The next 20 years

New technology makes an “impossible publishing formula” even more challenging | Joel Belz

So if, as WORLD's founder 20 years ago and the one who has watched its survival and growth through the twists and turns of all the 855 separate issues we've produced—if I don't have the credentials now to predict what WORLD's next 20 years will be like, who does?

The answer is stark: Neither I, nor anyone I know.

From its outset, WORLD was an iffy proposition. One of the smartest people I know in the field of Christian magazines shared three terse words with me when I showed him our early financial report and business plan: "Impossible Publishing Formula." We came home from that visit, hung that placard on our wall, and determined to prove it wrong. But the fact is that my friend was right. Our presumption was large in those early days—but God's grace was even bigger.

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March 18, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 11

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