November 1, 2011 Police charge nine with trespass or obstruction in moving out dozens encamped there since Oct. 17
Police cleared out a downtown plaza early Monday that had been home to Occupy Wall Street protesters, ordering out dozens of people who had encamped there since Oct. 17 and charging nine with trespassing or obstructing justice.
October 31, 2011 Japanese-Americans who made critical contributions in W.W. II to receive Congressional Gold Medal on Nov. 2
They were sworn to secrecy for decades. Few people knew they existed. And yet they were responsible for defending the U.S. against formidable enemies and for saving lives, even while they themselves were labeled "enemy aliens."
October 28, 2011 The Virginia National Guard bestows the state's highest award on WWI Chaplain Thomas Bulla for sacrificial courage in the trenches of France
The Virginia National Guard honored Chaplain Thomas McNeill Bulla, known as the "Fighting Parson," with the state's highest award, the Virginia Distinguished Service Medal, earlier this month. Chaplain Bulla died October 17, 1918, from wounds he received two days earlier while administering medical aid to injured soldiers in the trenches in France during the First World War.
October 28, 2011 Autistic boy missing, airmen excavated, happy hogs, deadly deer, and an objectionable haunted house
Autistic Boy Missing
October 27, 2011 Occupy D.C. protesters have expressed plenty of concerns but they don't have any coherent answers
On McPherson Square, a cluster of tents spreads like a jarring note against a backdrop of stately government buildings and monuments. Signs are scattered across chairs and tent sides, blaring anti-war, anti-gun, anti-corporation headlines. "We are the 99 percent," some read.
October 26, 2011 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) releases a memoir about his fight for international human and religious rights
Rep. Frank Wolf, Congressman for the 10th district of Virginia, wants to "wake the Church up."
October 18, 2011 Poverty Cure uses Judeo-Christian principles and free-market economics to fight poverty
Christian aid organization Poverty Cure (www.povertycure.org) launched this month as an effort to use the biblical understanding of humanity and society to encourage an entrepreneurial solution to poverty.
October 14, 2011 Occupy Virginia Tech, guns and weed, Broadmont buglaries and big-time bigamist
Occupy Virginia Tech
October 13, 2011 Christian artist Jack Cribbs of Winchester, Va., on truth, faith, and art
In Morgan's Rifleman, Winchester artist Jack Cribbs catches a young soldier contemplating his next battle. Every aspect of the work is historically truthful: the man is clean shaven and resolute. Cribbs uses light to capture emotion. The lines of light that run throughout the painting, the soldier's face in profile, and the slanted musket--it all communicates unwavering assurance and confidence. Through a careful study of the time period and painstaking technical accuracy, Cribbs hopes to be able to transport his viewers back to the Revolutionary War in a way that most history books never could.
October 13, 2011 Leesburg man accused of spying on Syrian dissidents living in U.S.
The United States has accused Syrian President Bashar Assad's government of using an American citizen to spy on anti-Syrian protesters in the U.S., an accusation that further strains relations between Washington and Damascus, which has unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissidents that has killed thousands.
October 13, 2011 A new Barna study finds young adults leave church because leaders aren't answering their deepest questions about God, life and today's culture
This article first appeared Oct. 10 in World on Campus.
October 13, 2011 Writer's Block is Advent Associates' first project in a program designed to launch Christian college students into film-making careers
The office looks like it came straight out of the 1940s. A large desk holds scattered papers and a typewriter, behind the desk is a large leather chair, and period photographs adorn the office walls. Men in suspenders and shiny black shoes sport side-parted hair slicked back neatly under fedoras.
October 12, 2011 Liberty University asks 4th Circuit appeals court to review health care lawsuit dismissal
Liberty University appealed the dismissal of its lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's health care law to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
October 7, 2011 Guitar hero, polluters punished, and Richmond readies for filming Spielberg's Lincoln
Guitar hero
October 6, 2011 The author of One Thousand Gifts discusses writing and life on her farm in western Ontario in an interview with WORLD Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky
"Honestly I didn't think anyone would ever read One Thousand Gifts at all," Ann Voskamp says of her surprise hit, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan). "It's quirky and idiosyncratic, and the language--it's not an easy read."
October 3, 2011 WORLD Virginia has a new a new look, a new address, and some new features
Dear Readers,
September 30, 2011 Colson's Do the Right Thing ethics conference comes to Ashburn
"I believe there is no such thing as absolute truth."
September 30, 2011 National Religious Broadcasters charge Apple, Google, and Facebook with anti-Christian discrimination
Apple, Comcast, Google, and Facebook are among seven major internet media firms that discriminate against Christians or have policies that make discrimination inevitable, according to a recent report from National Religious Broadcasters.
September 30, 2011 Sewage released, ACLU sues again, robber escapes, and beauty products nabbed
Sewage flows
September 21, 2011 Three years after his death, lawyers try to clear a civil rights icon of an incest conviction
In the 1960s James Bevel was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s top advisers and an icon of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, three years after his death, Bevel's attorney is trying to clear the reverend of a conviction for incest.
