Watch and wait
Election night could provide a quick White House winner, or a flood of mail-in ballots and social division could delay results for weeks
Remaking America
A transformational presidency begins at a transformational moment
A spring in the march
Young pro-lifers showed up in large numbers at the annual March for Life
Mission to Metropolis
Eric Metaxas and other New York Christians speak the language of the city to reach a lost tribe: America's cultural elites
Help wanted
America in recession is doubly hard on its new arrivals
Voices
Mindy Belz
Their blood cries out
The first problem at Guantanamo is not the food or the cages or the interrogations or any extrajudicial powers allegedly claimed by the Bush White House. The first problem at Guantanamo is that ju...
Pause for reflection
I'm looking forward to Time in the Wilderness. It's a phrase one must now capitalize, so often has it been repeated about American conservatives, and American Christians, and especially those Amer...
Janie B. Cheaney
Surprised by Jack
Nearly every Christian with a liking toward fantasy has their favorite Narnia book, Narnia scene, or Narnia character. But so do many non-Christians. C.S. Lewis' classic children's books are a mil...
Joel Belz
Phasing out sacrifice
Like every other smart merchandiser in this bewildering climate, President Barack Obama is lowering his prices. Before he took office, price tags everywhere announced that nothing less than "sacri...
The Editors
Mailbag
Toward His goal As I read WORLD's columns and Mailbag letters regarding the elections and financial crises we are facing ("2008 News of the year," Dec. 27), I was discouraged. I don't know ...
Marvin Olasky
Dialogue with Darwinists
Darwinists are celebrating this month the 150th anniversary of the publication of their hero's breakthrough book, On the Origin of Species. Christians who respond with ridicule of Darwin get nowhe...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Group thinking
A big determinant of your hermeneutics is the people you sit next to in church. Calvin, Barth, Bultmann, and Meredith Kline have all trickled down to you a little, but they don't hold a candle to ...
Culture
Books
Journalistic pretension
I've been a fan of columnist Peggy Noonan, but her latest book, Patriotic Grace (HarperCollins, 2008), seems almost like a parody of her earlier, sprightly work. She gives ominous warnings, emits ...
Movies & TV
On the small screen
What's worth your time this TV season? Here are a few picks. American Idol: There is a reason this is the most watched show on TV. Aside from the fun of watching self-deluded posers and sna...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
Style: A revisiting by Green at 62 of the velvety romantic Memphis soul that he perfected when he was in his 20s. Worldview: "[I] like you / early in the morning, / smile on your face. / La...
Notable Books
Notable books
Using the musician Asaph as narrator, this novel offers a comprehensive tour of King David's long life; for instance, Gustafson covers David and Absalom's relationship in several chapters toward t...
Movies & TV
Town values
New in Town stars Renee Zellweger as Lucy, an up-and-coming executive in a large corporation. She's sent from Florida to frigid Minnesota to run-and downsize-a factory. Lucy, although smart enough...
Movies & TV
Missing the magic
It's hard to go wrong with source material like the children's fantasy novel Inkheart. German author Cornelia Funke's series about a girl who discovers that her father can bring stories to life by...
Music
Love songs
Half a century ago Flannery O'Connor asked how Christian writers can communicate the idea that man needs a redeemer to a culture that believes no such redemption is needed. Her advice was to shock...
Music
Trophy inflation
This year the Grammy Awards turn 51, and whether one considers them an entertaining show or an overlong infomercial for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), there's a growi...
Books
College crush
Charles Murray has done it again. Murray is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., but he is best known for books that are scholarly yet read...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Shell game Say what you will about one New York thief: At least he was thorough. Walter U. Tessier returned a $10.99 lobster to an Amsterdam, N.Y., Price Chopper supermarket saying the crus...
Quotables
Quotables
"That's what my story is-a Frank Capra movie." Impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, arguing that he's like the Capra heroes who fought corruption. "I'm not the first person...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Habit-forming A cold day in Moscow brought a cold-blooded end to the life of Stanislav Markelov, a Russian human-rights lawyer devoted to battling Russian abuses of Chechens. A masked assai...