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One minute 41-year-old David Hoosier was sitting on his Joplin, Mo., front porch. The next he was huddling in the bathroom with his wife, four kids, and dog listening as a tornado ripped up his house. One minute his house sat on a peaceful, tree-lined street. The next the entire area was reduced to piles of twisted metal, torn-down power lines, and bare tree stumps. Sitting outside a shelter, smoking a cigarette, Hoosier buried his head in his arms. He trembled and asked, “What do I do now?” Other residents, accustomed to tornados hitting their region but shocked at the magni-
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Arizona wins one The Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s law that revokes or suspends the licenses of businesses that hire illegal immigrants, ruling in a 5-3 decision that federal immigration law does not preempt the state’s law. The Chamber of Commerce had challenged the law (which then-Gov. Janet Napolitano, now secretary of homeland security, signed), calling it a “business death penalty,” and found support from liberal groups and the Obama administration, while 13 states wrote amicus briefs in support of Arizona. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority—the conservative justices along with swing justice Anthony Kennedy—upheld the law and argued that while only the federal government can impose civil or criminal sanctions on employers in regard to immigration, federal law includes an exception that allows states to regulate immigration through licensure. Three justices dissented (Elena Kagan recused herself), contending that revoking a license was a civil penalty itself and therefore was prohibited under federal law. The dissenters also argued that the law would push businesses to discriminate in order to avoid losing their licenses. The decision is one victory for Arizona after the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals temporarily blocked its newer, more controversial immigration law, requiring law enforcement to check the immigration status of suspicious individuals.
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A county judge in Wisconsin struck down the state’s controversial law that limits collective bargaining power for public employees, saying that legislators violated an open-meetings law that requires a 24-hour public notice before passing legislation. Republican legislators argued that they could pass the bill without adhering to the openmeetings requirement because it was an emergency measure, but Judge Maryann Sumi, an appointee of Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, said she didn’t find evidence that justified emergency conditions. “This case is the example of values protected by the open meetings law: transparency in government, the right of citizens to participate in their government and respect for the rule of law,” she wrote in her opinion. The conservative-majority state Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case June 6. Republican legislators have said that if the courts strike down the law over the procedural matter, they will simply pass it again, which they can do with their majorities even if Democratic legislators remain in the state to vote.
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A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that a man detained after 9/11 on the pretext of being a material witness in a terrorism case could not sue Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft for his detention, ruling that Ashcroft deserved qualified, but not absolute, immunity. Federal authorities detained the American man, Abdullah al-Kidd, as he was about to board a plane to Saudi Arabia, and held him for 16 days before releasing him without calling him to testify. The Obama administration sided with the Bush administration in this case, backing Ashcroft’s immunity. “Qualified immunity gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions,” wrote Justice Antonin Scalia in the court’s opinion. The court was united on the immunity question, saying Ashcroft broke no laws, but divided about the extent of freedom authorities have to detain people on the pretext of BREATHING ROOM: Ashcroft being material witnesses, a at a 2004 press conference foggy area of law in the postto discuss terror threats. 9/11 world.
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PREMEDITATED: Atong Aken, age , who was separated from her mother while fleeing Abyei, weeps in an internally displaced persons camp in Southern Sudan on May .
Darfur—which has killed over , Sudanese and displaced nearly million. “Those forces allow them to maintain deniability while fomenting conflict at the same time,” said Dan Sullivan, senior policy analyst for the Save Darfur Coalition. Satellite imagery showed weeks of military buildup around Abyei of tanks, helicopters, and military personnel. The invasion was a “premeditated and well-planned” operation, according to the Satellite Sentinel Project. Along with worry that Khartoum Sudanese forces attack key border town on eve and its military personnel will now of South Sudan’s independence BY MINDY BELZ attempt to expand the land grab to other border areas, particularly those with oil reserves, experts blame the United States for poor follow-through on the “Abyei is Sudanese land, a Northern Sudanese forces Comprehensive Peace Agreement (). land [and] we will not withdraw from attacked the border town of The Bush administration helped to it,” vowed Sudanese president Omar Abyei, at least , residents supervise its drafting, and in particular al-Bashir on May . had fled. In that time, according U.S. diplomats drafted the Abyei Protocol. Abyei’s status was not decided in a to aid workers, some traveled up to It called for a separate referendum in January referendum when South miles south, seeking sanctuary from which residents could determine the Sudanese overwhelmingly voted to what could be the opening assault in a district’s status, but was scuttled by secede from the North under terms of a renewed civil war. Khartoum. “The Obama administration peace agreement. Formal indeWorkers with a Reformed contributed hugely to the climate leading pendence is set for July . The North has Presbyterian Church of North America up to this,” charged Roger Winter, former hotly contested the Connecticut-sized outpost near Aweil said a small group of special representative to the State district, which straddles the borders of arrived from Abyei, though one child Department for Sudan and longtime what will become two countries and at had died along the way. The rainy season head of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. one time was responsible for one-fourth has begun, making travel difficult. And When Northern forces attacked Abyei in of Sudan’s crude oil production. besides chasing Abyei residents out of —similar to last month’s incursion— Southerners say any dispute over the their homes and off their land just at the the United States did not respond. territory is a recent one. “It is clearly end of growing season, Northern forces Sullivan believes that the United Dinka Ngok land and used to be part of have blocked shipments of food and fuel States may punish Khartoum for the the South,” said John Ashworth, adviser south. Market stalls around Aweil are invasion: Sudan was due to come off the to the Sudan Ecumenical Forum. But empty, prices are soaring, and even aid U.S. list of state sponsors of the Khartoum government has forcibly groups are discovering the difficulty of terrorism and to win depopulated Abyei of helping the newly displaced. “Feeding debt relief before the Dinkas and moved in people is likely to get very bad very South’s July indepenArab tribes known as soon,” one worker told me. dence. But Winter Misseriya. Ashworth The Khartoum government’s Sudan fears post-invasion says they “are seasonal Alliance Forces () launched the rhetoric may be too nomads, not attack on Abyei May using helicopter little too late: “This is a residents.” gunships, tanks, and bombers. Observers Khartoum land grab of huge impact That kind of could not number the casualties, but that will destabilize the ethnic cleansing nearly a week after the assault, flames Abyei area and perhaps the new by proxy forces is rising above homes and businesses set South Sudan state,” he told similar to tactics afire still blazed. The quickly occume. “The situation has, and I do Aweil used during the pied the town and surrounding villages, not exaggerate, genocidal conflict in and despite international condemnation potential.” A nearby the government has vowed not to leave.
