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July 26, 2014 | Vol. 29, No. 15

China beachhead

June Cheng | Pro-life efforts are growing in the nation with the most abortions. But saving lives in the womb is an enormous challenge—even within the church


FEATURES
Far from home

Kiley Crossland | Congolese authorities are keeping hundreds of adopted orphans from joining their new families abroad

Cultivating change

Daniel James Devine | Rural ministry in Michigan earns Midwest regional victory

A life worth living

Jay Grelen | For a decade my father was unable to walk or communicate, but who is to say he had no good quality of life?


CULTURE
Books

'Wisdom journalists'

Author acknowledges a lack of media objectivity, but his solution means more propaganda
 
FILM & TV

112 Weddings

America

Box Office Top 10

For the weekend of July 4–6 according to Box Office Mojo

Bereft and abandoned

Far from edifying, <em>The Leftovers</em> does offer a fundamental honesty about the human condition

Earth to Echo

Music

Good and gone

The recent deaths of four musicians may also signal the death of what they did so well
Notable CDs

Notable CDs

New or recent jazz CDs
Q&A
Missing the mark

Missing the mark

The $20 trillion War on Poverty has barely dented the poverty rate. Expert Jennifer Marshall says we can do better

NOTEBOOK
Sports
Game changers
American interest in the World Cup may be part of a long-awaited trend for soccer
Money
Debt decisions
A better idea for student loan reform
Houses of God
Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Philadelphia, Miss.
Technology
My digital neighborhood
A slow-growing social network wants you to get online and meet your neighbors
Science
From cool to cold
A long-term study finds middle-school popularity often doesn’t end well
Lifestyle
A look back
Hope Award winners from the past: Where are they now?