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Summary: All the Difference in the World
Comment: World Magazine started as a pretty flimsy weekly reader sort of magazine and has grown and improved to be in line with Time magazine, very professionally done. The difference is that World is from a Christian perspective- and that makes all the difference. Same things happening in the world but you get a much more hopeful and, I believe, honest account of the news.
My only complaint is that, due to postage prices, World had to go to a bi-weekly magazine making some of the news outdated by the time the magazine arrives.
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Summary: World vs. Newsweek
Comment: Having been a regular to subscriber to "Newsweek" my sister bought me a subsription of "World Magazine". Needless to say I no longer order Newsweek anymore. Being a moderate conservative (was planning on voting for Stpehen Colbert-Democrat, for president), I was very pleased with the clean, un-slanted, un-biased writings of World Magazine. Anytime I see Newsweek at a Doctor's office or anywhere else; I don't even consider picking it up becasue I know it is garbage that could be better used elsewhere. If you are tired of reading liberal-closed-minded articles (Newsweek only has 2 conservative writers and 21 liberal!) then World Magazine is definitly for you!
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Summary: Totally Republican, Somewhat Christian, Not Too Biblical
Comment: World Magazine is a sincere attempt to provide an evangelical Christian perspective on the major issues of the day. While I applaud those who conceived it, it is singularly lacking in its execution.
Unfortunately, its publisher and editors seem to equate the latest talking points issued by the Republican Party as equivalent to the explicit teaching of Holy Writ. They apparently fail to recognize the many ways in which both the administration of George W. Bush and the Republican Party leadership have fallen far short of Biblical standards in both personal morality and policy proposals.
They have cast their lot with the GOP, despite the fact that Republicans have failed time and time again to deliver on issues of concern to conservative, evangelical Christians. In doing so, they have insured that the Babylonian captivity of the Church of Jesus Christ to the GOP will continue, regardless of how Republican leaders live their personal lives, or the policies that they attempt to advance on the federal level.
World Magazine is better than Newsweek, Time, or U.S. News and World Report...But that is faint praise indeed.
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Summary: Not your father's newsweekly
Comment: As an insatiable news junky and practicing Christian reader whose work takes me to many countries each year, I recently caved to my wife's insistence and began to read the World subscription that a relative had given us.
Alongside the Economist, Fortune, Money, Christianity Today, First Things, and the the internet news, World has quickly become a staple of my reading disciplines.
This thin, edgy source of news and analysis intentionally views and argues the news from a biblically-informed world and life view. Any news - to say nothing of all data we process - comes to us through some default or chosen paradigm, so to make this observation is not to set World apart in nature from other magazines of its genre, just to be explicit about the lens its editors maneuver with a rather admirable sort of cunning and a voice that has coalesced and matured over the short years of the magazine's existence.
For those who are somewhat familiar with the species and strains of Christian faith, it may help to note that World's particular lens is common to 'Reformed' faith. Essential features of this kind of Christian commitment include the conviction that 'all truth is God's truth'. An outcome of this is a full engagement with culture in all or most of its printable manifestations.
So you'll get movie and literature reviews as well as news and analysis. One tribute to this weekly is the comment that you won't find pious prudishness, but rather a full frontal interaction with what Christians and others are reading, watching, thinking, and talking about.
For this reason, the editorial line tacks with the kind of 'cultural conservatism' often dismissed by wonks and talking heads, without the Southern-Fried Christianity that is too often considered to be its only generative motive.
Peek inside the credentials of its writers and opinion-makers and you'll find Ivy League credentials, minus the kow-towing.
Don't make it your only news source. But do read World.
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Summary: Excellent, but "real" news?
Comment: I have enjoyed receiving World magazine the past few years. It has interesting stories and excellent editorials. However, I have stopped reading as of late, since I get much better news coverage from my daily newspapers. World magazine is not so much a weekly news publication as it is a "cultural news" publication, such as a recent cover story on Pat Robertson, movie, book, and music reviews, usually a story about some person or group that is doing good things, and some small snippets of news. While I wouldn't subscribe to US News and World Report, Newsweek, or Time, I also wouldn't put this magazine in the same category. It is world happenings and culture stuff from a Christian worldview, but don't expect to be updated each week on the latest and greatest news by something other than a small paragraph. Otherwise, it makes for nice bedtime reading.
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