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named ranking leaders of the organization as coordinating the attack with the al-Qaedalinked terror group. His testimony prompted attorney James Krindler, who is representing U.S. victims of the Mumbai attack, to declare: “It’s not just officers at the rank of Majors who are handling terrorists or sponsoring terror. chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha and its former director-general Lt. Gen. (retired) Nadeem Taj should also come clean.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court told California it must reduce its prison population by about , prisoners over the next two years. The majority’s opinion—which swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy penned with support from Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Stephen Breyer—said the state’s prisons are so overcrowded they are “incompatible with the concept of human dignity.” A lower court found that one prisoner in the system died for lack of medical care every six or seven days. Conservative justices sharply dissented from the decision, saying the ruling didn’t solve California’s underlying problems and predicting disaster from such massive prisoner reentry. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissent, which Justice Clarence Thomas joined, saying the decision was “perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our nation’s history.” Justice Samuel Alito wrote a separate dissenting opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts. But faith-based and community organizations were already meeting with California corrections officials the morning the high court issued the decision. “California has no budget,” said Prison Fellowship’s Pat Nolan, and it will need the outside groups to coordinate reentry programs critical to implementing the court’s order. “Here are all these faith-based and community groups who are saying, ‘We’ll do it,’” said Nolan, who served in the California legislature for years, then spent over two years in prison after being convicted on a corruption charge, which sparked his desire to work on prison reform. Nolan blamed the California legislature’s inaction for the court’s intervention.
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A detailed report reveals ongoing cooperation between Iran and North Korea on ballistic missile technology along with Chinese assistance to move materiel between the two countries. But it’s unlikely the public will get a look at it: China as a permanent member of the Security Council is blocking its release. analyst Nathan Hughes said it doesn’t take official word to know of the trilateral cooperation; the “simultaneous existence of near-identical medium-range ballistic missiles in each country’s arsenal,” he said, should tell us they’re working together. Without publicizing the report, Security Council members, including the United States, are likely to get a look at its contents.
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A trial in Chicago could provide important clues to the United States about the extent of Pakistan’s official links to terrorists following the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden. David Headley, the star witness in the trial of Tahawwur Rana, told a U.S. district court in late-May testimony that in all arrangements leading up to a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, there was extensive coordination between Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistan’s intelligence service, the . Rana is a Pakistani-Canadian on trial in federal court for his role in the Mumbai attacks that killed people, including six Americans. Headley, a drug dealer turned informant, has pleaded guilty to helping plan the massacre. The two are charged with conducting surveillance for it, as well as plotting other attacks. On the witness stand Headley recalled at least training sessions with the and
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Saudi Arabian authorities arrested a woman for taking part in a campaign protesting a national law that bars women from driving. Religious police detained Manal al-Sharif, , after she got behind the wheel of a car May and drove around with her brother. Saudi Arabia is the only country that still bars women from driving.
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SUBPOENAED New York Times reporter James Risen says he will fight a subpoena aimed at forcing him to testify at the September trial of former operative Jeffrey Sterling, who is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information that appeared in Risen’s book, State of War: The Secret History of the and the Bush Administration. At issue is a chapter that details a plan during the Clinton administration to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.
An Egyptian court has ordered the withdrawal of citizenship for a Coptic Christian living in the United States. In stripping him of his citizenship, authorities have accused Morris Sadek, who is the president of the National American Coptic Assembly and a lawyer in Washington, D.C., of “high treason” for his incitement against Egypt. The charges include insulting Islam and supporting Judaism.
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REPATRIATED The U.S. military returned the remains of a Guantanamo captive to Afghanistan after the man reportedly committed suicide using a bed sheet. The prisoner, identified only as Inayatullah, had arrived at Guantanamo in September on suspicion of acting as a senior al-Qaeda member in Iran.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) launched his presidential run on May by promising to bring fiscal responsibility back to Washington. His announcement follows news that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) has decided not to run due to family reasons, positioning Pawlenty as the top challenger thus far to presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney.
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Dispatches > Quotables “I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live.” YASUTERU YAMADA, a retired engineer in Japan, on entering the damaged and dangerous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in order to make repairs. Yamada and other seniors have volunteered for the hazardous work because, they say, cancer from radiation exposure wouldn’t develop until after they would likely die of natural causes.
“Once the post-quake reconstruction efforts are settled, I will pass on my responsibility to younger generations.” Japanese Prime Minister NAOTO KAN, in a successful effort to defeat a June no-confidence motion, saying he would step down after Japan recovers from the March earthquake and tsunami. Kan, who didn’t give a timetable for his plans, has been criticized for moving slowly in response to the disaster.
“Barack Obama has failed America.” Former Massachusetts Gov. MITT ROMNEY, announcing in a June speech that he would seek the Republican nomination for president.
“Indiana Jones is old school. We’ve moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford.” Egyptologist SARAH PARCAK,, after satellite images revealed lost Egyptian pyramids.
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Alameda, Calif., Interim Fire Chief MICHAEL D’ORAZI, on why first responders on May watched a man drown in the San Francisco Bay without helping him. The man was apparently suicidal, but D’Orazi said the department would change its policies to give firefighters more discretion in rescues.
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A judge in Northeast Ohio got creative when sentencing a couple who had caused big trouble for local rescue authorities during an April flood. Couple Bruce Crawford, , and Grace Nash, , cost local authorities a fortune on a search-and-rescue operation when they went missing after having gone for a swim in the flood-swollen Grand River without life preservers. In a deal to avoid jail time, the imprudent couple agreed to don life jackets and stand in a miniature swimming pool handing out water safety brochures during a festival in Painesville, Ohio.
Tired of preparing for hurricanes, floods, or tornadoes? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has something else to get ready for: a zombie apocalypse. In an official posting credited to the agency’s Public Health Matters blog on May , government blogger Ali S. Khan warned citizens that they need to be prepared for uprisings of the undead. “In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way,” Khan wrote. That’s when, according to Khan, a standard emergency kit with food and water would come in handy.
Willing to violate a bank’s implicit “no robbery” policy, one might wonder why an unknown thief in Columbus, Ohio, was willing to comply with the bank’s dress code. officials say a man in his s entered a PNC Bank on May and was making his way to the teller when bank officials informed him of the establishment’s “no hats, no hoods” policy. The unidentified man complied, lowering his hood and then calmly walking to the counter, announcing he had a gun, and demanding the bank teller hand over the cash. The teller complied, but because the man lowered his hood, the bank was able to turn over clear film footage of the thief to authorities, who are still hunting him down.
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Staff at a British aquarium noticed something strange on the floor of the shark tank: shark eggs. That was unusual because, as far as aquarium staff knew, all the sharks in the ocean exhibit at England’s Sea Life Center gave live birth to their young rather than laying eggs. That’s when divers began searching for an interloper. Weeks later, staff discovered a carpet shark that had, unknown to everyone, been living in the half-million liter salt-water tank for years out of sight from scientists, divers, and staff. Senior aquarist Martin Sutcliffe said the carpet shark, so named for its propensity to lie camouflaged on the ocean floor, would have remained unseen out of fear. “A small carpet shark would possibly feel threatened by the larger sharks in the tank, which is the only explanation we can come up with for it keeping out of sight for so long.”
