False convictions, ruined lives
False rape accusations may be statistically ‘rare,’ but they happen every day in the United States
False convictions, ruined lives
False rape accusations may be statistically ‘rare,’ but they happen every day in the United States
Confronting a crisis
After Cyclone Idai ravages South African nations, Christian aid workers provide immediate help but also warn of a larger disaster looming
Cambodian casinoville
Chinese wealth is transforming the formerly sleepy beach town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, into a tourist and gambling hot spot—and many locals aren’t happy about it
Turnaround town
Chattanooga’s reinvention—and those left behind
Voices
Janie B. Cheaney
Robespierre’s road
What could be more genteel than a meeting of academic classicists? Imagine scholars in tweed jackets subtly correcting each other’s Greek as they compare translations of Thucydides and debate the...
The Editors
Mailbag
Pressure to conform ...
Mindy Belz
Population concentration
New York City’s metropolitan area became the world’s first megacity in the 1930s, when its population passed the 10 million mark. By 2015 New York City had fallen to No. 9 in a rapidly urbanizing...
Joel Belz
Mind shapers
It may have been only 20 weeks since Election Day, but we’re already hard at it again. So may I remind you, as I have before in this space, of a lesson that seems hard for us to learn: Government isn...
Marvin Olasky
Stimulating simulations
The observable universe contains more than 100 billion galaxies. Our galaxy alone, popularly known as the Milky Way, has more than 100 billion stars. Does that make you yearn for those days of...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Silent crossing
On the last day of the year in A.D. 406, aided by a land bridge of frozen ice, a band of barbarians crossed from the east to the west bank of the Rhine and into the territory of a doomed Roman...
Notebook
Science
Hazards in the lab
The United States government has quietly resumed funding for certain high-risk viral experiments that regulators had blocked for four years, according to a February report by Science magazine. ...
Religion
The great divide
At a breakfast gathering in St. Louis on the first morning of a special meeting of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in February, Jerry Kulah set the table for the events of the next few days. ...
Law
‘It’s a free country’
One well-publicized case ended this month in a slight win for religious liberty and freedom of speech. The City of Bloomington, Minn., gave up on its case against Ramin Parsa and agreed not to pursue...
Lifestyle
Miracles in Munich
On an August Sunday afternoon, the streets of central Munich, Germany, showed signs of approaching Oktoberfest: Huge beer tents filled the festival grounds and hundreds of temporary cell towers were...
Media
A matter of attribution
In 2017, WORLD named as its “Series of the Year” the Reformed Expository Commentary from P&R Publishing. Various Reformed pastor-scholars authored the volumes in the series, drawing from their own...
Journals
Metro Minute
Chess with Tani
A New York moment: ...
Sophia's World
My immigrant experience
When I immigrated to the United States, people told me stories about America that scared the socks off of me. ...
Whirled Views
Words to the wise
One of the most memorable emails I’ve received in my work as a journalist was from someone unhappy about a story I wrote on climate change. The reader was blunt. “I can’t decide,” he wrote, “whether...
Snapshots of China
Anniversary of an uprising
March 10 marked the 60th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India. Around the world, Tibetan supporters held rallies on Sunday with...
Metro Minute
Rocks in our heads
A New York moment: ...
Sophia's World
The allure of America
When I first started reading about the thousands of migrants traveling from Central America through Mexico to seek asylum in the United States, I (like many fellow Americans) asked this logical...
Culture
Movies & TV
The Savior on Earth
In 2013, the History Channel scored cable’s most-watched entertainment show with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s miniseries The Bible. The series proved so popular the filmmakers were able to...
Music
Words with jazz
Ken Nordine, the possessor of one of the greatest speaking voices ever committed to tape, died in February. He was 98. ...
Music
New or recent albums
FYAH ...
Children's Books
Stories for the heart
The Very Best Story Ever Told: The Gospel with American Sign Language ...
Books
Four books offering Christian encouragement
Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness ...
