Beyond platform shoes
WORLD’s 2018 Books of the Year
More than inspirational
Joni Eareckson Tada’s half-century as a quadriplegic and a disabilities advocate is far more than a story of human endurance. It’s a Christ-exalting example of a courageous truth Christians don’t always embrace: ‘When I am weak, then I am strong’
Tax reform trick or treat?
The GOP tax plan could benefit some Americans but discourage charity—and would add to a growing mountain of debt
Hundreds of thousands to help
Christian missionaries offer assistance to Rohingya Muslims amid a state-driven humanitarian crisis
Not exactly Indiana Jones
Sloppiness and misdirection led to federal investigators confiscating thousands of smuggled items from Hobby Lobby’s Bible collection. Now as the Museum of the Bible opens, scholars wonder what will happen to the confiscated artifacts
Voices
Mindy Belz
The church that birthed America
AMSTERDAM—The brick alleyway leading to an inner courtyard may be lined with bicycles, but inside the cloister and across the lawn the English Reformed Church stands as it has since 1607. ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
The sunny side
I’ve always wanted to be an optimist because they are fun to be around. Instead I became a Christian. Which is an optimist but with good reasons. If I were not a Christian, I would be utterly...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘Casting corporate bread upon the waters’ ...
Joel Belz
Playing favorites
We all have our favorites. Whether we’re talking about restaurants, college football teams, preachers, vacation resort sites, math teachers, novels, hospitals, or classical music composers, it’s just...
Marvin Olasky
Lessons learned
When editing WORLD during the 1990s and 2000s, I looked at other magazines and saw their cover stories about books their editors had just published. By not even mentioning in WORLD my books or those...
Janie B. Cheaney
Dangerous intersections
A charming little video on YouTube features schoolchildren explaining to each other what “intersectionality” is. To them it means identity: the combination of factors, like skin color, gender, and...
Notebook
Politics
Avoiding the midterm panic
We’re now a year away from the 2018 congressional midterm elections. The media and most pundits are convinced the midterms will be good news for Democrats because of President Donald Trump’s low...
Technology
Optics of an earthquake
The makings of a sophisticated earthquake detection system may already exist under our feet. Researchers at Stanford University have shown that the existing fiber optic cables that provide high-speed...
Lifestyle
After the fires
SANTA ROSA, Calif.—As newly married and newly saved hippies, my in-laws once lost their few possessions in a flood that submerged the tree house they built and lived in on an Oregon communal property....
Culture
Children's Books
Middle-school stories
Dirt ...
Books
WORLD Radio Classic Books
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ...
Music
New or recent releases
Vaughan Williams: Job, Symphony No. 9 ...
Movies & TV
Through the eyes of animals
At Christmastime, you’d have to have the heart of a Grinch not to enjoy curling up on the couch with little ones to watch animated holiday classics like Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
Movies & TV
Eric Liddell in China
Little-known fact: In the 1940s, while Germans tortured Jews across Europe and Americans incarcerated Japanese on the West Coast, the Japanese interned in China a group of civilians from Allied...
Movies & TV
Brave and uncertain
In May 1940, Winston Churchill rose to power as prime minister, faced the crisis of Dunkirk, and gave one of the most iconic political speeches of our time. ...
Books
High-tech, near-monopoly menaces
Franklin Foer’s World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Penguin, 2017) calls for antitrust action against near-monopolies like Google and Facebook. He notes that AT&T founder...
Movies & TV
Superhero froth
One upside to the fact that nearly half of all major studio releases these days seem to be superhero movies is that at least we’re getting lots of different kinds of superhero movies. In just the last...
Q&A
Eastern upheaval
Ian Johnson is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the persecution of Falun Gong adherents in China. His new book is The Souls of China: The...
Music
Hard time, soft rock
When the Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jon Troast debuted in World magazine eight years ago, he was surviving as an independent musician by performing unplugged in the homes of his fans. They...
Dispatches
Human Race
Human Race
Revealed ...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Taking the cake ...
Quotables
Quotables
‘The NFL has hurt us.’ ...
News
By the numbers
30% The percentage of Americans who say they are fearful of walking alone near their homes at night—a 52-year low, according to Gallup. $9.1 billion The estimated amount spent on Halloween fe...