Marvin Olasky

Marvin Olasky (born June 12, 1950) is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin and vice president for academic affairs at The King's College, a small Christian college in New York City. He is also editor-in-chief of World magazine and a leading conservative columnist (Creators syndicate). Download high resolution version (1194x1770, 1932 KB) This image was emailed to me by Marvin Olasky for the purpose of including on his article page, knowing that the image can be reused at will. ... Download high resolution version (1194x1770, 1932 KB) This image was emailed to me by Marvin Olasky for the purpose of including on his article page, knowing that the image can be reused at will. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... University of Texas redirects here. ... The Kings College is a small Christian institution of higher education, founded by Percy Crawford in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester, in 1938. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... World Magazines 2004 Review Issue WORLD Magazine is the fourth largest weekly news magazine in the United States. ...

Youth and education

Born in Boston, Massachusetts into a Russian Jewish family, Olasky became an atheist at 14, shortly after becoming a Bar Mitzvah. In college, he discovered Communism and became a Communist in the early 1970s, after graduating from Yale University in 1971 with a B.A. degree in American Studies. In 1976, however, Olasky became a born-again Christian; he came to belief after reading the New Testament in Russian, studying Puritan sermons, and reading Walker Percy, Whittaker Chambers, and C.S. Lewis. Also in 1976, Olasky graduated with a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Celebration of Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yale redirects here. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ... This article is about the Christian scriptures. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ...

Career and works

Olasky began working as a speechwriter and public affairs coordinator for DuPont in 1978, and in 1983 began teaching journalism at the University of Texas, becoming a full professor in 1993. His initial writings gave him to opportunity to win funding from the Bradley Foundation in 1989, allowing Olasky to begin his most famous work, The Tragedy of American Compassion, which was first published in 1992. Largely ignored at first, this book in 1994 and 1995 gained the endorsement of William Bennett and Newt Gingrich, who gave a copy to every incoming Republican freshman representative in the 1994 Congress. Critics blasted the book for its criticism of government programs and said the book was short on research; supporters said it was well-researched and used it in the 1995-1996 welfare reform debate. Dupont, DuPont, Du Pont, or du Pont may refer to: // E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the worlds third largest chemical company Du Pont Motors Gilbert Dupont, a French stock brokerage part of retail banking network Crédit du Nord ST Dupont, a French manufacturer of fine... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... For other persons named William Bennett, see William Bennett (disambiguation). ... Newton Leroy Gingrich, (born June 17, 1943), served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... // Elections for the 104th United States Congress were held on November 8, 1994. ...

The gist of the book is Olasky's review of poverty-fighting in America from colonial times to the 1990s. He argues that private individuals and organizations, particularly the Christian church, have a responsibility to care for the poor, and contends that challenging, personal, and spiritual help, common until the 1930s, was more effective than the government welfare programs of recent decades. He states that government programs are ineffective because they are disconnected from the poor, while private charity has the power to change lives because it allows for a personal connection between the giver and the recipient. The book, with its sequels, became a key work defining "compassionate conservatism" as it relates to welfare and social policy. For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Definition Compassionate conservatism is a political philosophy that was invented by Marvin Olasky, who went on to memorialize it in his 2000 book Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America, and Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute. ... ...

In 1995, Olasky became an occasional advisor to then Texas gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush, who put some of Olasky's policy suggestions into action during his term as governor by encouraging the use of religious charities to solve social problems. Christian ministries were called in by the state government to help in a variety of ways, most notably with the rehabilitation of drug and alcohol abusers and the counseling of prisoners. Their disputable success^{[citation needed]} led Bush to make faith-based programs a major component of his 2000 presidential campaign, and in 2001, Olasky saw the national implementation of his ideas when President Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. During Bush's campaign, Olasky attained brief mass-media notoriety when he was understood by many to have claimed that the 2000 John McCain candidacy was equivalent to a pagan religion of Zeus. Olasky was actually playing off Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, where a main character converts to the "religion of Zeus." Olasky was observing that McCain emphasized in campaigning the classical virtues, such as courage, while "compassionate conservative" Bush emphasized biblical virtues such as mercy.^[1] Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... In politics, Governor of Texas is the title given to the chief executive of the state of Texas. ... Various Religious symbols, including (first row) Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, (second row) Islamic, tribal, Taoist, Shinto (third row) Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Jain, (fourth row) Ayyavazhi, Triple Goddess, Maltese cross, pre-Christian Slavonic Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual... // Legal definitions A charity is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ... This article is about the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, now the incumbent President of the United States, winner of the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 election. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) is a department under the Office of the President of the United States that was established by President George W. Bush through Executive Order on January 29, 2001, and which represents one of the key domestic policies of Bush... For McCains grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. ... For other uses, see Zeus (disambiguation). ...

