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July 2, 2011 | Vol. 26, No. 13

A bridge too far

Marvin Olasky |

July 2, 2011 | Vol. 26, No. 13

Facing the pressure

Marvin Olasky |

July 2, 2011 | Vol. 26, No. 13

Books of the Year

Marvin Olasky | Two new books are important responses to the rapidly growing promotion of theistic- or, more properly, deistic-evolution

FEATURES

Buy the book

Links to purchase the books featured in WORLD's 2011 Books Issue

Gifts for readers

Susan Olasky | Four books to give on special occasions

A rare jewel of conference contentment

William Boyd | Meeting and greeting famous writers at the conference on southern literature

Darker times

Janie B. Cheaney | Fantasy novels about bleak futures are the rage among teenage readers

Enchanted woods

Enchanted woods

Megan Basham | Six good fantasy novels from the past year

Worlds apart

John Ottinger III | Six new novels offer a good start to a different kind of genre

Susan Olasky | Six new novels show how Christian fiction has matured in recent years

Fighting cancers

Emily Belz | History writers document diseases of the body and of the soul

Laugh tracts

Albin Sadar | A funny thing happened on the way to the bookstore

Heart, head, hands

Heart, head, hands

Amy L. Sherman | The best books on fighting poverty focus on holistic social action

Browsers' helper

Browsers' helper

Susan Olasky | For readers who search for books by genres and categories

Wholesome reading

Marvin Olasky | Good books with good values are not hard to find

No controversy? Dream on

No controversy? Dream on

Marvin Olasky | Ann Voskamp gains both fans and detractors for her poetic praises to God

Better than bullets

Better than bullets

Edward Lee Pitts | Biographers tell the amazing stories of two pivotal presidents

A crisis observed

David L. Bahnsen | Authors reflect on the causes of the meltdown of 2008

Kenan Minkoff | P.G.

Les Sillars | Journalists and athletes offer peeks at the lives behind the games

DISPATCHES

Human Race

Looking Ahead

No worship allowed

No worship allowed

One nation under fire

One nation under fire

Quotables

Quick Takes

Crowded field

CULTURE

FILM & TV

Rejoice & Shout

Film tells the jubilant history of black gospel music

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Apparently enjoyable for children, it looks to be one of those movies parents take for the team

Super 8 does something popcorn movies used to do-tell a good story

Box Office Top 10

For the weekend of June 10-12, according to Box Office Mojo

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

This film is a garish, manic, incoherent waste of celluloid

Music

Get past the liberal politics and you'll hear a lot about Jesus in the songs of Peter Case

Notable CDs

Five new pop-rock releases reviewed by Arsenio Orteza

Q&A

Leaving the liberal cocoon

Leaving the liberal cocoon

From Ivy League grad to copy boy to influential editor, Adam Bellow has gained success as a conservative in the New York publishing industry

NOTEBOOK

Sports

King no more

LeBron James has earned his role as NBA villain

Houses of God

Coptic church

Misrata, Libya

Science

Europe reels from the spread of a resilient E coli strain

Technology

iPad navigators

iPad navigators

FAA considers allowing airlines to use tablet computers in place of paper charts in the air

Money

Down and out

Housing and job numbers highlight a renewed sense of economic unease

Religion

Long's story

Georgia megachurch hits hard times as famed pastor settles case involving scandalous charges

VOICES

The still point of a turning world

Janie B. Cheaney

Janie B. Cheaney

Becoming readers

Hard to hold on

Andrée Seu Peterson

Andrée Seu Peterson