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Marvin Olasky

Mike Khan, social justice warrior: New direction after a brush with death
07/03/2018 - 9:18am
Marvin Olasky
SHORT STORY: June 25, 2018 Twelfth in a series of short short fiction. For other stories in this series, visit wng.org/shortstories. Mike Khan had indeed had a vision on the road to Damascus, as he wrote to Rachel Auerglas (see story No. 10, “Khan unchained,” in WORLD’s Dec. 30, 2017 issue). He was driving a rebel truck, chasing retreating ISIS fighters near Raqqa, and hit a...
Could have been worse: Growing up poor and plenty
Marvin Olasky 03/23/2018 - 10:42am
SHORT STORY: March 19, 2018 Esperanz a grew up poor, without a dad but with a chessboard. All the other chess nerds in high school wanted to sleep with her. She told them that anyone who checkmated her king could also checkmate her. She knew no one ever would. Esperanza won a scholarship to the University of Texas and moved into a freshman dorm...
Take Henny Youngman, please: Remembering the king of one-liners
Marvin Olasky 02/20/2018 - 4:32pm
HENNY YOUNGMAN: February 20, 2018 This is a combination Valentine’s Day, anniversary-date and topically edgy column. It commemorates a comedian, Henny Youngman, “king of the one-liners,” who died 20 Februaries ago at age 91. His marriage with his wife, Sadie Cohen, lasted 59 years, and from the accounts I’ve read was happy...
The theology behind both Democratic and Republican lawmaking
Marvin Olasky 02/07/2018 - 10:24am
POLITICAL PELAGIANISM: February 5, 2018 Pelagius (A.D. 360-418) denied Biblical teaching about original sin. He thought people could do good without being born again. Allies and opponents described him as highly educated, fluent in Latin and Greek, and portly. (The theologian Jerome, an ascetic, described Pelagius as “stuffed with Irish...
‘A Brighter Shade of Pale:’ From Procol Harum to pro-life
Marvin Olasky 01/22/2018 - 4:45pm
HOMAGE TO LIFE: January 22, 2018 Kids, put your hands over your ears! Mash-up Marvin is back. Five years ago I had fun with the words of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (“Take every song captive,” Dec. 29, 2012). Some loved my Biblically optimistic version. Others thought it a desecration of the best-known song by my...
Tumultuous times: 2017 tears, cheers, fears — and a peer into 2018
Marvin Olasky 12/11/2017 - 4:23pm
2017: December 11, 2017 Airport shooting. Trump inauguration. Travel ban. Pipeline protest. Midwest tornadoes. Neil Gorsuch. School shooting. Comey firing. Obamacare survival. Solar eclipse. Charlottesville killing. Antifa violence. National anthem protests. Concert shooting. Wildfires. Church shooting. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Books,...
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