Joel Belz (1941–2024) was WORLD’s founder and a regular contributor of commentary for WORLD Magazine and WORLD Radio. He served as editor, publisher, and CEO for more than three decades at WORLD and was the author of Consider These Things. Visit WORLD’s memorial tribute page.
The mortar that holds public education together was stripped away
We should know more about our taxes
The Great Deceiver doesn’t want honest debates
It's important to remember that Christians are people of the Word
The freedom to be wrong doesn’t make what is wrong right
Sometimes an effort to do good gets stalled by concerns over what it may lead to
Thousands of church doors are being locked from the inside
Reading the news of the day without turning to despair
Two very different ways to look at the Christmas season