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World Magazine

The making of Joel Belz

Marvin Olasky   |  February 5, 2024

Joel Belz’s life story displays the strengths of American evangelicalism at its height.

Albert Mohler responds to David Brooks’ essay on evangelical reformers

John Fea   |  February 7, 2022

Writing at WORLD magazine, the latest imperial conquest of the fundamentalist fiefdom over which he presides, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler has responded to David Brooks’s recent New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters. Let’s break it down: […]

Marvin Olasky discusses his resignation from World magazine

John Fea   |  November 19, 2021

We covered this here and here. Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: Olasky had hoped to end his tenure as editor-in-chief, which began in 1994, in the summer of 2022. Those plans changed after World’s publisher announced the […]

The changing of the guard continues at WORLD magazine

John Fea   |  November 17, 2021

Earlier this week we covered Marvin Olasky’s resignation as editor of World magazine. The fallout continues. Yesterday Angela LuFulton, World‘s managing editor, announced her resignation. Here is the statement she published on Twitter: As I wrote earlier this week: “To […]

Marvin Olasky is out at World; Al Mohler is in. The age of “compassionate conservatism” is now officially over

John Fea   |  November 15, 2021

The post-Trump differences in American evangelicalism continue to sharpen. Marvin Olasky has edited the evangelical magazine World since 1994. Olasky is best known as the architect of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.” On November 1, 2021, Olasky resigned from the […]