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October 4, 2014 | Vol. 29, No. 20

Holding together

Jamie Dean | In a world falling apart, ordinary citizens do the hard work of pursuing a center that holds


FEATURES

Marvin Olasky | A short story, a grand canyon, and a 180-degree turn to the realization that not a college falls to earth apart from the will of our heavenly Father

Ryan Hill, Emily Scheie | Low-cost lodging opportunities are revolutionizing the travel experience

Sophia Lee, Angela Lu Fulton | Two Christian colleges, both founded in 1906, both about the same size, have gone in different directions

J.C. Derrick | Meet Daniel Webster, the nonradical advocate for a radical step

Sophia Lee | West region winner Jubilee Leadership Academy offers troubled boys a new beginning amid apple orchards


CULTURE
Books

Beautiful words

A look at three men and the ‘power of poetic effort’
 
FILM & TV

Fight Church

Scorpion

Body punches

Evangelical culture gets some in-house parody in <em>Believe Me</em>

Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt?

Music

Together again

Movie’s <em>Black Album</em> hits the right post-Beatles note but holds it too long
Notable CDs

Notable CDs

New albums
Q&A

Darwin on the rocks

DNA and Cambrian fossils, says Stephen Meyer, make macroevolutionary theory increasingly untenable

NOTEBOOK
Technology
Governments and industry are racing to go hypersonic
Houses of God
Medicine
Ebola so far hasn’t hit tiny Guinea-Bissau, but the disease could spread there like wildfire
Science
Private groups dominate effort to reach Mars
Lifestyle
Parental reaction spurs school district to pull controversial health text—at least for now