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Venezuelan bus driver Ramon Parra will take to his grave a dubious distinction: Government officials have suspended his license, marking the first time the nation has ever penalized a driver by taking away roadway privileges. “It is important to emphasize that this is a totally new act; for the first time in Venezuela we are suspending a driving license, for consecutive months,” National Police Chief Luis Fernandez said. Authorities stopped Parra for driving an overstuffed passenger bus at unsafe speeds with only five of the vehicle’s six wheels attached. The final wheel was occupying a passenger row in the cabin.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Santa Teresa, N.M., made an epic, if unusual, bust at a checkpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border on May . But it wasn’t cocaine or marijuana that federal agents confiscated. Border officials seized pounds of contraband bologna. Agents say someone tried to drive the bologna, in large rolls, across the border. Agents stopped the deli trafficker because bologna is made from pork, which is regulated at points of entry along the nation’s border with Mexico.
The hat that Princess Beatrice was roundly scorned for wearing to the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton in May has turned out to be quite the hit. The hat was mocked as looking like a toilet seat, and Princess Beatrice said she was caught off guard by the amount of criticism her head gear received. But affirming that all publicity is good publicity, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson parlayed the attention into a large donation to two charities. The princess arranged for the hat to be sold on eBay and donated the , it raised to and Children in Crisis.
Forget seeing-eye dogs, or even seeing-eye Shetland ponies. When a blind horse named Sissy showed up at Michelle Feldstein’s Idaho ranch for disadvantaged animals, it arrived with a squad of seeing-eye goats and sheep. Feldstein and her husband Al operate Deer Haven Ranch, a private rescue facility on acres, which took in Sissy, a -year-old blind horse, after a similar facility in western Montana closed down this winter. Along with Sissy came goats and sheep that surround the horse as she walks, leading her to food, water, and shelter and making sure she doesn’t step into trouble. “They round her up at feeding time and then move aside to make sure she gets to the hay,” Feldstein told the Reuters new service. “They show her where the water is and stand between her and the fence to let her know the fence is there.”
Texans intent on getting up close and personal with catfish may not have to drive to Oklahoma or Louisiana any longer. That’s because a group of East Texas state legislators have written and passed a bill that makes noodling legal in the Lone Star State. Currently, just states allow noodling—a thrill sport in which fishermen wade into muddy waters and attempt to catch catfish by hand. Marty Jenkins of CatfishGrabbers.com said that a noodler looks for a hole in a river or lake bottom, sticks his hand in, and anticipates a bite. “You don’t know if anything’s in that hole at all, you run your hands down into that hole and all of a sudden a fish comes out and bites you, and you have to try to bring it out with your hand,” Jenkins said. State Senator Bob Deuell of the East Texas town of Greenville spearheaded the bill to legalize noodling, which now needs Gov. Rick Perry’s signature. “I personally don’t noodle,” Deuell said, “but I would defend to the death your right to do so.” JUNE 18, 2011
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up hope but the rest of us weren’t ready to. It didn’t seem such a big thing to me, being checked in and tagged and charted. But it was hard for her. She had lost the ability to make a decision and make it stick; she was reduced to meat, shuffled between facilities, more than ready for it to be over. Hitchens isn’t there yet, but barring some miracle turnaround he’s getting close. In a recent piece for Vanity Fair (“Unspoken Truths”) he writes nothing, or very little, about his old nemesis the Almighty, but elsewhere he has remarked on gloating emails he’s received from certain believers: Aha! You used your voice to blaspheme God, now God is strangling your voice—poetic justice. In spite of such ungracious communication, Hitchens doesn’t regard all Christians as spiteful. He’s become a close friend of Dr. Francis Collins, noted evangelical and director of the Human Genome Project, who contributed to Hitchens’ cancer treatment. In fact, he’s always had Christian friends whom he admired in spite of their peculiar delusion. He’s a big man that way. But when he pictures God, as if there were such a being, it’s the petty and vindictive god of the gloaters. Would he bring God down to see how the other half lives? Sorry, that’s already happened. Brought about by Himself, in a way that confounds the wise. Humiliating treatment? Been there. Piece of meat? Done that. Mocking, vindictive emails? The first-century equivalent, which was at least as brutal. Throat ripped, breath choked, voice ravaged, abandoned to the uttermost despair? Oh yes. I don’t know what God is doing to Hitchens, but whatever it is, it’s a great deal less than He did to Himself. And it could just be that, by robbing an eloquent man of speech, God is making it possible for him finally to listen. For the last year or so, Hitchens has thanked sympathetic Christians for their prayers but insists they will make no difference in his belief, or lack thereof. Ignore that. The Hound of Heaven may be on the hunt. A Email: jcheaney@worldmag.com
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to the History Channel’s latest documentary, Gettysburg, noise and smoke rise so thick through the air, Lt. Col. Rufus Dawes has to rely on moving the flag to signal his troops. While narrator Sam Rockwell explains that the flag, waving high and bright above the battlefield, is a magnet for enemy fire, the hands of the soldier holding it go limp with death, threatening to drop it. Another pair of hands pushes forward and grasps the standard before that can happen. An instant later, they too go limp. In a matter of minutes, flag bearers are killed in succession, but the hands keep coming and the colors never touch the ground. It’s a moving and terrible moment that proves from the outset that what we’re watching is no dry history lesson. With executive producers Ridley (Black Hawk Down,
Gladiator) and Tony (Top Gun, Unstoppable) Scott at the helm, the most significant battle of the Civil War is brutal, gut-wrenching, and personal. It’s also enlightening in a way few documentaries are. Part of the History Channel’s four-year initiative to commemorate the th anniversary of the Civil War, the film uses talking heads and archival photography sparingly, relying instead on bloody reenactments, personal biography, and detailed diagrams of battle plans and artillery. The effects are especially useful to newcomers to the Civil War specifically and to understanding military strategy in general. The reason and purpose for the fishhook formation employed by the Union is fascinatingly clear, as are the actions of the renegade general that endangered it. Similarly, the short demonstrations of pioNO DRY HISTORY neering weaponry—like LESSON: A scene cannon balls that were depicting Picket’s really tin casings packed Charge during the with iron balls that Gettysburg battle. JUNE 18, 2011
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United States, the movie profiles various soldiers from all walks of life. Their stories, some noble, some shameful, remind us that it was real men and not stern black-and-white daguerreotypes fighting for the future of our nation. And as we watch rank-andfile Union soldier Amos Humiston die clutching a photo of his three young children, we can’t help but think of the fathers sacrificing themselves for the sake of their children today. Though it premiered on Memorial Day, the History Channel will no doubt continue to run the twohour film in heavy rotation until the anniversary of Gettysburg in July. This is good news as it gives viewers multiple opportunities to learn from that seminal moment in U.S. history. As Ridley Scott commented to the Associated Press about the Civil War, “It’s wrong to say that war doesn’t settle anything, because in this instance it did. It’s a bit like why we keep doing movies about Nazi Germany. Because it should never be forgotten.” A
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would scatter on firing— help explain their devastating effect. And the effects are devastating, blowing apart 15 men at a time and wounding twice that number. The violence and brutality of the battles will be too much for young or sensitive viewers (at some points, blood splashes realistically across the camera lens), but it is less bloody than what you might see in an average PG-13 action movie. Thanks to such innovations to the genre, Gettysburg has a gritty immediacy rare for Civil War movies, let alone Civil War documentaries. Even though we know the outcome of the battle, we feel the tension of each skirmish. And unlike most entertainment based on the period, director Adrian Moat never lets us forget the context for the conflict, highlighting the fact that slaves in the Gettysburg region took the opportunity of the battle to flee and that 150,000 slaves enlisted in the Union Army. But the best thing about the film is the individual lives it explores. Along with Dawes, who went on to start a lumber business, become a congressman, and father a future vice president of the
Precious few sequels exceed the quality of their predecessors, but a more emotionally resonant story, coupled with the usual assortment of gags, makes Kung Fu Panda 2 one of the exceptions to the rule. Newly minted kung fu master Po, now slightly less obese though still obsessed with food, and his five kung fu comrades have to face off against an evil peacock (yes, peacock) who is threatening China with his newly developed application of gunpowder for cannons. In a fight with the peacock’s lupine minions, Po has a flashback to his infancy that makes him question whether the goose who raised him is his true father. (The first film would have the viewer believe that there was nothing questionable about a goose siring a panda.) Po’s ensuing identity crisis ends up giving him added incentive to seek out the peacock, who may hold clues to the fate of Po’s real parents. Gluttonous jokes abound in this entertaining family film (rated PG for martial arts action and mild violence), but what drives the story are several characters’ pursuit of “inner peace.” The means of achieving inner peace in this film’s universe is definitely Taoistoriented and leans toward humanism (if one can apply that word to a film populated with pandas, peacocks, geese, and wolves). That being said, the film also contains important messages about not letting an inauspicious background negatively influence one’s present and future actions. A wealth of A-list vocal talent bolsters the film’s stunning visuals, which are very impressive in 3D. Jack Black returns as Po, as do Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, and Dustin Hoffman as Po’s kung fu comrades. Gary Oldman adds sophisticated malevolence to his turn as the tormented and dangerous peacock Shen. Though a watered-down Taoist philosophy permeates the film, the family dramas at the core of Kung Fu Panda 2 succeed in providing an engaging and surprisingly effective viewing experience, as long as one can separate the yin from the yang.
