Marvin Olasky is editor-in-chief of the national news magazine World, provost of The King's College, and a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Olasky has written 13 books of history and cultural analysis, including Compassionate Conservatism, The American Leadership Tradition, The Religions Next Door, and The Tragedy of American Compassion. Marvin Olasky has also co-authored seven more books (including the recent Monkey Business), written seven monographs, and served as general editor of the Turning Point Christian Worldview series. Marvin Olasky received an A.B. from Yale University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. He is an elder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin, vice-chairman of the board of City School, and a former chairman of the Austin Crisis Pregnancy Center. He has been a foster parent, a Little League assistant coach, and a PTA president. Marvin Olasky and his wife Susan have four sons: Pete, David, Daniel, and Benjamin. Susan is a senior writer for World and the author of the Annie Henry series of historical novels for children. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:56:00 GMT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:56:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A tale of two songs. Katie Stam, a 23-year-old member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Seymour, Ind., sang one of them on Jan. 24, 2009. Key lyrics: "Down the Via Dolorosa called the way of suffering/ Like a lamb came... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/12/08/serving_with_miss_america 05f95c52-c61f-4e8b-b672-9398fc0c8076 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:56:00 GMT Confirmation of biblical wisdom came earlier this fall from an unlikely source: an Ivy Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 and saw the Soviet Union falling apart. He first announced a vague reform plan that proposed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/11/26/academic_perestroika 52f4b89b-de99-4297-916b-8fc721eee581 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Confirmation of biblical wisdom came earlier this fall from an unlikely source: an Ivy League savant who says it's wrong to depend on the Bible. The prestigious Oxford University Press sent me the new book... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/11/11/morality_without_god df700797-256a-47ba-99a6-e23035cbb881 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:23 GMT Presidential nominations should not be Lifetime Achievement Awards. When Republicans forget that, they lose. Examples: Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008. Democrats make mistakes too, but typically they head toward... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/10/29/candidate_of_the_future c3cbe18e-aa39-4a2a-93a5-3b6164968c48 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:41:35 GMT My last column was about online education and the opportunity it affords to end leftist rule in academia. Now, let's look at the other citadel of secular liberalism, media, and see how the recent cracking of ACORN shows... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/10/14/opportunity_knocks_twice 15612bc0-f184-4142-9374-7a9db6fb5dff Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:25:15 GMT Some trends are so evident that even I can't miss them. Chapter 9 of a book I wrote in the 1980s, Prodigal Press, has the title, "Network News and Local Newspapers: The Coming Economic Judgment." It was easy to forecast... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/10/02/class_without_rooms_online_higher_education 16ea1894-cc4d-465c-8b8c-dbe94d9fcad5 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Journalists love the unusual: "Man bites dog" stories are big. So how should reporters have reacted to a Minneapolis surprise last month? Facts: A convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/09/16/remarkable_providence 8ada7d2b-111f-45a1-bee5-f32cf645abd3 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:01 GMT One subscriber recently criticized my criticism of evangelicals who anticipate imminent doom and head for the hills. He wrote that when Communists took over China 60 years ago, Christians who fled survived and those... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/09/03/dont_head_for_the_hills cf2b2a58-9c71-4cbd-ab6e-0bb3bf0a4100 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:27:54 GMT One of the favorite words of President Obama and his supporters is "justice," often combined with the adjective "social." We hear calls for government-imposed economic redistribution through taxes and various kinds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/08/19/is_social_justice_just_ice d5e3f0c8-5998-4101-8524-f13b4d1b8bd2 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT New Orleans was once a city of American innovation: first opera house (1796), first Jewish U.S. senator (1852), first theater dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures (1896), and, of course, first jazz. Then... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/08/07/innovation_again 8c1c65c0-e0f9-4029-8e18-39076f2fbe9f Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT At WORLD we criticize Barack Obama a lot but look for opportunities to compliment him. He is the president of all of us, and Romans 13 (plus other chapters of the Bible) adjure us: "The authorities that exist have been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/07/23/an_hour_sir,_please f654e690-f0e7-4f8f-9293-58b1d2753014 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Plato wrote, "Give me the songs of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws." Would a modern corollary, for many Christians, juxtapose songs, films, and even television miniseries against the teachings of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/07/08/riptide_beware_the_deadly_current 5efe0ba5-8fa7-4d29-abad-48b58ce6ae57 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:35:46 GMT For the non-Calvinists or anti-Calvinists among us who may worry that the current issue of WORLD has several articles about John Calvin, be not afraid: It happens only once every 500 years. July 10 brings the 500th... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/06/23/on_his_500th_birthday,_three_cheers_for_john_calvin fd0454ff-cda6-4337-9a1f-436aac331c3a Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT What kind of tea are they drinking in London these days? WORLD's June 20 cover story ("The sixth wind: Headlines trumpet Christian decline, but a closer look suggests another rise in serious faith") quotes three British... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/06/11/glory_observed aaf13d6f-bfcb-4df4-9589-eac17d7255aa Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT