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
No ordinary time
Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination underscores the battles to come over Roe v. Wade and religious liberty
Mistaken identity
Aiming to halt Chinese threats, the U.S. government sometimes labels innocent researchers as spies
Blood in the streets, tension in the air
Shootings are up across the United States, while some communities try to rebuild trust with police
Plot twists and poll numbers
A rancorous debate, a presidential COVID-19 diagnosis, and a high-stakes Supreme Court nomination set an unpredictable stage for the 2020 election
Voices
Mindy Belz
A historic finish
Few can boast of opening a new business during a pandemic, but Mohamad Hafez did just that. This summer he launched Pistachio, a French baroque, salon-styled coffee shop in West Haven, Conn., serving...
The Editors
Mailbag
Question about QAnon ...
Marvin Olasky
IN-famous doctrines
In ¡Three Amigos!, a funny 1986 movie, one particular word puzzles Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase): “What does that mean? Infamous?” Ned Nederlander (Martin Short) responds, “Infamous is when you’re more...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Highway lessons
Whenever I’m driving through unfamiliar urban terrain, the same line from the Bible comes to mind. I don’t have to conjure it; it just comes “as the sparks fly upward,” to quote Job. Here it is: “In...
Janie B. Cheaney
Land mismanagement
We timed it just right last year, when my sister and I fulfilled a long-standing ambition to visit Yosemite National Park for our annual fall camping excursion. “Camping” has become more of a spectrum...
Joel Belz
Third party?
By my latest calculation, the roughly half-million people who make up WORLD’s readers and listeners each week are likely to divide their votes next month among three different groupings: ...
Notebook
Religion
Joy comes to Happy Jack
They will know we are Christians by our love,” sang 40 gray-haired members of Blue Ridge Community Church in Happy Jack on a brisk Sunday morning. The refrain could be the motto of the church, but it...
History
A veteran adjusts to bigger plans
Third in a series on war veterans ...
Health
A battle against two viruses
Portia Makamba-Otto, a South African mother of four, first found out she had contracted COVID-19 in June when her flulike symptoms intensified after a week. Her husband took her to a hospital in the...
Culture
Music
Comeback kids
Wrong Way Up by Eno/Cale: So long were the avant-garde/underground shadows that Brian Eno and John Cale cast at the time of this electro-pop hookfest’s first appearance that not even the version of ...
Music
Reinventing a classical classic
“I felt a need to revisit a classical work in my own manner,” says the composer Pierre Henry in the 2007 documentary Pierre Henry: The Art of Sounds. “It was at that time that I chose to write a 10th...
Q&A
Borderland power plays
After a month of skirmishes over their disputed border, Indian and Chinese soldiers fought hand-to-hand and with rudimentary weapons on June 15 high in the Himalayan Mountains at Galwan Valley in...
Children's Books
Colorful creatures
Whoo-ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story by Maria Gianferrari: In this nonfiction book about great horned owls, Gianferrari limits herself to the haiku form. She covers a season in the owl life cycle:...
Books
On the home front
Becoming a King by Morgan Snyder: When Snyder experienced a season of pain and questioning in his life, he sought counsel from older, wiser Christian men. Consistent themes emerged from men who had...
Books
Answering objections
Everyday Apologetics: Answering Common Objections to the Christian Faith, edited by Paul Chamberlain and Chris Price (Lexham, 2020), suggests many good rejoinders. For example, if critics complain...
Movies & TV
Living well while dying
What sounds depressing—a teen’s diagnosis with osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer—became the impetus for an inspiring new PG-13 movie from Disney+. ...
Movies & TV
Missing the mark
The Keeper is a new film inspired by the life of Bert Trautmann, a German soldier who became a star goalkeeper for the Manchester City football (soccer) team. Trautmann (David Kross) stays in England...
Movies & TV
Herbaceous lessons
Minari is a beautifully told family drama loosely based on the childhood experiences of writer and director Lee Isaac Chung. ...
Movies & TV
Lo-fi afterlife
The new film Heaven offers a positive message of hope for people broken by sin and sorrow. But artistic and theological quirks detract from the film starring, written, and directed by Angus Benfield....
Movies & TV
Mystery makeover
We’ve seen plenty of Sherlock Holmes variations in recent years, but with the possible exception of Hugh Laurie’s doctor on House, I don’t know that we’ve seen one as creative as Sherlock interpreted...