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himself drawn toward Picasso’s muse (Marion Cotillard), who, like Gil, romanticizes Paris’ past. Filmmakers are fond of throwing together lovers from different eras and forcing them to choose between their present life and true love in a time that is (despite the lack of modern plumbing and medicine) invariably disentangled from modern cares: simpler, happier, and terribly romantic. Midnight in Paris works better than most because it challenges the usual predictable premises and eschews the usual ridiculous time travel vehicles. Wilson’s earnestness sells the plot; his sweet, befuddled mien makes Gil the most likable Woody Allen protagonist we may ever meet. Midnight in Paris (rated PG-13 for sexual references and alcohol use) slyly critiques the human tendency to bemoan the emptiness and frivolity of every generation—our propensity to see the foreign as superior to the familiar, and believe that changing our setting can change ourselves.
mutants to thwart Shaw. Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) can take on different forms. Others fly or control sound waves. As “better men,” will mutants choose to value human life or to strike preemptively in the human versus mutant war they foresee? Rated PG-13, the film has a few mild instances of sexually suggestive situations, but it is not overtly sexual and is mostly obscenity-free. It is, however, an intense movie with serious themes, starting with a family separation in the horror of the Holocaust and leading to death scenes that are not intense in their visual graphics but are in their emotional resonance. Blockbusters are all about the effects and this movie doesn’t disappoint, whether it’s cutting ships with their own anchor cables or tossing guided missiles around like darts. Effects are fun, but gravitas makes a movie great. The choice between good and evil does not always seem clear-cut at the time. One man will become Dr. X and another his archrival Magneto. Who will be the better man morally as well as physically? June 18, 2011
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C W to justify his Existential Reasons for Belief in God by its subtitle: A Defense of Desires & Emotions for Faith (, ). He succeeds partially. Sure, desires are important. Yes, rationalists undervalue emotion. And yet, as the apostle Paul rightly argued, facts matter: If the resurrection did not occur we are pitiful idiots to profess Christ. Paul ruled out the wish-fulfillment defense— that we yearn for Him so He must be there, and that if we don’t believe we’ll be disconsolate in facing our mortality. As I was coming to Christ in , I read Christian existentialists like Gabriel Marcel. They helped a little but hindered more. Dallas Willard’s Knowing Christ Today (HarperOne ) stares down secularist dogma that morality is “harmful to any prospect of a full and free life.” Willard sets out the
“stark alternative: Either the physical universe was not produced by anything or it was produced by something that is not physical—something spiritual in that minimal sense. The former cannot be, so the latter is the case.” This means we should pay attention to the will of the producer, God. Willard refuses to accept the notion that we can only know things by scientific testing. We can know things about ourselves. (For example, I know that without Christ I’d be thoroughly rotten, and that Jesus twice in my years has made me radically change direction.) We can
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Brian Hedges’ Christ Formed in You (Shepherd, ) is a solid account of how God changes us. He notes that suffering is not good but God “tailor-makes our suffering” so bad things work together for our good. Philip Graham Ryken’s Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Crossway, ) is a clear introduction to the book that shows how nothing works apart from God. Kelly Kapic’s God So Loved, He Gave (Zondervan, ) describes well the generosity of God. Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (Basic, ) shows our frequent response: We selfishly declare our independence from Him. —M.O.
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Michael Wittmer’s Christ Alone (Edenridge, ) is a lucid response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins. Wittmer notes that “to understand God we need full and equal parts of divine love and divine justice,” yet Bell is one-sided. A Place for Truth: Leading Thinkers Explore Life’s Hardest Questions (, ) provides highlights of Veritas Forums on dozens of campuses over the past two decades that have helped students recognize God’s existence. Edgar Andrews’ Who Made God? (, ) deals with savants who can’t detect God through their instruments and therefore think He doesn’t exist—and yet, as Andrews writes, “If the God of the Bible does indeed exist, the first consequence is that the ultimate origin of material things will never be explicable in material terms.”
know things about the world. (I know that our existence is miraculous, that bad people salted by Scripture become better, and that those with power often act in beastly ways.) Willard is right to say that we cannot satisfy ourselves with feeling. We need to know. Willard also notes that “moral standards have come to be regarded as mere displays of social and economic power and those who employ them as blind or hypocritical.” He wonders why we should grant any legitimacy to professors who preach on the hypocrisy of others, particularly because “they do not seriously study the spiritual life in those who actually live it. They content themselves with psychological ‘explanations’ of the ‘saints’ they happen to know about, with citations of what ‘science says.’” After reading Willard, I picked up a new study Bible sent to me and was delighted. The Study Bible was ’s Book of the Year in , but the Study Bible (Holman, ) is also useful, with study notes, maps, and charts all emphasizing Christianity’s factual basis. I particularly liked its boxes that bring out the meanings of Hebrew and Greek words.
