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October 12, 2019 | Vol. 34, No. 19

Walking a tightrope

Michael Reneau | After decades of success in helping drug addicts kick their habits and find Jesus, some Adult & Teen Challenge centers are opening the door for state regulation—and payments


FEATURES
An app in exile

June Cheng | WeDevote is China’s most popular Bible app, but Communist officials keep trying to shut it out of the country

Pages of providence

Marvin Olasky | Forty new history books worth reading—and 10 (from among thousands) to skip

Telling the truth

Jamie Dean | From courtrooms to potted plants, the search for truth goes to unexpected places

Evo ever after?

Jamie Dean | As a new election approaches, Bolivia’s Morales may be seeking to become another South American president for life


CULTURE
Documentary

Tears on the moors

In Evelyn, siblings hope a series of hikes in Scotland will help their family heal from the pain of a brother’s suicide

Midwest medicine

Ken Burns’ The Mayo Clinic explores what makes Mayo great, but the hospital has strayed from Catholic roots
FILM & TV

Mind over mission

Quasi space adventure Ad Astra explores a son coming to terms with the father who abandoned him

Servants and lords

Unequal station doesn’t mean unequal respect in Downton Abbey
Music

New CCM releases

New or recent albums

Singing dirty

Lana Del Rey lets fans have their philosophy and enjoy it too
 
Q&A
Rethinking the system

Rethinking the system

Inside the machinery of criminal justice
Books

Novels from Christian publishers

Ignoring God

Anything but the blood of Jesus?
Children's Books

Read and discuss

Four books from Christian authors

NOTEBOOK
Lifestyle
Learning dependence
Health problems taught David and Ruth Daumer to rely on each other (Fourth in a series on long marriages)
Lifestyle
People sold here
A Nigerian port city bears sober testament to the transatlantic slave trade 
Politics
North to South
The summer migration crisis sparked a big migration for border officers too 
Politics
Decades of fighting
An 80-year-old democracy activist sees a new generation take up his cause
Sports
Key role players
Behind the scenes with some of the people who make a baseball game happen