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Unmerited mercy

Marvin Olasky's multi-part biographical series chronicling his progression from card-carrying Communist to Bible-carrying Christian, his years in academia, his involvement in welfare reform, and his present position as WORLD's editor in chief.

The first 10 episodes are available in a book, Unmerited Mercy: A Memoir, 1968-1996. Visit the WORLDmag.com store to order your copy.

Episode 1: The graduate

Aug. 9, 2008 | In 1968 I headed down a path that began with low-rent existentialism and took me all the way to Communism.

Episode 2: After 1968

Oct. 18, 2008 | The elites showered applause on a young radical in 1970, but the kudos prompted only resentment.

Episode 3: Deeper into sin

Jan. 31, 2009 | A misguided search for meaning led a young radical to the Communist Party in 1972.

Episode 4: Crying out

Apr. 11, 2009 | Is seeing believing? Or does believing lead to seeing?

Episode 5: God doesn't give up

May 23, 2009 | Exodus 13: "When in time to come your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' you shall say to him, 'By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.'"

Episode 6: Madness centered on God

July 18, 2009 | Fighting communism, and my own impetuousness.

Episode 7: Inside Oz

Aug. 29, 2009 | Learning about the politics of big business, and what "an honest day's work" might come to mean.

Episode 8: A new front in the war

Nov. 7, 2009 | Moving from the politics of corporate America to the politics of academic America, and trying to publish so as not to perish.

Episode 9: Thy will be done

Dec. 19, 2009 | With opportunity in academia and media came great challenges and great satisfaction.

Episode 10: Whose darling?

Feb. 13, 2010 | Finding my way home after weird times in Washington.

Episode 11: More unmerited mercy

Feb. 11, 2012 | Battling against ideologies that mistranslate the Bible, kill neighborhoods, and hurt students. Not so often battling against my own pride.

Episode 12: Saved by God's Gollums

March 24, 2012 | Reporters on an ideological warpath mercifully cut short my yearning for the Inner Ring.

Episode 13: D.C. city limits

June 2, 2012 | The death and life of compassionate conservatism: While a treasured idea became a mess in Washington, it flourished at a small school in Austin.