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Choosing to See Mary Beth Chapman It is hard to imagine a family tragedy with more far-reaching consequences than when one child accidentally kills another. That’s what happened to the Chapmans when their -year-old son ran over their -year-old daughter in the driveway of their home. Mary Beth Chapman, wife of singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman, tells that story in the context of her walk with God. She shows how God grew her through prior struggles with depression, challenges brought about by her husband’s celebrity and a growing family, and their experience of adoption. She writes honestly about difficult things, and you come away from the book seeing God’s faithfulness even in this hard chapter, and how Chapman’s Christian community served as conduits for His love. Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected Priscilla Shirer Shirer examines the book of Jonah from her perspective as a wife and mother, writing in an informal, inviting style: “I know we share a common language when it comes to understanding what interruptions look like, feel like, sound like, scare us like, bug us like.” She compares Jonah’s running with our tendencies to be irritated or angry when life doesn’t go the way we plan. She invites readers to see that the main character in Jonah’s life “is God. Every single chapter—in fact, every single verse— speaks of the grandeur of God, the grace of God, the sovereignty of God, the beckoning of God, the discipline of God. Everywhere you look . . . God is there . . . He is right in the middle of every interruption.”
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SPOTLIGHT Singer, songwriter, and Bible study teacher Kelly Minter’s The Fitting Room: Putting on the Character of Christ is an insightful look into Christian virtues—compassion, kindness, peace, forgiveness, humility, and joy—that Paul talks about in Colossians . What exactly are those virtues and how are we to put them on? She begins with the first part of Colossians :—“Therefore as God’s chosen people, holy, and dearly loved”—and teases out what those words mean and why understanding them is vital. Minter’s style is clear and personal, with examples drawn from her own life— which makes The Fitting Room a great book for young women. She explains her goal: “What I promise to give you is honesty, story, and my sincerest understanding of what Scripture has to say about clothing ourselves in the character of Christ.”
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R M, , gained theology degrees from Duke and Cambridge University and then created in the Trinity Forum Academy, which every year hosts a small group of recent college graduates who study applied Christian theology while trying to build community. In he became a fellow of the Heritage Foundation, where part of his task is to assess the future of small and local within a national culture committed to big. He has just completed his doctorate in theology from Oxford. Is strengthening marriage a church or state affair? Both church and nation-state. How should Christians do better? Christians should do a better job preparing the emerging generation for courtship, marriage, and sex. We should be able to talk about these things candidly in the body of Christ. Sadly, in many churches today the larger culture exercises more influence in shaping sexual and familial norms among young people. The next generation is approaching serious physical relationships misinformed about romance, love, and finding Mr. or Ms. Right. Christians need to shape better expectations about what the adventure of marriage actually looks like. Why should the national government have a position on marriage? Marriage and divorce are not solely private issues. They affect the common good of society, and the
public cost of family breakdown is astounding. Social science research shows that healthy marriages benefit all persons, and especially women and children, in many dimensions of well-being. If the nation-state has a legitimate interest in things like good education, physically healthy citizens, and avoiding child poverty, then the nation-state has a legitimate interest in promoting marriage because marriage is the context in which education, physical health, and financial prosperity tend to flourish. What should be done? We can at least stop penalizing people financially when they get married. This happens when our tax code requires a married couple to pay more than an unmarried cohabiting couple earning the same amount. Obamacare, for example, allows cohabiting couples without employer-sponsored health insurance to receive a higher number of subsidies for healthcare than their married counterparts. Other government welfare programs like food stamps and Medicaid reduce eligibility and benefits for those who tie the knot. Some politicians talk a lot about how “we” need to tackle social problems like family breakdown together. A striking phrase to me in the last presidential campaign was, “We are all in this together,” but it’s important to ask who was being referred to by the “we.” What’s your take on that? When Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton used that phrase in , they seemed to JUNE 18, 2011
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mean a national family organized around government with the president as the figurehead, the father. That’s very dangerous language. What’s a better way to discuss this? One alternative would have been George Herbert Walker Bush’s language— we are a nation of communities. We are the , and there’s a lot to be proud of about this single political entity, but one of the reasons that we love America is that it provides room for other social institutions and forms of community—like families and churches—to exercise moral authority. That’s a good concept for Christians . . . Yes . . . it allows our ultimate authority to be Jesus Christ, while recognizing that we can give proper, rightly ordered allegiance to our president, our mayors, to our school board. What would you like to see done on the state government level? State governments need to evaluate whether their welfare rules and regulations encourage or discourage marriage. By threatening to revoke government benefits, many welfare programs discourage single mothers from marrying the employed fathers of their children. Discouraging men and women from enjoying the financial and emotional supports of marriage in order to keep a monthly government check not only hurts these impoverished adults, but adversely affects their children, who are more likely to continue the cycle of poverty for another generation. And local governments? They could draw attention to the importance of marriage in fighting poverty and improving education. Targeting teens and residents of low-income communities especially, local officials could promote public awareness campaigns and other efforts to reaffirm the importance of the family for healthy neighborhoods.
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What are the best examples you’ve seen of civil society institutions lowering the divorce rate? One example is an effort to bring pastors in the same town together in agreement about a minimum level of premarital counseling they will require of couples asking to be married in their churches. This prevents couples who don’t want to bother with it from being able to go “down the street” to find another pastor with looser counseling requirements. Many young Christians have told me that they wish there were more “transparency” among members of the older generation. How should churches encourage the long-term married to talk frankly about the ups and downs of marriage? Some churches partner recently engaged couples with married couples in the congregation and encourage them to share meals and spend time together in other ways. This provides a context in which engaged couples can ask honest questions about marriage and parenting. They also can learn a lot just by observing the daily rhythms and challenges of married household life with an eye toward their own future. A
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But Mormons aren’t all that’s in the musical’s crosshairs. There’s also, for instance, Uganda and whatever other countries practice “female circumcision.” There are also side digs at pop culture (Steven Spielberg’s Return of the Jedi gets compared to the “third testament” that the actual Book of Mormon claims to be) and religion in general. In this respect, at least, the Broadway Book of Mormon serves the edifying purpose of reminding those who adhere to any transcendental creed, no matter how empirically verifiable, that their beliefs sound cockamamie to anyone who doesn’t share them. For the most part, though, it’s just plain funny. Its offensiveness, in other words, works as a kind of Trojan Horse. Our capacity to be offended is sometimes a form of pride, and so rolling with the punches of sarcastic outsiders can be a form of turning the other cheek—especially when those punches reveal a witty familiarity with the religion in question that could only arise from a close study of its primary sources. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, painstakingly accurate mockery must surely be next in line.
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Y ’ a nonMormon or a fan of South Park to laugh in spite of yourself at the Original Broadway Cast recording of the soundtrack to the current Broadway smash The Book of Mormon (Ghostlight), but being at least one of those will probably help. The musical, which traces the experiences of two Mormon missionaries as they wrestle with doubts about their religion’s weirder teachings and deal with their assignment to the ridden African country of Uganda, was conceived and executed by South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker. So, not surprisingly, being a fan of their television work is a prerequisite for tolerating the gratuitous profanity and crude sexual humor that proliferate in “Hasa Diga Eebowai” and “Joseph Smith American Moses,” songs that, like South Park itself, blur then cross the line between Swiftian satire and gratuitous muck. As for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it’s the musical’s main target. So devout Mormons will surely wince at everything but the musical’s universal elements.
