My New Column at World Magazine
In the first of a bi-weekly contribution, I explore the endurance of a near-fifty year movement
So here is some news. I’ll be writing a biweekly column for World magazine. I’m really excited about this opportunity. I’ve been a World reader most of my life and I consider Marvin Olasky, one of the founders of World, a hero and a friend.
Here is my first contribution, a reflection on the pro-life movement:
When Justice Harry Blackmun, joined by six of his colleagues on the Supreme Court, invented a right to abortion in January of 1973, few observers predicted that this decision would launch one of America’s most durable socio-political movements.
However, nearly half a century later, the pro-life movement, led mostly by women, is an enduring cultural force. They’ve shown up in the rain, the snow, the sleet. They’ve shown up in neighborhoods where women are in crisis. They’ve shown up in the halls of Congress and state legislatures. They’ve shown up in churches and youth groups. Mocked and maligned by the mainstream press, mistreated by the denizens of popular culture, made the object of late-night comics, pro-lifers have refused to go away.
You can read the entire thing here. If you are not a World subscriber, can I encourage you to subscribe? They have fantastic reporting and coverage, a wide array of opinions from leading evangelical leaders, and insightful content on cultural movements.
What I’m Reading
Here is an update on the books I’m reading:
Lead Like it Matters to God by Richard Stearns. Rich is a friend and former CEO of World Vision. He wrote the foreword to The Dignity Revolution. This book is not your typical leadership books. In many ways it reads like a book on calling and missions. Really good stuff.
No Higher Honor by Condoleeza Rice. I have a habit of not reading books and memoirs in the current moment, so I refuse to read any of the hundreds of books about the Trump era. It’s too soon and things are too hot. This memoir by Rice of her time in Washington, serving as both National Security Advisor and Secretary of State is ten years old and yet timely and insightful.
Love Me Anyway by Jared C. Wilson. This is Wilson at his best, exploring what it means to truly love and be loved, to know and be known by God. I’m finding it both convicting and sobering and encouraging.
Congratulations ❤️🙏