World View: Seeking Grace and Truth in Our Common Life

by Marvin Olasky

Publisher:

New Growth Press

, 2017

Overview

How could our world be different if Christians were recognized for not only speaking the truth, but also demonstrating mercy? What would our lives be like if we reacted to our common culture with not just biblical facts, but also grace and compassion?

For more than 25 years, Marvin Olasky has offered this kind of viewpoint in his columns as the Editor-in-Chief of World Magazine, the leading news magazine written with a Christian perspective. In this collection of far-ranging columns, Olasky’s commentary on world events and affairs, as well as his own personal interactions, encourages readers to respond with both grace and truth in every encounter.

A leading voice for standing for biblical truth in the public square, Olasky also believes Christians should incorporate the biblical virtues of humility, kindness, and mercy in all of life. His call for biblical values to include both truth and mercy makes his voice stand out in a world that often falsely divides those goals and settles for a poor imitation of the robust Christianity described in Scripture. These short and punchy columns offer readers a new way to consider challenges in today's world and shows them how to respond to any encounter biblically, but not hysterically, providing a wake-up call for the complacent, while also calming the frantic.

Regular readers of World will want to have this 60-column collection for their own library, as well as an extra copy to share with friends.

Key Features

• Encourages readers to bring both grace and truth to every encounter
• Provides readers a new way to consider challenges in today’s world
• Sets forth a much needed vision for how Christians can speak truth and show mercy

Contents

Basics

• Demonstrating Christianly
• Prodigal Sons and Current Issues
• Earnest Grace vs. South Park
• New Neighbors
• The Daniel Standard
• Political Humility
• Dates that Will Live in Infamy
• Whose Applause?
• Provide vs. Promote
• Yes, Kristin, Many Careers Can Glorify God

Changes

• An Era of Insecurity
• A Pro-Choice Culture
• It’s a Big World
• Apologetics in a Land with Hundreds of Worldviews
• The Rolling Stone Era
• A Passover Lesson
• Who’s the Invader?
• Better Hour or Bewitching Hour?
• Titanic Futility
• Mascots and Manipulators
• Individual Responses>

Basics

• Amoral, Moralistic, and Biblical Reviewing
• The Dream Factory
• Marriage—Thanking God for a Great Gif
• Old Blacklisting and New
• Do Not Choose Colleges by Prestige Alone
• Beyond Knee-Jerk Giving
• Education and Welfare
• Rolling Back Welfare Reform
• Volunteering by Itself Is Morally Neutral
• Political Parties
• Campaign Spending
• An Election Day Homily

Causes

• Churches and Race
• Racial Reconciliation
• African-American Success
• Telling Kids Their Armpits Stink
• Bait and Switch on Homelessness
• Population
• Environmentalism
• Endangered Spiders, Endangered People
• Immigration
• Immigration 2
• Immigration 3

Conclusions

• The World’s Most Important Leaders
• Discerning Talent
• Parachute Packing
• Contentment
• Strength, Courage, Love
• Were Christ’s Words UnChristlike?
• Spotlighting Christ at Commencements
• Resting in God’s Grace
• Avoid Spam Recruitment
• Tax and Credit
• Patriotism Amid Shame
• New Year’s Resolutions
• Final Note

Praise for World View

Marvin Olasky has been one of the leading biblically minded journalists in America for years. He has shaped World magazine’s timely and trenchant critique of newsworthy events impacting the American stage of politics, culture and ethics. This selection of his classic articles gives insight, stirs action and prompts reflection as we as believers endeavor to engage our communities with a conscious and consistent Christian worldview.

—Peter A. Lillback, President of Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA

Interesting, insightful, provocative, remarkably well-informed, and relentlessly biblical in approach, Marvin Olasky’s columns are always worth reading, and this book is a rich treasure trove of them. His thoughtful Christian worldview fills this book with a wise analysis of dozens of current issues.

—Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary, Scottsdale, AZ

Christians are the intellectual outlaws under the current secular conditions. To believe the truth claims of Christianity is to defy principalities and powers—and to face an intellectual onslaught. In this context of increasing hostility to the Christian faith, Marvin Olasky’s careful and theologically-informed reflection on the culture is a needed resource for the church. Olasky’s new book, World View, is a thoughtful and rich resource for those who are seeking to walk faithfully during this challenging cultural moment.

—R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: World View
• Author: Marvin Olasky
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781945270833, 1945270837
• Resource ID: LLS:WORLDVIEW
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-26T20:15:49Z

About Marvin Olasky

Marvin N. Olasky (PhD, American Culture, University of Michigan) is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, vice president for academic affairs at The King's College in New York, editor-in-chief of World News Group, and a distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College. He has been interviewed numerous times by the national media as the developer of the concepts of compassionate conservatism and biblically objective journalism and is the author of twenty books. He and his wife, Susan, have four sons and five grandchildren.