WORLD Magazine - Culture | Vol. 36, No. 9 | WORLD
Logo
Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth | Donate
CULTURE
Vol. 36, No. 9
All laughs, no lectures

Nate Bargatze offers cathartic comedy for the pandemic-weary in his new show, The Greatest Average American

BLM’s cancel sandwich

Documentary Paint the Wall Black shows the high cost of resistance to a social justice movement

America, the (not always) beautiful

Nomadland reminds viewers that the freedom to choose the paths we walk may be more beautiful than the paths themselves

Battle of brutes

Box office smash Godzilla vs. Kong is one of the more entertaining films in the series

Ruining the joke

A new series starring comedy giants disappoints

Highs and lows

Noteworthy new or recent releases

A “Jesus Music” pioneer

Children of the Day helped launch a Christian music genre

A way with words

Four recent picture book biographies

Curious and captivating

Four nonfiction books

Signs of a setting sun

Despair over U.S. party politics and national disunity go all the way back to the Founders

More than a buzzword

Preventing abuse in the church starts with understanding the roles of power and deception