Demand a plan.

That is the rally cry of a recent, celebrity-packed advertisement calling for an end to gun violence in the United States. The black-and-white spot features an impressive array of actors and other A-list celebrities entreating the public to “act now” to make the country safer. The superstars invoke the memory of mass shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Aurora, and, most recently, Newtown.

When filmmakers David Altrogge and Michael Hartnett heard the Pennsylvania State Capitol would give press access to a state Senate hearing about abortionist Kermit Gosnell and his participation in eight deaths, they grabbed a camera and headed over.

In 1993, searchers for three missing 8-year-old boys found their bodies in a drainage ditch in West Memphis, Ark. Investigators believed that because of the injuries to the boys’ bodies, the murders were the result of a satanic ritual. A year later, a jury convicted three West Memphis teenagers, one of whom had journaled about the occult, of the murders. The court sentenced Jessie Misskelley Jr., 18, and Jason Baldwin, 16, to life in prison, and Damien Echols, 19, to death.

Here’s one last set of extra comments from Micheal Flaherty, president of Walden Media. Our interview with him is in the Dec. 15 issue, and we ran previous outtakes on WORLDmag.com on Wednesday and Thursday.

The current print issue of WORLD includes an interview with Micheal Flaherty, president of Walden Media, that we stopped at our usual two pages (see also “Micheal Flaherty on naming a company, fighting for educational justice,” Dec. 5, and "Micheal Flaherty on homeschooling and movies themes").

Micheal Flaherty is best known as co-founder and president of Walden Media, which created the Narnia movies and others like Amazing Grace, but he’s an education reformer at heart. Before founding Walden in 2001, Flaherty developed innovative curricula in the Boston Public School System that helped some poor students succeed.  

“Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?” (Psalm 94:20)

That’s what I read on the morning of Election Day. That evening, my nerves were not up to speculating on exit polls, so I retreated to the guest house and popped my latest Netflix title into the DVD player: For Greater Glory. Turned out to be a good choice.