Books & Culture is publishing its final issue next month, and it’s hard not to be depressed about it. If you’ve never heard of Books & Culture, the main thing you need to know is that it is Christianity Today’s review of—well, books and culture. But it’s also much more than that. Alan Jacobs describes B&C as “one of the most consistently interesting magazines in the English-speaking world,” while Mark Coddington explains that the magazine had “significance that reached many who had never even heard of it.” I have no doubt that the decision to fold was incredibly difficult for everyone involved, but at the end of the day, there was not enough money to sustain the enterprise.
Gregory Wolfe summarized his reaction to the news this way on Twitter: “American Christianity in the 21st century produced God’s Not Dead 2 but could not sustain Books & Culture.” Ouch.
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