Boldly forward

An invitation to shape the future of journalism | Joel Belz

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

If WORLD were not a magazine but a typical Christian or public radio station, you'd be used to at least twice-per-year, multiple-day-long program interruptions for fund drives.

If I do say so, it's one of the advantages of a magazine that you have the option—right this very second—of turning this page, getting all the benefits of the rest of this issue, and not having to spend a single second reading my commercial.

But you didn't turn the page, did you? And for that courtesy, I am enormously grateful. Here at WORLD, we have typically chosen to interrupt you for our fundraiser very briefly, and only once a year.

This year, we're upping the ante a bit. On this page, I want to update you about three distinct aspects of God's World Publications, the parent company of WORLD magazine. In Passion meets opportunity, WORLD's publisher Nick Eicher will step you through what we both see as an imperative: As the news industry in general retreats from the task of factual newsgathering, we at WORLD believe it's time to pour more resources into biblical worldview journalism.