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Marvin Olasky

Marvin Olasky is former editor-in-chief at World magazine and is now chairman of Zenger House and an Acton Institute affiliate scholar. He writes a weekly column on homelessness for the Fix Homelessness website and a monthly Olasky Books newsletter.

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 2)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 13, 2025

Atheism to radicalism

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Introduction and Chapter 1)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 6, 2025

Over the next twenty-two weeks, you can read a chapter from Marvin Olasky’s memoir every Thursday.

Farewell for now

Marvin Olasky   |  December 10, 2024

The 2025 circus will be fascinating to watch, and this is my note to Current readers that I’ll now be at a different vantage point.

Covering up a genitalia remark

Marvin Olasky   |  October 22, 2024

A partisan press at work.

Cheering for baseball teams and presidential candidates

Marvin Olasky   |  October 17, 2024

What to do when neither sports nor politics offer us our first choice to cheer for?

From 93 to 1:27

Marvin Olasky   |  October 9, 2024

Some of us see the 2024 election as another Flight 93 election. I see it as a Genesis 1:27.

Looking for optimism

Marvin Olasky   |  October 8, 2024

Brief reflections on this weekend’s Front Porch Republic conference.

Literally peevish

Marvin Olasky   |  September 30, 2024

I am literally typing this. I do not literally have steam blowing out of my ears.

Abortion decision-making: slow down vs. speed up

Marvin Olasky   |  September 26, 2024

Why does the number of abortions in America appear to be rising?

Echo chamber evidence

Marvin Olasky   |  September 18, 2024

Echo chambers make for poor journalism.

Deadly reporting

Marvin Olasky   |  September 12, 2024

Double Jeopardy for $1,000: Members of this occupation set up the deaths of thousands of Gaza residents.

Tolstoy, Melville, Wright: Morons

Marvin Olasky   |  September 9, 2024

Evangelicals should thank Wright and be at peace with him.

30th Anniversary: Wins and losses concerning 3D ultrasound

Marvin Olasky   |  September 6, 2024

What difference did the 3D ultrasound make for the prolife movement?

40th Anniversary: A rare press victory and a longer loss

Marvin Olasky   |  September 5, 2024

That time the pro-abortion Austin American Statesman did a hit job on a local crisis pregnancy center.

50th Anniversary: A unique newspaper selfie

Marvin Olasky   |  September 4, 2024

A brief Golden Anniversary memory of a brave journalist, David Shaw.

Life as a reality show

Marvin Olasky   |  August 27, 2024

Angels in the audience watch us on stage and learn how God’s grace operates.

What should a good reporter do all day?

Marvin Olasky   |  August 22, 2024

Some denominations within Christianity have patron saints. In overwhelmingly secular journalism, reporters normally don’t think about patron saints, but I’d like to suggest from the Bible a patron psalm. Psalm 73 begins with a careful observer’s confession of depression: “As […]

Joyfully embracing abortion, or sorrowfully claiming necessity?

Marvin Olasky   |  August 21, 2024

Almost a half-century ago, Magda Denes came out with In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital. It’s still the only defense of abortion that I recommend to people.

Objective drama, subjective actors

Marvin Olasky   |  August 2, 2024

In which Marvin Olasky poses a question to Current readers.

God and the political butterfly effect

Marvin Olasky   |  August 1, 2024

How might we think about God and political history?

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