Thus Stone and Parker’s referring to the musical as an “atheist’s love letter to religion” rings truer than it might have had John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman made similar claims for Monty Python’s Life of Brian years ago. In light of recent events, one can’t help wondering what fun Stone and Parker will have should they decide to set Harold Camping’s recent eschatological follies to music. Or help wishing them Godspeed in the enterprise. Not to be outdone in the religiousmusical sweepstakes, the Indelicates, a British rock band led by Simon Clayton and Julia Clark-Lowes, offer up David Koresh Superstar (Corporate). Just why, years after the expiration of David Koresh’s minutes of notoriety, they felt compelled to devote minutes to the Wacko of Waco is anyone’s guess; that they get to the core of cult and conspiracy-theory mentality (the song “McVeigh” refers not only to the Oklahoma bombing but also to Ruby Ridge and the New World Order) is undeniable. But, unlike The Book of Mormon, David Koresh Superstar is not a comedy. Indeed, the Clark-Lowes-sung “A Single Thrown Grenade” followed by the Clayton-sung “I Don’t Care If It’s True” arrestingly articulate megalomania and its discontents at their most sadly poignant. In short, the Indelicates don’t so much seek to mock as to understand. The extent to which they succeed is chilling. A Email: aorteza@worldmag.com
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Strange Negotiations David Bazan For most of this album, the world’s most famous disgruntled ex- musician (unless Katy Perry counts) sounds more determined than ever to work out his damnation with fear and trembling. But he doesn’t sound all that happy about the process. The music drags, and he still protesteth too much (swearing, profanity, album-cover nudity). In the title track, however, he gets, and stays, in touch with his inner prodigal son. And in the next song, he comes, or maybe just admits that he has never really left, home.
McLemore Avenue Booker T. & the MGs In , nine months after “Time Is Tight” had returned them to the top for the first time since “Green Onions” eight years earlier, Booker T. & the MGs upped their already none-too-shabby game by recording a soul-instrumental version of the Beatles’ Abbey Road Road. What resulted was a tribute all right, but not just to the Beatles. Playing the music as three lengthy medleys and “Something,” the interracial quartet broke boundaries. Where it ended up still has folks relishing fantasies of what its Half-White Album might’ve sounded like.
In the Cool of the Day Daniel Martin Moore If a reflective, acoustic traditional-gospel album is the last thing a young singer-songwriter on Seattle’s venerable indie-rock Sub Pop label is supposed to foist upon the world, Daniel Martin Moore seems not to have gotten the memo. Other than changing “O sinner” to “O children” in “Softly and Tenderly,” he takes no distracting liberties. In fact, the occasional jaunty arrangement aside, he hardly takes any liberties at all. He does, however, contribute three originals. And, unless you read the credits, you won’t know which ones they are.
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SPOTLIGHT At a time when buys about four tanks of gas, even diehard Rolling Stones fans will no doubt put buying the band’s latest coffeetable compilation, The Singles: - (Universal), on the back burner. Besides being pricey, the set packages the singles discretely, replicating their original seven or -inch formats, so enjoying them more than one disc at a time takes work. Anyway, the thrifty will ask, aren’t many of the tracks just B-side live versions of the band’s ’s hits or remixes (albeit imaginatively trippy ones) of its relatively negligible mid-’s-andbeyond output? Yes. But listen to all dozen-plus hours straight through and something like a deconstruction of the history of rock ’n’ roll unfolds. Granted, it’s not the Greatest Story Ever Told, and the remixes do get redundant. But, if seven mixes of “Saint of Me” are necessary to make Mick Jagger’s apparently sincere daring of God to save him a part of the Stones’ permanent record, so be it.
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between my house and the neighbor’s we have poison ivy. Not a few sprigs or even a cluster, but poison ivy running beneath the maples and poplars as far as the eye can see. Lest anyone doubt how potent is my poison thicket, allow me: Poison ivy and its cousins, poison oak and poison sumac, produce an oily allergen called urushiol. From the Japanese word urushi, the word is for sap that makes lacquer. Hard stuff. It takes only one billionth of a gram of urushiol produced via the leaves to cause a rash. I have enough to plague an army. Among Americans about percent of us will be allergic to poison ivy at one time or another, and no one is forever immune, say the experts. In fact, the more you’re exposed to poison ivy, the more likely you are to develop the rash. So on a warm Saturday with no wind I headed to the thicket, fully cloaked and armed with a name-brand, expert-recommended herbicide. I sprayed with determination, saw vines also twisting up trees and decided I could risk the trees so I sprayed those too (I realize I will get mail about this). Two realizations quickly surfaced. One, I knew as I launched this chemical weapon I could be killing treasured plants. Sprouting in those damp woods are rare jack-in-the-pulpits and blackberry vines we will miss come cobbler season. Two, I could not be certain I was finishing the job without stepping into the poisoned thicket. Until I stood in the middle of it, surrounded, immersed, I couldn’t really measure its size, or know whether I’d reached all of it.
us—whether it’s finding a solution toward peace in the Middle East (p. ) or doing battle with gay activist groups (p. ). We may not even know when we live in a food desert (p. ). So we chip away at half-hearted solutions, grow cynical, ask overarching questions with no apparent answer: Will Egypt become a radical Islamic state? How can the United States side with rare democrats in a thicket of poisonous elements? Has the housing market bottomed out? Can the U.S. economy outlast the federal debt crisis? And then we fire our salvos—real or rhetorical, helpful or hurtful—hopefully from a safe distance. My parable of poison ivy is a poor projection on the work of Jesus: He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. But there is a way in this life to follow Him, if not into the heart of the grief and affliction—the poison—He took on, then at least as far as He has made us to go—and as He goes before us we may follow lustily. That’s one reason we are eager to begin our sixth annual series on effective compassion—so that you can meet people like Wally Bryan, who traded his home in a nice Kentucky neighborhood for a roach-infested apartment in a poor area where he can help “fix up the people.” It’s why we bring reports of hope from Haiti (p. ), and even Missouri’s tornado zone. We cannot be Jesus but we might be Jacob. He wrestled the angel of God all night and by morning went “limping because of his hip,” according to Genesis. Yet in the face of struggle Jacob could say, “I have seen the face of God, and yet my life has been saved.” Or as Rilke continues in his poem, “Whoever was beaten by this Angel . . . went away proud and strengthened and great from that harsh hand, that kneaded him as if to change his shape.” Who in this life, I ask you, isn’t desperate to change his shape? A
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presidential contenders in December . Fast-forward four years to December : Potential presidential aspirants were not announcing their intentions. In January, February, March, and April , candidates were eyeing other candidates but not making official announcements. The race resembled a Tour de France peloton—the French word for the main group of bicyclists—in which riders save energy by “slipstreaming,” riding just behind others in a way that cuts down wind resistance. A presidential campaign is also like the Tour de France—which begins this year on July —in that it’s run in stages: daily in France, longer segments in our political Tour d’America. We’re now in the first stage, with early polls merely measuring name recognition, so reporters look hard at backgrounds and character
issues. Subsequent stages focus on straw polls, debates, caucuses, and primaries. One other bicycling comparison: Cyclists have to decide when to leave the peloton and try a breakaway. Too late and someone else may gain a big lead. Too soon and the winds may smack the racer and sap his energy. Four years ago breakaway attempts came early. This year, the first major figure to attempt a breakaway was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who turns on June . On May Gingrich officially announced his candidacy and started peddling fast, with his typical boldness, by calling the House Republican budget plan “right-wing social engineering.” He tried to break from the pack and also from his past, but the political winds smacked him hard and he was soon back in the peloton, as our illustration shows him. Let’s take a closer look. Continued on next page >>>
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Questions about the past: Did Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich have secret meetings prior to Clinton’s impeachment hearings? How wide was the knowledge of Gingrich’s extramarital affair? Two Democratic congressmen tell that they knew, but did Clinton know? Did Clinton’s knowledge affect Gingrich’s actions? The question for the present: What does Gingrich’s conduct then, and the way he has dealt with it, tell us about him today? by MARVIN OLASKY - photograph by STEPHEN VOSS/REDUX
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THREE’S A CROWD: Gingrich and his first wife Jackie (second from right) celebrate his first election to Congress in ; Gingrich and his second wife Marianne in ; Gingrich and Callista on April , .
