Podcast Archives
WORLD's Joel Belz Podcast Episodes
Hear articles, columns, book excerpts, and other commentary from WORLD Magazine founder and author Joel Belz.
Educators vs. indoctrinators
Jun. 27, 2011 |
The difference between the two is more image than reality
In an article from 1996, Joel Belz encourages Christian educators to boldly embrace the role of indoctrinator and explains that while there are profound distinctions between education and indoctrination, there's a deft overlap.
Paper, please, not plastic
Jun. 21, 2011 |
A mix of selfishness and love threatens our health
In an article from 1996, Joel Belz considers medical care treatment for a possibly torn tendon and reflects on the larger American healthcare system.
June memories
Jun. 13, 2011 |
Twenty-five years ago this summer, WORLD learned a difficult lesson
Thirteen weeks after WORLD Magazine first launched in March 1986, the magazine was briefly shut down, testing the resolve founder Joel Belz. Belz says WORLD will be spending its 25th anniversary "expectantly—but modestly."
Pain of pruning
Jun. 7, 2011 |
But don't jump to unwarranted conclusions
In an article from 1998, Joel Belz asks, "Does God's pruning represent punishment for specific matters we've given too little attention to, or is the pruning just his routine annual trimming to keep things ship-shape?"
Crying ‘Wolf!’
May. 30, 2011 |
The high cost of scaring the public with cynical warnings
WORLD founder Joel Belz says, "Scare people often enough with threats that simply don't come true, and those same people will quit believing any and all warnings still to be sounded."
A bull's-eye God
May. 23, 2011 |
He insists on being at the center of our existence
In an article written in the wake of the Columbine shooting, Joel Belz says that to stop this 'culture of death', Americans must stop pushing God to the margins and instead put Him in the bull's-eye center of their existence.
Bumping into reality
May. 17, 2011 |
How did so many Chinese get so old so fast?
Joel states that China's infamous 'one-child' policy may be on the rocks as men outnumber woman, and the number elderly people are outnumbering the able-bodied workers.
Quit dreaming
May. 9, 2011 |
A few practical suggestions for would-be writers
In an article from June 2000, Joel Belz says that when young people interested in careers in writing ask him how to get started, he replies, "At the bottom."
In the clouds
May. 2, 2011 |
A pre-dawn plane ride shows the limits of federal government
Joel Belz shares his experience with a FAA mixup that illustrates how the federal government goofed up yet again.
No heroes on 16th Street
Apr. 25, 2011 |
On 16th Street, nobody has won these people's trust
Joel Belz reflects on his visit ten years ago to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama hours after a federal jury convicted Thomas E. Blanton Jr. of murder in the 1963 church bombing killing four young girls.
No pious baloney
WORLD 5 YEARS AGO
