Gettin' on board the gay marriage train

Same-sex advocates ruled the public arena surrounding Supreme Court arguments for two landmark cases. But it’s far from certain the legal locomotion on marriage is ready to roll

Countercultural warriors

Some Christian millennials are very publicly standing apart from their generation to defend marriage

Braggin' on their King

Trip Lee and Andy Mineo are Christian rappers taking different paths to serve their Lord

Finding freedom

Imprisoned in Iran for almost a year, Christians Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Maryam Rostampour now can share their ordeal: ‘In Evin Prison, everything is a shock’

Violent tendencies

Hollywood loudly denounces guns—as it uses on-screen gun violence to rack up killer ratings

Voices

Janie B. Cheaney

Cross purposes

We call them Millennials; another name might be Generation Awesome. One of the most extensive polls of young adult attitudes is the Freshman Survey, which since 1966 has queried roughly 9 million ...

The Editors

Mailbag

‘When cities rot’ March 9 A city will rot over time when Christians choose the comforts of their social club over the difficulties of presenting Christ in the marketplace. Christ call...

Marvin Olasky

Serious times

Two fishermen walked into the woods … We interrupt the annual joke column for a special announcement: For three years I’ve tried to relieve tax time depression and exhaustion by offering so...

Andrée Seu Peterson

Mission accomplished

It is telling of my boxed-up imagination that it took me eight years to start praying for Bubba with the missionaries instead of with the inmates. He is in prison, that’s a fact, but he is God’s m...

Mindy Belz

In all the noise, sounds of silence

We editors at WORLD have had a hard time—not with knowing where we stand on gay marriage but knowing how to punctuate it. After several readers chastised us for using the term “gay marriage...

Joel Belz

Nice going

A number of years ago, I suggested in this space that you can fairly easily take every acquaintance you have and pigeonhole that person into one of four categories: 1) People who you think ...

Notebook

Lifestyle

Life changer

This is a story of a film that celebrates life saving—and changed the filmmaker’s life. In December 2011, University of Southern California junior Brian Ivie and his crew of 10 flew to Seou...

Houses of God

First Indian Presbyterian Church

Established by Presbyterian missionaries to the Nez Perce Indians in 1871 (with the building finished in 1873), the First Indian Presbyterian Church in Kamiah, Idaho, continues to hold s...

Sports

Pitch perfect

Boos rained down as Philip Humber walked off the pitching mound at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago for the final time in 2012. Humber, 30, had just given up eight runs while recording only one out ...

Money

Up from the ashes

Georgia-based Angel Food Ministries (AFM) started as a great idea: Buy large quantities of food in bulk and sell it to poor families cheaply, using churches as distribution points. By cutting out ...

Technology

Buggy border

Most of the fences straddling portions of the 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico are made of concrete, steel, wire mesh, and sometimes chain link. Another fence is invisible: I...

Science

Heather has two mommies

Some women in the United Kingdom could soon give birth to babies with genes from a father and two mothers, if Parliament approves the idea. The country’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authori...

Religion

Anglican challenges

Justin Welby has become the new archbishop of Canterbury, the clerical head of the Anglican Church, a global Christian communion with approximately 77 million adherents. His appointment followed t...

Culture

Movies & TV

To the Wonder

If impressionistic filmmaking ever gets a patron saint, his name might be Terrence Malick. Sparse dialogue, nonlinear narratives, and visually breathtaking scenes are Malick’s calling cards. He of...

Movies & TV

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Paramount was wise to move the release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (rated PG-13 for combat action, mild language, and one non-nude undressing scene) from June 2012 to early spring 2013, a time when i...

Movies & TV

Tyler Perry's Temptation

Marital infidelity can break lives, break hearts, and break families—as Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor seeks to convey. The PG-13 film tells the story of a young cou...

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 ...

Q&A

Jungle journalism

Tucker Carlson, 43, is editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, a three-year-old political news site. He’s also a Fox News commentator and has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and an...

Music

Shocked treatment

Two days after the Ides of March, the roots-rocker Michelle Shocked initiated a Julius Caesar–like assassination of her career by addressing gay marriage from the stage of San Francisco’s Yoshi’s ...

Books

Spring sampling

It’s the baseball season, thanks be to God, and Intentional Walk by Rob Rains (Thomas Nelson, 2013) has lively chapters on St. Louis manager Mike Matheny and other Cardinals who profess Christ, in...

Notable CDs

Bowie has now been releasing “comeback” albums for longer than he released the albums that defined wherever it is he’s coming back to. But this much-ballyhooed effort is impressive. Musically, it ...

Notable Books

“Motherhood was something I planned for, something I wanted, so why was living it out so drastically different from my expectations?” This was Sarah Mae’s question during another difficult, tiring...

Movies & TV

Historic number

A new generation of Americans is about to discover the man who broke major league baseball’s color barrier: Before Rosa Parks, Freedom Riders, and Martin Luther King Jr., there was Jackie Robinson. ...

Dispatches

News

Technology fail

While ultrasound technology may bolster pro-life efforts in the United States by producing vivid photos of unborn children, the same technology has produced an opposite effect in China: Many famil...

Human Race

Died Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, known as the father of African literature, died on March 21 at 82. Achebe was most famous for his 1958 workThings Fall Apart, which The New York Tim...

Looking Ahead

Liberal Party elections Voting for the next leader of Canada’s Liberal Party will end April 14 when the left-of-center group announces its winner. Polls leading up to the contest sho...

Quick Takes

A Bridge too far After three years of deliberation, officials at the Internal Revenue Service are finally ready to admit the $60,000 Star Trek–themed training video they commissioned may ha...

Quotables

‘Pray.’ NASA chief Charles Bolden’s advice for addressing the potential threat of a large asteroid hitting Earth. Bolden spoke at a congressional hearing on the threat after an asteroid rec...

News

Silent testimony in a region aflame

A frightening scene at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Benghazi offered a glimpse into worsening conditions for Egyptian Christians living in Libya: In mid-March, militants set the church ablaze wit...

News

Rhetoric and run-up

U.S.-based aid groups are continuing to supply aid to North Korea—despite threats of war from Pyongyang against South Korea and the United States. “At this point, there has been no effect o...

News

A work of art

Edith Rachel Merritt Seville Schaeffer died on March 30, 2013, at 98 and at home in Gryon, Switzerland. She moved there 13 years ago, surrounded by memories, her music, her son’s paintings, and de...