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S H N G has long been seen as a person more suited to punditry than the presidency. (See “Don’t run, Newt,” April , .) Successful columnists go wild with big ideas—as Gingrich has—but a president has to be extraordinarily careful in what he says and what he does. He does not have to be the idea creator himself but must be a good judge of the ideas of others. Gingrich says he has changed and become more self-disciplined, but since he has been out of public office for years he hasn’t had the opportunity to show the New Newt. Other questions about Gingrich stem from his marital history: He twice dumped wives while they were ill and married much younger women with whom he had been committing adultery. Gingrich was at the time of his last divorce. But Gingrich says he has also changed spiritually and is now a serious Catholic. He is appealing to Christian voters by campaigning at events put on by groups like the Minnesota Family Council, where—as wife Callista recounted—“we screened our documentary film, Rediscovering God in America, and Newt gave a speech about reconnecting faith, family, and freedom in America.” Gingrich said on the Christian Broadcasting Network, “Things happened in my life that were not appropriate. . . . I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness.” What about the forgiveness of political allies whose trust they say he betrayed? Last month eight of Gingrich’s former House colleagues told me in hours of telephone conversations that Gingrich hasn’t sought it. As former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., put it, “I do not recall Newt ever apologizing to the caucus about his affair. It is one of the gaping holes in the story. . . . It is almost unforgivable and a real weakness of leadership when you jeopardize your followers. . . . Why should those who followed him in follow him now? Will he put his followers at risk again?” My interviewing was part of an attempt to reexamine an extraordinary statement by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Gingrich’s chief lieutenant from through . In the course of a long interview last fall, he told me that President Bill Clinton “found out about the Gingrich affair and called Newt over to the White House for a private meeting between the two of them.” Armey argued that Clinton pressured Gingrich to go easy on that year’s impeachment drive “or I’ll start telling your story.” He claimed the two leaders “had many meetings that we didn’t know about where they’d drink wine and smoke cigars and talk about their girlfriends.” When Gingrich’s press secretary complained about Armey’s statement, I told him would be glad to print a rebuttal. The Gingrich aide didn’t pursue it, and at the time it didn’t seem important to probe any further the character of Newt Gingrich, private citizen. All that changed when Gingrich announced his campaign for the presidency
on May . Armey said the story originated with a Gingrich confidante or Republican leader from the s, but he could not remember which one. Interviews with former congressmen Tom DeLay, Bob Livingston, Bob Dornan, and many other generals and sergeants turned up no one willing to acknowledge that role. Gingrich in an email to me insisted, “I never discussed my personal life with Clinton.” Gingrich did partially clear up one mystery: University of Oklahoma historian Steve Gillon, who documented in The Pact () several semi-private meetings to discuss Social Security that Clinton and Gingrich had with their chiefs of staff present, told me that Gingrich had once mentioned a
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private session with Clinton at the White House where he drank Irish whiskey. When Gillon during that and subsequent interviews asked for details, Gingrich clammed up. This time, though, Gingrich admitted via email that they occurred: “The private sessions with Clinton were about the future.” A Gingrich ally told me the former speaker had told him there were two such meetings. In the absence of testimony from either Bill Clinton or someone who heard from Gingrich directly an account of these secret meetings, Armey’s story is unconfirmable. His overall point, though, was that Gingrich had been extraordinarily reckless and had left himself open to pressure that the White House was willing to use. Such conduct, he suggested, means that Gingrich’s candidacy is not worthy of support. One overlooked part of the story is that when Gingrich’s affair began, in , it was morally wrong but—politically— BILL AND NEWT: A December budget meeting.
perhaps not as astoundingly reckless as it now appears. Gingrich then was House minority whip, but Republicans hadn’t had a House majority for nearly four decades and almost no one expected them to have one anytime soon. Senior Democrat Wilbur Mills two decades before, and presidential candidate Gary Hart a decade earlier, had fallen politically through sex scandals, but minority whips did not get that much public attention. Gingrich met Callista Bisek at a fundraiser for his friend, Rep. Steve Gunderson: Bisek and Gunderson came from the same town in Wisconsin, and he had hired her for his staff. Gingrich’s second wife Marianne was rarely in Washington. The last six of their years of marriage had been rocky. She knew him too well to idolize him. Now a cute -year-old Midwesterner did. Suddenly, in November , with the surprising success in the congressional elections, Gingrich became for a short time the mostwatched man in American politics. During that short time he may have ceased his adultery: A team of television journalists caught wind of his conduct and staked out his Capitol Hill apartment for a week, without success. But that self-control was apparently short-lived. Security guards later told Armey that Bisek came to Gingrich’s apartment building so often they thought she lived there. So much for the personal story, but many s leaders still wonder whether Gingrich’s private conduct affected the way he carried out his public responsibilities. They replied—some on the record, some on background—to three questions of mine with facts and theories: First, did President Clinton know about Gingrich’s affair? Second, if Clinton knew, why wouldn’t he have arranged for this information about a political enemy to go public, or used it privately to pressure Gingrich? Third, did Gingrich’s actions at some point indicate that he was pulling punches to preserve his reputation? Then comes the question that moves from past to urgent present, now that he is running third in the early presidential candidate polls: Who do you think Newt Gingrich is now?
