WORLDmag.com's Top 20 for 2009
News of the Year | Thanks to readers like you, 2009 was a big year for WORLDmag.com. Here's a ranking of the 20 articles read the most by visitors to the site during the past year.
1. Family man
All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of a crack addict to potential NFL Rookie of the Year on the love and dedication of an adoptive family that wouldn't let him fail | by Amy Henry | Nov. 21, 2009
Behind the scandal-tainted C Street house is an organization big on protecting its own and small on church ties and theology | Emily Belz and Edward Lee Pitts | Aug. 29, 2009
It's based on the best-selling book of all time, but WORLD's 2009 winner takes Bible study to new levels | by Marvin Olasky | July 4, 2009
Many reviewers can't see something to cheer about in the uplifting story of football star Michael Oher | by Megan Basham Nov. 21, 2009
A secretive Capitol Hill Bible study finds two of its high-profile members embroiled in scandal | by Emily Belz, Edward Lee Pitts | June 26, 2009
While the Bible shows that God can heal people supernaturally, claims of particular faith-healers should be examined. Here's what WORLD learned about the "Lakeland Outpouring" healings of television preacher Todd Bentley | by Warren Cole Smith | May 23, 2009
Bertrand Russell's 'firm foundation of unyielding despair' was tragically odd | by John Piper | Oct. 24, 2009
Stephen C. Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, fights to show that all lives have eternal value because they are the work of a Creator and not the product of chance | by Marvin Olasky | Dec. 19, 2009
The House healthcare bill is only 1,017 pages long. What are you waiting for? | by the Editors | Aug. 15, 2009
With last week's court ruling in Iowa, the battle for preserving traditional marriage is on its way to being lost | by Cal Thomas | April 7, 2009
Rob Koons, a University of Texas at Austin philosophy professor and a Christian, poured six years into development of a UT Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions. Then administrators yanked it away from him | by Marvin Olasky | Sept. 12, 2009
12. The sixth wind?
Headlines trumpet Christian decline, but a closer look suggests another rise in serious faith | by Marvin Olasky | June 20, 2009
Words can be twisted, but God uses them to tell straight truths | by Janie B. Cheaney | Dec. 19, 2009
A divorce-related lawsuit alleges former lawmaker Chip Pickering carried on an affair while living at the Fellowship's C Street house | by Jamie Dean | Aug. 29, 2009
15. Guts and grace
WORLD's Lynn Vincent teams up with Sarah Palin on a book that promises to set the record straight about the Alaska governor's personal and political life | by Mickey McLean | May 21, 2009
Understanding abortion in the past will help us fight it today | by Marvin Olasky | Jan. 17, 2009
As the president prays privately, National Day of Prayer organizers are forced to move Thursday's public event away from the White House | by Edward Lee Pitts | May 6, 2009
The president offers a Christmas lesson that perfectly fits his social goals | by Cal Thomas | Dec. 24, 2009
There are several steps Sarah Palin must make if she is to have a future in national politics | by Cal Thomas | July 7, 2009
20. No good choices
With enemy spies in custody, Capt. Roger Hill faced an impossible situation; the choice he made is costing him his career | by Lynn Vincent | Jan. 31, 2009
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