Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olaskyis editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion, and is a distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College. He has been married since 1976 to writer Susan Olasky, and they have four sons and one granddaughter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth12 June 1950
CountryUnited States of America
jobs feminist athletic
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
land serious holy
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
mean compassion too-much
We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.
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[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.
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Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.
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Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.
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Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.
easter believe grace
Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.
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I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
children mean epidemics
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
wimps causes speak
And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.
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Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.
beautiful years pro-life
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
christian atheist years
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.