A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
The high cost of negligence
When pastors, churches, and other caregivers fail to report sexual abuse, they may aid and abet crime–and in some states are subject to prosecution themselves–along with subjecting abuse victims to lifelong trauma
Grand new party?
The California Republican convention reveals a reduced and ideologically divided party but one also beginning to reach out to the state’s diverse population
Debtors' prison
The most rapidly growing class of debt in America belongs to the country’s newest wage earners and its youngest taxpayers
Not bluffing
Moody board chairman and top author Jerry B. Jenkins is among Christians who have taken up tournament poker. Is evangelical opposition to it about to fold?
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
Hall of Fame heralds
In my kitchen sits a stack of old Westminster Seminary student directories. The cover of the 2001/2002 issue displays a 1978 photograph of Cornelius Van Til and Jack Miller drawing a crowd as they...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Crisis begets crisis’ Sept. 21 Why would we go to war in Syria? To stop Syrians from using chemicals to kill women and children? The same thing is legal and occurs in abortion clinic...
Marvin Olasky
Religious test
If Fox Sports had fired football analyst Craig James because he went off on an anti-homosexual tirade during a game broadcast, that would be fair. But when James in 2012 said gay civil unions are ...
Joel Belz
Looking around the corner
If you were to point to the single biggest cultural shift in American society during your lifetime, what would you mention? If I asked you instead to list the three or four biggest cultural shifts...
Janie B. Cheaney
Science supremacists
There’s a fight going on in the pages of The New Republic. Over the last couple of months, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has been duking it out with Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of t...
Mindy Belz
While the centrifuges spin
Here’s what we do know about Iran. As of a year ago it had 2,100 centrifuges in an underground site, and by using them was intensifying its production of nuclear fuel. The International Atomic Ene...
Notebook
Houses of God
Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs
The flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) flutters on the pointed dome of the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on...
Sports
Whole new ballgames
It’s obvious that soccer is growing in popularity in the United States, but so are lesser-known sports like rugby and curling, along with a new annual competition, the CrossFit Games, which featur...
Money
Yellow brick road
On Aug. 15, 1971, Richard Nixon took the final steps that removed the U.S. dollar from the gold standard, and economists have been fighting about it ever since. In one corner are liberal Ke...
Technology
Social secrets
Remember “metadata”? When news organizations began disclosing documents in June leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden, Americans learned their government was loggi...
Religion
Relative Rome?
A new poll by Quinnipiac University indicates that most American Catholics are pleased with Pope Francis, even as some conservative critics have begun to worry about the pope’s perceived equivocat...
Lifestyle
Still going strong
Brothers Dean Hatch, 84, and Ron Hatch, 74, are still in the workforce. Dean, the grandfather of five, is a contracting officer in the Department of Defense, while Ron, the grandfather of nine, wo...
Culture
Notable Books
Notable Books
In 1970 Julia Child was already a TV star, James Beard was writing cookbooks, and M.F.K Fisher discoursed about food, but they reached only a well-educated sliver of Americans. Using his great-aun...
Movies & TV
I'm in Love with a Church Girl
I’m in Love with a Church Girl has all the elements of an entertaining movie: blazing guns, beautiful faces, drugs and alcohol, love and death—but without the gore, the bad language, and the sex. ...
Movies & TV
Captain Phillips
As Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) boards his massive cargo liner stacked with Maersk freight and climbs to his cabin, he halfheartedly checks several gate locks. Some gates are open, and even when c...
Movies & TV
Box Office Top 10
Cautions: Quantity of sexual (S), violent (V), and foul-language (L) content on a 0-10 scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com S ...
Movies & TV
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup, the central figure in 12 Years a Slave, was a real person, a freedman of New York who was kidnapped while on a business trip to Washington, D.C., and sold into slavery. Northup re...
Q&A
Under conviction
Pastor E.W. Jackson, 61, is the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps, graduated from Harvard Law School, and practiced law until 1997. He then fo...
Music
Riveting naïveté
American Radical Patriot (Rounder) is a six-CD, one-DVD, one-78-RPM record, and one-256-page-biography box set that sheds essential light on America’s most important folk singer, Woody Guthrie. ...
Books
Recoveries, crises, and falls
Two new books have as a crucial figure Carl Henry, the Christianity Today editor who wrote columns for WORLD in the early 1990s. Gregory Thornbury, in Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying t...
Movies & TV
Reading Red
It happens every October. Television executives anxiously pore over Nielsen ratings, and a few short days or weeks later the streets of Hollywood run red with the blood of new series, unceremoniou...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
I'll Find a WayInnocentsCluck Ol’ Hen (Live)Spotlight...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
Baker, 59, leavens his sketches of beautiful blue-collar losers, each too unflinchingly individualized for a stereotype, with a residue of old-time religion. Old-time religious music figures as we...
Dispatches
Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead
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Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead
Oct. 28 India’s most significant space mission ever will commence today when its Mars Orbiter Mission takes off from the southern part of the country. Complications could push the launch ba...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Big wheels keep on turning If Judah Schiller’s idea catches on, the port authority may have to set up bike lanes on the Hudson River. That’s because on Oct. 3, Schiller tested his prototype...
Quotables
Quotables
‘I can walk and chew gum at the same time.’ Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, in response to a question about whether he might run for president in 2016, which if he wins reelection c...
News
Aid fade
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David Accords on March 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C., formally ending 31 years of war. The pact has kept the two nations from open conflict for th...
News
Dispatches
SHUTDOWN FROWNS: Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. (right), pauses during a news conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill on Oct. 12. The federal government remaine...
Human Race
Human Race
Died Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 88, the second American to orbit the earth, died on Oct. 10 from complications after a stroke. Carpenter, the backup pilot for John Glenn, circled the globe ...