Deep in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley there is a landmark that is a part of American history---Belle Grove Plantation, in Middletown, Va.
World Journalism Institute is mentioned in the new book by D. Michael Lindsay, Faith in the Halls of Power. FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University who has previously worked with pollster George Gallup Jr., looks at the rise of evangelical Christian influence in the spheres of power of American public life: political, intellectual, cultural and economic.
The World Journalism Institute (WJI) was founded by Robert Case II in 1999. WJI is an independent journalism school whose mission is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America. In 1998, Marvin Olasky, Nick Eicher, and Robert Case II discussed the possibility of establishing a independent school of journalism with Joel Belz, publisher of World magazine.
Michael Gerson to keynote at WJI Conference in May 2008 at King's College, Empire State Building.