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August 3, 2019 | Vol. 34, No. 14

Scheming for God

Marvin Olasky | 2019 Hope Awards International winner 20schemes | How a Scottish ministry works in hard places to show the poor and addicted the riches of new life in Christ


FEATURES

Charissa Koh | 2019 Hope Awards Northwest winner Watered Gardens | At a gospel rescue mission, men have a chance to escape the spiral of drugs, homelessness, and joblessness. But it isn’t easy, and many do not make it to the end

Charissa Koh | 2019 Hope Awards Northeast winner Purposeful Design | A carpentry shop offers ex-addicts and homeless the chance to build furniture, friendship, and a future

Charissa Koh | 2019 Hope Awards Southwest winner Little Light Christian School | This Christian school’s mission is to love the children of prisoners—but traumatic backgrounds make the work a marathon of trusting God

Charissa Koh | 2019 Hope Awards Southeast winner Scarlet Hope | Rachelle Starr and her friends help women emerge from the sex industry

Jamie Dean | Summer plot twists punctuate a weird season of politics and culture

Marvin Olasky | The 2019 Hope Awards: Make contact, avoid beanballs


CULTURE
Books

Four self-published or small press books

Wars on poverty

Getting the right ammunition
Children's Books

Reading menagerie

Four picture books about animals
 
FILM & TV

No wave too high

Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable offers a closer look at the famous surfer’s inspiring life story

Short of gold

Netflix series Losers examines how eight athletes responded to defeat

Play like a genius

In Yesterday, unlikely events bring celebrity status to an unremarkable musician

King of the savanna

The new Lion King is a worthy remake of a classic prince-in-exile tale
Music

New or recent albums

Making it up

The Boss fails to convince in his Western Stars personae
Q&A

Seeing eye to eye

Why an Asian American band took its controversial trademark battle to the Supreme Court—and how its frontman saw humanity in others

NOTEBOOK
Business
Building businesses to fight modern-day slavery 
Lifestyle
From the sorrow of infertility to the joy of foster parenting