Doubletake

A Christian journalist’s well-justified expose of a preacher’s online double life ends with gut-wrenching consequences. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate Additional support comes from The Amplified Bible, from The Lockman Foundation, is designed to bring out the full depth of meaning in Scripture by expanding key words and phrases from the original languages. Its uniqu...

Conceived as a publicity stunt, the Scopes trial raised the most significant question of all

Everybody knows you’re not supposed to bargain with God–but what if you do?

When Gerald Groff took his job at the Post Office in 2012, taking Sundays off wasn’t an issue. USPS didn’t deliver on Sundays. Then about a decade ago Amazon decided people simply had to have their gadgets and groceries delivered on Sundays and hired USPS to help. Suddenly Groff had a choice: keep his job or his convictions. He decided to try for both–and the case is still not settled, exactly. To...

After Radha Manickam loses almost his entire family under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, hope arrives in a most unlikely way

Radha Manickam and his family struggle to survive in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal work camps

The communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on April 17, 1975. Radha Manickam, a new Christian, watched them arrive from the balcony of his parents’ apartment.  It was Radha’s first exposure to the Khmer Rouge. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, led the most violent and brutal government in modern history. In its doomed attempt to create an agrarian utopia,...

The Assad government is gone, but Christians in northeast Syria are still stuck in a simmering conflict

On December 8 the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known as HTS, overthrew the brutal government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. There’s a new regime in Damascus, but in northeast Syria a lot remains the same. It’s still one of the most chaotic places in the world. WORLD correspondent Caleb Welde traveled around the region in November of 2023 with the Free Burma Rangers. That’s a Christian...

Last year Doubletake host Les Sillars wrote a series of letters to his father. He never sent them. Now he can't.

Two game show contestants realize that everything we have is a gift

Parents at a small Christian school who pledged to get rid of social media discover that’s easier said than done

A story about a woman who wishes she’d asked a few more questions before making some life and death decisions

The story of a woman who faced a really loaded question: how far should you go to get pregnant?

Through the eyes of a couple who lived through some of its best features–and some of its worst

WORLD Radio’s Jenny Rough was worried. Last year, her memory seemed to be slipping, and few things scared her more than descending into dementia as she got older. She also came across some recent research that tied dementia and Alzheimer's disease to a person’s ability to navigate–and Jenny has always had a little trouble with maps. Worst of all, her own mother had passed away from Parkinson’s dis...

Mallory Millett blames her own feminist icon sister Kate for the most destructive ideas about women the world has ever seen

A father and his son push through challenges God has set before them

Could you testify to Christ if your life was on the line?

A Christian woman learns what it means to patrol the line between life and death

A young man teaches himself to “lucid dream” and stumbles into one of life’s great mysteries

An Albanian family struggles desperately to avoid getting caught up in “blood feud”

Stewart Freeman heads into one of the metaverse’s wildest apps to preach the Gospel

A young man explores a new technology that delivers what he was looking for–just not in the way he expected

An Illinois couple learns the hard way that sometimes people aren’t quite what they seem