World magazine

In 1992, Olasky became an editor of World magazine, the fifth most read news weekly in the United States; he writes a weekly column for it and posts items on the magazine's blog. His writing appeared regularly in the Austin American Statesman from 1996-2003, and occasionally in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily. He is also a senior fellow at the Acton Institute and a prolific author on the topics of conservative social policy, American culture, and Christian journalism. In 1998, he was instrumental in the creation of the World Journalism Institute, an organization originally with the goal of training Christian journalists for positions at World and in the mainstream media. WJI subsequently came under fire because of World magazine's reporting philosophy, which critics say calls on Christian journalists to "'report biblically,' not objectively." Olasky argues in his book Telling the Truth that God created the world, knows more about it than anyone else, and explains its nature in the Bible, so "biblical objectivity" accurately depicts the world as it is, and conventional objectivity is really a balancing of subjectivities.^[2]. WJI reorganized its mission to emphasize training for secular media, and World's parent organization created a World New Media division to train reporters for positions in Christian publications. IN THE NAME OF ALLAH ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Investors Business Daily is a national newspaper, published Monday through Friday, that covers business and finance. ... ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The World Journalism Institute (WJI) is a journalism school whose mission statement is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists of faith to enter the mainstream newsrooms of America. ...

Also controversial for some was Olasky's editing during the late 1980s and early 1990s of the 16-book Turning Point Christian Worldview series funded by Howard Ahmanson, Jr.'s Fieldstead Institute, which champions and funds the cause of "total integration of Biblical law into our lives."^[3][4] Ahmanson funded four of Olasky's 30 books, and Michelle Goldberg, author of the book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, places Olasky in a crucial role to Christian reconstructionism and dominionism, saying "I’m not sure whether he actually identifies himself as a Christian reconstructionist, but he’s very close to Christian reconstructionism." Olasky, however, calls himself a "Christian libertarian" and criticized Christian reconstructionism in one of his books, Standing for Christ in a Modern Babylon. Goldberg also notes that the phrase now associated with Republicans, "compassionate conservatism," is in the title of one of Olasky’s books, and that Olasky was an advisor on Bush’s first Presidential campaign, influencing not only the thinking of Bush, but the thinking of the Republican Party.^[5]. Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr (born 1950) is an American millionaire philanthropist who funds the causes of Christian fundamentalism. ... Christian Reconstructionism is a religious and theological movement within Protestant Christianity that calls for Christians to put their faith into action in all areas of life. ... This article is on the political-religious concept of dominionism. ...

Books

• Corporate Public Relations: A New Historical Perspective (1987)
• Turning Point: A Christian Worldview Declaration (1987, with Herbert Schlossberg)
• Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy: Public Affairs Giving and the Forbes 100 (1987, foreword by Donald Rumsfeld)
• Freedom, Justice and Hope: Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed (1988, with Clark Pinnock, Herbert Schlossberg, and Pierre Berthoud)
• Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of American News Media (1988)
• The Press and Abortion, 1838–1988 (1988)
• Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism (1991)
• Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy: Funding False Compassion (1991, with Daniel T. Oliver and Robert V. Pambianco)
• More Than Kindness: A Compassionate Approach to Crisis Childbearing (1992, with Susan Olasky)
• The Tragedy of American Compassion (1992, republished in 1995)
• Abortion Rites: A Social History of Abortion in America (1992)
• Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy: The Progressive Deception (1992, with Daniel T. Oliver and Stuart Nolan)
• Philanthropically Correct: The Story of the Council on Foundations (1993)
• Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America (1995)
• Telling the Truth: How to Revitalize Christian Journalism (1996)
• Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens into Heroes (1996)
• Whirled Views: Tracking Today's Culture Storms (1997, with Joel Belz)
• The American Leadership Tradition: Moral Vision from Washington to Clinton (1999)
• Compassionate Conservatism: What it is, What it Does, and How it Can Transform America (2000, introduction by George W. Bush)
• The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader's Faith on a Nation's Destiny (2000)
• Standing for Christ in a Modern Babylon (2003)
• The Religions Next Door: What We Need To Know About Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, And Islam - and What Reporters Are Missing (2004)
• Monkey Business (2005, with John Perry)
• Scimitar's Edge (2006)
• The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, and A New Strategy for Future Crises (2006)

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External links

• List of Olasky's Columns
• WORLD Magazine
• Acton Institute

References

1. ^ Goldberg, Jonah (2000). McCain's Still My Guy. Goldberg file. nationalreview.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-08.
2. ^ Moll, Rob (2004). World Journalism Institute Changes Its Focus. Christianity Today. Christianity Today International. Retrieved on 2006-08-08.
3. ^ The strength of their conviction Peter Larsen. The Orange County Register, August 10 2004
4. ^ Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence Part 3 No Longer Without Sheep Frederick Clarkson. Political Research Associates, March/June 1994.
5. ^ BuzzFlash interview: Michelle Goldberg Christian nationalism inside America's mega-churches WorkingForChange, June 2 2006.

• Marvin Olasky profile, NNDB
• University of Texas information page
• Atheists.org profile
• Media Transparency profile
• Acton Institute profile
• "World Journalism Institute Changes Its Focus: Biblical objectivity" replaced with mainstream objectivity in training of future Christian journalists," by Rob Moll, Christianity Today (06/11/2004)
• Email interview with Marvin Olasky, December 25, 2004