out that much of Christianity’s success in the U.S. comes from the American ability to mold Jesus into a customized savior for every believer’s need. This isn’t new: 30 years ago the Jesus people just refashioned JC as the grooviest hippie of them all. The kids of the culture wars—caught between an increasingly fundamentalist culture and an ever-more-pressing material one—need more than just a Christ they can get crunk for. They need a Jesus who’s pro-life and antigay, who can sell video games—and T-shirts too.

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