Lead Stories

In-depth, online-only feature-length articles written by WORLD's team of editors, reporters, and contributors.

Jimmy Hodges helps Chad Heltcel and his wife Cassidi salvage the wreckage of their family home.

Storm troopers

by Jamie Dean

Disaster relief | Local churches and other Christian organizations help lead efforts to respond to Oklahoma’s deadly twisters

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/storm_troopers]

Rep. Trent Franks

Abortion wars

by J.C. Derrick

Abortion |  Two House bills highlight the deep divide in Washington over protecting unborn children

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/abortion_wars]

Joshua Kusterer, 12, Nach Mitschke, 6, and Wyatt Mitschke, 4, salute as they recite the pledge of allegiance during the “Save Our Scouts” prayer vigil and rally in Dallas.

Countdown to the Boy Scouts vote

by Warren Cole Smith

Boy Scouts |  The group’s National Council will decide Thursday whether to allow openly gay boys to participate in the organization

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/countdown_to_the_boy_scouts_vote]

Becky Blumenthal, from Philadelphia, holds up her Phish album after being one of the first people in the store on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, in 2012.

Vinyl makes a comeback

by Thomas Hardesty

Music |  Younger listeners, enchanted by the warm and open sounds records offer, are setting aside their iPods and dusting off their parent’s old turntables

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/vinyl_makes_a_comeback]

A vintage engraving of Adam in the Garden of Eden

A biblical and scientific Adam

by Vern S. Poythress

Science |  A challenge to evangelicals who have backed away from an historic Adam, using a theologically informed look at ape ancestry genetic claims

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/a_biblical_and_scientific_adam]

Steven Miller testifies on Capitol Hill Friday, as J. Russell George looks on.

‘Horrible customer service’

by Edward Lee Pitts

Government |  Lawmakers grill outgoing IRS chief as he tries to deny any political partisanship in the agency’s actions against conservative groups

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/horrible_customer_service]

Rep. Michele Bachmann speaks at a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill Thursday, as Sen. Ted Cruz (left) looks on.

Tea Party revival

by Edward Lee Pitts

Politics |  The IRS scandal puts the spotlight back on a political movement many had written off

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/tea_party_revival]

David Weiss

Finding a real God in a chasm of unreality

by Caroline Leal

Health |  In a world distorted and shattered by schizophrenia, one man clings to mercy and grace

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/finding_a_real_god_in_a_chasm_of_unreality]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Relaxing restrictions

by Emily Belz

Abortion |  Despite the horrors revealed during the Gosnell trial, Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks to expand access to late-term abortions in New York

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/relaxing_restrictions]

Stacey Otts, a senior at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., studies in one of the school's chemistry labs.

‘Brain drain’ sucks Indiana dry

by Thomas Hardesty

Economy |  While Indianapolis suburbs make the list of best places to live, the state has a hard time convincing college graduates to stay

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/brain_drain_sucks_indiana_dry]

Kermit Gosnell leaves the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Monday after being convicted of first-degree murder.

Weighing a verdict

by Daniel James Devine

Abortion |  Pro-life leaders say Kermit Gosnell’s guilty verdict should energize America’s abortion conversation

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/weighing_a_verdict]

Kermit Gosnell is escorted from the courthouse following Monday's verdict.

Gosnell guilty of first-degree murder

by Leigh Jones

Gosnell Trial |  The jury must now decide whether he deserves the death penalty for taking the lives of infants born at his abortion facility

[http://www.worldmag.com/2013/05/gosnell_guilty_of_first_degree_murder]

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