Marvin Olasky

Editor-in-chief of WORLD. Dean, World Journalism Institute. Senior Fellow, Acton Institute. Susan and I have been married for 44 years. Four sons, four daughters-in-law, five grandchildren. Formal education: B.A. from Yale University in 1971, Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1976. Real education: Grew up in Judaism, became an atheist and a communist, and then (purely through God's grace) a Christian in 1976. Other activities over the years: foster parent, Pony League assistant coach, PTA president, board chairman of a crisis pregnancy center and a Christian school, elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Credited (or discredited) with developing the ideas of compassionate conservatism and biblical objectivity.