Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the June 4, 2010, edition of WORLD Magazine. Since this article appeared, Major League Baseball has implemented instant replay, in part because of this event. A 2019 documentary on this event, called “A Perfect Game,” is now available from Fox Sports. …

TUCUMCARI, N.M. — After leaving Oklahoma City, we drove nearly 400 miles west on U.S. 66 to Tucumcari, N.M. Our plan was to turn north there and drive on back roads — what William Least Heat Moon called America’s “blue highways” — into Colorado, our ultimate destination. Tucumcari is the…

Lonnie Frisbee is a name mostly lost to history, but he could be one of the most influential persons in the modern evangelical movement. There’s no doubt that he is the man who put the “freak” in “Jesus Freak.” …

The name Lance Sijan is virtually unknown to most Americans. But if you are a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy, memorizing Sijan’s biography is a required activity, and for good reason. Every American should know his story. Lance Sijan was born as Lazar Sijan, the son of…

NOTE: I wrote this article in October 2017 for “BreakPoint,” the website for the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. It is reprinted here on the anniversary of Alvin York’s birth: December 13, 1887 I am in Nashville, Tennessee, this week doing interviews for the “BreakPoint” and “Listening In” podcasts. As…

NOTE: This article originally appeared at BreakPoint, the website of The Colson Center for Christian Worldview. The death of John Glenn this week marked the passing of a generation. He had a distinguished military career, serving in World War II and Korea, where he flew the iconic F-86 fighter jet…

The case for third-party and write-in votes. Pharisees and partisans were always trying to trap Jesus into binary choices. The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Should we pay our taxes? Yes or no?” (Matt. 22:15 ff). Jesus’ disciples brought a blind man to him and asked, “Who sinned, this man or his…

Pundits, partisans, and others have written much during this election season — and, increasingly, between election seasons — about polls and polling. Most of what has been written lately has been critical of polls and polling. Some have go so far to suggest that the polling industry is doomed. This…

Travel is not all it’s cracked up to be — “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.” …