Kevin Martin Journalist Profile

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News Magazines for Christians | Vol. 40, No. 5

1 week ago | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher

CULTURE TRENDING Lessons from the past TRENDING | Popular podcasts are hooking young listeners on history Books What would Jane do? BOOKS | Two books examine Austen’s world and its impact on ours Telling ourselves stories BOOKS | Tracing Joan Didion’s influences Discerning truth from lies: eight books BOOKS | Historical theology, apologetics, military history, and more Touring the City of God BOOKS | A new introduction to a classic text Into the unknown BOOKS | The case for things unseen...
News Magazines for Christians

1 month ago | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher

CULTURE TRENDING Commercial dreams TRENDING | Music artists ditch chart-topping albums in favor of landing a TV deal Books Reexamining an era BOOKS | Disentangling the various meanings of the Renaissance Why we write BOOKS | Conversations with Christian poets Married into ministry BOOKS | Is the role of pastor’s wife a Christian calling? Sin which clings so closely BOOKS | The rise and fall of a megachurch pastor Christian life and literature: eight books BOOKS | Monastic history, C.S. Lewis,...
News Magazines for Christians | Vol. 40, No. 3

2 months ago | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher

CULTURE TRENDING A dose of reality TRENDING | Tech companies—and consumers—are souring on virtual interaction Books Modern Mere Christianity BOOKS | Ross Douthat challenges reasons for unbelief Law schools ablaze BOOKS | An insider’s appraisal of American legal education Life, literature, and lessons: eight books BOOKS | Literary criticism, literary fiction, natural law, and more Natural law for evangelicals BOOKS | How the rest of Christendom can chime in on conversations about liberal...
Planning for WORLD’s future

Jan 16, 2025 | wng.org | Kevin Martin

Each Wednesday, we gather virtually as a staff to reflect on God’s Word, encourage one another, and lift up needs in prayer. Recently, our focus has been on God’s generosity and our call as His children to reflect it. Time and again, your support has shown us what godly generosity looks like in action. You’ve given us reason after reason to give thanks. Calendar 2024 was a year that tested us—yet your extraordinary generosity carried us through.
Fennesz: Mosaic

Dec 3, 2024 | sun-13.com | Simon Kirk |Kevin Martin |Midas Sound

Whilst weak Christian Fennesz albums simply don’t exist, the Austrian experimentalist’s 2019 release, Agora flickered with the same magic as touchstone releases, Endless Summer and Venice. Closing cut alone, We Trigger the Sun, one of best compositions within the Fennesz oeuvre. Agora was an album that saw Fennesz go beyond the realm in exploring the origins of ’70s glam, throwing it through the sonic mincer as only he knows how.
You’re part of our story

Nov 14, 2024 | wng.org | Kevin Martin

In past years, WORLD included a year-end appeal, often from Joel Belz himself. Now that we’re monthly, I won’t spend the entirety of this column on fundraising. We do have needs this year, and I’ll get to that, but first, let me catch you up on a few things. First, you may be wondering how we’re faring after flood waters roared through our offices. Writing this just before Thanksgiving, I can summarize by saying we have much to be thankful for this year.
News Magazines for Christians | Vol. 39, No. 16

Oct 17, 2024 | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Hunter Baker

CULTURE TRENDING A second act TRENDING | Popular retelling of the Gospel stories won’t end with the Resurrection Books Disenchantment and truth BOOKS | Rod Dreher highlights the failures of our secular age Uncovering truth and error: eight books BOOKS | Fiction, criminology, religious history, and more Beauty and brokenness BOOKS | How artists use great suffering to create A justice’s life BOOKS | Conservative upbringing, liberal policies Golden songs and promises BOOKS | Reflective moments...
WORLD after the flood

Oct 17, 2024 | wng.org | Kevin Martin

As a rule, it’s best that you depend on our reporters and editors for accurate, timely news and this space for updates about WORLD. But today the two converge with this update on the effect of Hurricane Helene on our headquarters and Asheville staff.
News Magazines for Christians | Vol. 39, No. 15

Sep 12, 2024 | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher

CULTURE Books The mysteries of mind BOOKS | New book dismantles the materialist account of reality Forgotten freedom fighters BOOKS | The South’s overlooked role in the Revolutionary War Perils of pregnancy BOOKS | Three books offer sobering perspectives on how the culture views childbirth Mystery and meaning: eight books BOOKS | Psychology, children's fiction, economic history, and more Of myths and riddles BOOKS | Into the worlds of Lewis, Tolkien, and Bletchley Park No moment unmediated...
Trusting amid adversity

Sep 12, 2024 | wng.org | Kevin Martin

Next year we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. What history marks as the beginning of the end, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, would come a year earlier, 1944, and 80th anniversary events of that fateful day drew huge crowds this summer before and after the Paris Olympics. If it’s right that in war, the first casualty is truth, it may be because you find so much evidence in wartime journalism.