"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people."Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Welcome to the web site for Amy Frykholm. This site includes information on my current work and upcoming appearances. Through my Notebook, I invite you to join a conversation about religion and culture, food and travel.I am a staff writer for The Christian Century, a regular both to the Century’s pages and a contributor to its blog (Theolog). In 2004, my book Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America was published by Oxford University Press. My writing has been published in literary, academic and popular-academic publications. I have a Ph.D. from Duke University in Literature. I speak regularly on topics ranging from American apocalypticism to mysticism to immigration. Currently, I am working on two book projects. One is a biography of Julian of Norwich that will be published by Paraclete Press in 2010. The other is a book on American Christianity and sexuality, called, at the moment, Exile: Where Sex Meets the Church.