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.
In public life there's a reason good recruits are hard to find
Time to admit Christian education has its problems, too
Remember all the jokes about big families?
The seeds of our undoing aren't primarily "out there"
What other institution can fail one-third of the time and survive?
A theology-based policy for immigration
Could one man's testimony be the seed of something great in Afghanistan?
As conservatives battle each other, Christians should make the Bible their guide
Public education is crumbling because its mortar is disappearing
