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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

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

Facing the pressure

Marvin Olasky |

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

A bridge too far

Marvin Olasky |

FEATURES

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Highs and lows

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

Bygone Britian

Kenan Minkoff | P.G.

A crisis observed

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

Better than bullets

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

No controversy? Dream on

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

Wholesome reading

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

Browsers' helper

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

Heart, head, hands

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

Laugh tracts

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

Fighting cancers

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

Getting better

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

Worlds apart

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

Enchanted woods

Megan Basham | Six good fantasy novels from the past year

Darker times

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

A rare jewel of conference contentment

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

Gifts for readers

Susan Olasky | Four books to give on special occasions

DISPATCHES

Crowded field

Quick Takes

Quotables

One nation under fire

No worship allowed

Looking Ahead

Human Race

CULTURE

FILM & TV

Rejoice & Shout

Film tells the jubilant history of black gospel music

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

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

Box Office Top 10

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

Summer heart

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

Mr. Popper's Penguins

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

Music

Open Case

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

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

Religion

Long's story

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

Money

Down and out

Housing and job numbers highlight a renewed sense of economic unease

Technology

iPad navigators

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

Science

Fatal outbreak

Europe reels from the spread of a resilient E coli strain

Houses of God

Coptic church

Misrata, Libya

Sports

King no more

LeBron James has earned his role as NBA villain

VOICES

Andrée Seu Peterson

Within reach

The Editors

Mailbag

Joel Belz

Hard to hold on

Marvin Olasky

Darwin matters

Janie B. Cheaney

Becoming readers

Mindy Belz

The still point of a turning world