Asheville-based World Magazine moving from Innsbruck Mall to new offices in Biltmore Village

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Here’s part of the announcement about World Magazine, a Christian magazine based in Asheville:

After 34 years in the same building, WORLD magazine is this month moving its offices. We’ve grown, it seems, to the point where we need something a little smaller.

“Hold on!,” I hear someone object. “Didn’t you tell us just a couple of issues back that WORLD is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary? And what on earth do you mean when you say you’ve grown—and now need smaller quarters?”

WORLD magazine is in fact just 25 years old this year. But its corporate history actually goes back to 1942, when physician-missionary-journalist Nelson Bell (he was also Billy Graham’s father-in-law) returned from China to Asheville, N.C., and founded a magazine here called The Southern Presbyterian Journal. For the next generation, that sturdy publication championed the cause of conservative Presbyterianism—ultimately leading, most church historians would agree, to the 1973 founding of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).