{"id":17421,"date":"2011-09-20T08:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=17421"},"modified":"2011-09-20T08:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T14:46:39","slug":"ex-communist-dr-marvin-olasky-to-speak-at-jones-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/09\/20\/ex-communist-dr-marvin-olasky-to-speak-at-jones-auditorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Communist Dr. Marvin Olasky To Speak At Jones Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ex-Communist Dr. Marvin Olasky To Speak At Jones Auditorium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Matt Farmer <\/p>\n<p>Students at College of the Ozarks will have the opportunity to hear the story of ex-communist Dr. Marvin Olasky on September 27, at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium. <\/p>\n<p>Olasky is the editor-in-chief of \u201cWORLD\u201d magazine and author of more than 20 books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion. President George W. Bush has called him \u201ccompassionate conservatism\u2019s leading thinker.\u201d He is a widely-recognized conservative pundit, journalist and historian. <\/p>\n<p>Born in Boston to a Jewish family, Olasky became an atheist and Marxist when he entered high school. He then joined the Communist Party in 1972. His beliefs made a complete reversal after a spiritual awakening at the University of Michigan when he read the New Testament in Russian. Olasky became a passionate supporter of the Christian Conservative movement. In 1992, he helped found the Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Olasky was provost of The King\u2019s College in New York City from 2007 to 2011, prior to which he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin journalism department from 2003-2007. He joined \u201cWORLD\u201d magazine in 1990 and became its editor-in-chief in 2001. He recently has been appointed as Professor of Journalism, and the inaugural holder of Patrick Henry College\u2019s Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy.  <\/p>\n<p>In 1995, Olasky became an occasional advisor to Texas gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush.  Bush made faith-based programs a major component of his 2000 presidential campaign, and Olasky\u2019s academic work helped form the basis for Bush\u2019s \u201ccompassionate conservatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students will receive priority seating for the event; remaining seats will be available to the public free of charge. For more information, please contact Christian Ministries at 417-690-3446. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Communist Dr. Marvin Olasky To Speak At Jones Auditorium By: Matt Farmer Students at College of the Ozarks will have the opportunity to hear the story of ex-communist Dr. Marvin Olasky on September 27, at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium. Olasky is the editor-in-chief of \u201cWORLD\u201d magazine and author of more than 20 books, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,16,71,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}