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November 1, 2024 | Vol. 39, No. 16

Election Guide: Competing visions for America

Contests and ballot measures worth watching on election night


FEATURES
The abortion albatross?

Timothy Lamer | The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision played a major role in the last midterm election, but it appears likely to have a minimal effect in this year’s contest

Voting with their feet

Marci Seither, Elizabeth Russell | California’s conservative exodus is eroding its national political influence

That old devil music

Larry Schweikart | ESSAY | How rock ’n’ roll helped bring down the Berlin Wall

Sacrificial lambs

Addie Offereins | How the nation’s leading trans activist group put winning court battles ahead of patient well-being

Critical care

Onize Oduah | Staffing shortages in the West are luring nurses from Africa, where hospitals desperately need them


CULTURE
TRENDING

A second act

TRENDING | Popular retelling of the Gospel stories won’t end with the Resurrection

Books

Disenchantment and truth

BOOKS | Rod Dreher highlights the failures of our secular age

Uncovering truth and error: eight books

BOOKS | Fiction, criminology, religious history, and more

Beauty and brokenness

BOOKS | How artists use great suffering to create

A justice’s life

BOOKS | Conservative upbringing, liberal policies

Golden songs and promises

BOOKS | Reflective moments for families preparing for Christmas celebrations

Digestible doctrine

BOOKS | Kevin DeYoung offers an accessible guide to Reformed systematic theology

Unearthing the roots of critical theory

BOOKS | Carl Trueman investigates the thinkers behind an un-Biblical philosophy

Baptizing Hollywood

BOOKS | Films for All Seasons attempts to integrate movie watching into the church calendar

Children's Books

A medley of middle grade reads

CHILDREN’S BOOKS | Daring adventures and a classic reimagined

 
FILM & TV

Stolen Time

DOCUMENTARY | A needed examination of nursing home abuse focuses too much on the victims’ attorney

Conclave

MOVIE | Masterful performances and an unsatisfying plot twist in a psychological drama about church polity

Moonflower Murders

TELEVISION | New PBS series features three mysteries in one

Coming soon

MOVIES | A look at upcoming November releases

Lost on a Mountain in Maine

MOVIE | The inspiring true story of a boy who survived the wilderness

Music

Songs born from a crisis of faith

MUSIC | Josh Lovelace’s music grows up

New and noteworthy

MUSIC | Reviews of four albums

Disparate albums with a common core

MUSIC | New releases from Nick Cave and Laurie Anderson

New and singable CCM

MUSIC | Four offerings from Christian musicians

Masterworks

Overwhelmed by the pain of this world

MASTERWORKS | Lessons from Laocoön and His Sons

Quest

History as guide to past, present, and future

QUEST | Four books that shaped my thinking


NOTEBOOK
Lifestyle
Days of gratitude

LIFESTYLE | Thanksgiving traditions around the world

Politics
Non-endorsement season

POLITICS | Unions choose not to back a presidential candidate

Technology
Mining of minds?

TECHNOLOGY | States crack down on brain data sales

Religion
“The church is not tired”

RELIGION | Evangelical pastors in Ukraine say that despite the war, congregations are flourishing

Education
Suing for work

EDUCATION | Undocumented students seek access to campus jobs

Money
Retirement rankings

MONEY | Amid worry, Americans raise retirement contributions

Sports
Setting things right

SPORTS | As college volleyball teams forfeit in protest of a transgender player from San José State University, one teammate fights to protect women’s sports