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If Clinton had this information about Gingrich, why wouldn’t he have arranged to have someone on his team leak it to a reporter in a way that would get the news out without White House fingerprints on it? Why wouldn’t Carville & Co. have used it in when Bill Clinton’s presidency was
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Gunderson resigned his leadership position in , decrying what he called the Republican move to the “hard-right.” He retired from Congress in . By then Gunderson was open about his homosexuality, and that created tensions. Gunderson had problems to the right—Dornan was his particular nemesis—and on the left, as Barney Frank, D-Mass., criticized Gunderson’s ties to Gingrich and other conservatives: “He’s helping people who are very anti-gay to appear a little less nasty.” Dornan says he confronted Gingrich once in late or early in a Fox green room and told him, “Newt, you know that Steve Gunderson was telling Barney Frank everything about Callista. They were jerking your chain.” Dornan says Gingrich responded, “Well, I always thought they knew.” Dornan says the transmission chain was Gunderson to Democrats and onward to Clinton. Frank said he heard about the affair in but did not tell anyone. Gunderson did not respond to my request for comment. Other former congressmen thought the Gunderson scenario made sense, but Armey thinks it’s more likely that transmission came through the Agriculture Committee staff, where Bisek worked and Democrats and Republicans worked together closely to promote their interests: “If anyone on the Ag staff knew, the Democrats would know about it.” Democrat Anthony speculates that news would have flowed to the White House through the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Whatever the conduit, all the sources for this part of the story agreed that once Gingrich became speaker, those most committed to studying his activities would learn about his adultery.
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Did Clinton know? One possible source of information was Beryl Anthony, D-Ark. The brother-in-law of Vince Foster, the Clinton confidante who committed suicide in , Anthony is now a retiree who spends part of the year in western North Carolina. He told me that in , “I called the press and told them there was a story that they should pursue.” But Anthony denies having told anyone in the White House. Journalists who for various reasons did not pursue the Gingrich rumors were another possible conduit. David Corn, then Washington editor for the left-wing magazine The Nation, has mourned “The Big One That Got Away.” Corn had heard about Gingrich’s affair but did not keep poking around. The one hint in a major newspaper or magazine came in a Vanity Fair article by Gail Sheehy, who wrote that Gingrich had “female admirers” including “Callista Bisek, a former aide in Congressman Steve Gunderson’s office who has been a favorite breakfast companion.” By , the porn magazine Hustler also was aware of the affair, according to publisher Larry Flynt’s later account. Once the affair became public in , residents of Whitehall, Wis., the hometown of Rep. Gunderson and Bisek, said rumors of the affair had long swirled around. (New “’ York Post headline, “ ’ ’ .”) One likely conduit—according to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., former Rep. Bob Dornan, R-Calif., and others—was Rep. Gunderson, who now runs an association for charitable foundations. As a congressman, Gunderson hired Bisek and helped her move to the Agriculture Committee staff where she served as an assistant clerk. Frank told me regarding Gingrich’s affair that “Gunderson knew about it. He was complicit.” In , when House Minority Whip Dick Cheney became secretary of defense, Gunderson managed Gingrich’s campaign to succeed Cheney. Gingrich won to and Gunderson became chief deputy minority whip.
and/or ultimatums—or participated in any other activity that could even remotely be viewed as blackmail or extortion.” Some doubt that account, and doubt also the view that the best bet for Clintonites was a middle ground between exposing Gingrich and ignoring his affair: Subtly indicating that they knew, with Gingrich’s knowledge of their knowledge serving as some restraint on his conduct. James Rogan, a thoughtful member of the House Judiciary Committee then, and now a California Superior Court judge, thinks that theory gives the Clinton administration too much credit: Some might think the White House “had a cruise missile that could have taken out the command and control center of their enemy,” but “when I was in D.C. the Clintons knew only one kind of warfare—bare knuckles.” Maybe, but Salon.com often served as a Clinton mouthpiece, so three stories in August are worth noting. The first, on Aug. , noted rumors concerning Gingrich but argued that Clinton should “forswear the kind of nastiness they have deployed against him. To respond in kind would do further harm to the nation without helping him.” The second possible warning shot, on Aug. , reported a potential Clinton administration plan to expose sexual improprieties (with Newt Gingrich the first person named as “under scrutiny”) and quoted one “close ally of the president” saying, “We’re talking about the Doomsday Machine here. Once the Doomsday Machine is set in motion, there will be no stopping it.” The third Salon.com story, on Aug. , reported that “Newt Gingrich did a strange thing this week: He restrained himself. . . . Newt is subdued, his criticism of Clinton muted. . . . It’s tempting to congratulate Gingrich for his understanding of human frailty, but don’t mistake his comments for Christian charity. . . . It’s not compassion that tempers the speaker’s censure of Clinton’s self-destructive sexual compulsions. It’s self-protection. Gingrich, lest we forget, has a closet full of sexual misconduct. . . . Gingrich is wise to remain hesitant to resume his once obligatory role of attack dog. Better that he growl harmlessly, while staying securely on his leash.”
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hanging by a thread that Republicans were eager to cut? That year the extramarital histories of Henry Hyde, R-Ill., and Bob Livingston, R-La., became public. Why not Gingrich’s? One argument is that outing Gingrich was logically inconsistent and politically unnecessary. The Clinton position all along was that his sexual activities were no big deal, so making a big deal of someone else’s would seem hypocritical. Given Frank’s knowledge, it’s significant that Salon.com quoted him in August as opposing the tactic of bringing up sexual affairs because Clinton would “win the fight without it, and it looks nasty; it looks as if you have no defense. It becomes a mutual suicide.” Another reason is that Clinton involvement in outing others could increase impeachment hazards. Clinton’s many supporters argued that the president’s perjury was of the garden-variety, self-protective kind seen ever since Eden, not a high crime and misdemeanor. Using executive branch resources to blackmail the highest-ranking member of the House, though, was a different matter that—if it could be traced to the White House—might lead to the impeachment and conviction that Clinton was desperately trying to prevent. Hustler investigator Dan Moldea, who dug up dirt on Hyde, Livingston, and others, said he knew he “might be called to testify, somewhere or someplace. Consequently, I was extremely careful about whom I did and did not contact. Neither Flynt nor I even considered any communication with anyone at the White House. And the White House never attempted to contact us. . . . No member of our team ever approached any of our targets and posed any threats
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1998
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Gingrich, no longer in Congress, announces he is suing for divorce, and his affair becomes public.
2000
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2011
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Was Gingrich on a leash? Gingrich vigorously denied that in emails to me: “There is no example in my career of my backing down out of fear over anything. . . . My father spent years as an infantryman. One of my closest friends is an year in Vietnam. It would be impossible to blackmail me.” For evidence to support his contention that he did not back down in his battles with Bill Clinton, Gingrich pointed to Gillon’s The Pact—but that solid historical work does not provide much of a defense. Gillon writes that in Gingrich “went from blasting Clinton in April for being the most corrupt president in history to giving him a free pass in August”—the month that those Salon.com warnings emerged. Gillon refers to Gingrich as “uncharacteristically uncertain” and sending “mixed signals.” He suggests that Gingrich in criticizing Clinton “must have realized that he was vulnerable to similar charges.” He reports that conservatives felt Gingrich “had gone soft on the president.” One of Gillon’s sentences is particularly memorable: “While listening to a Republican debate about censure, Gingrich stuffed his tie in his mouth and bit it—a sign of his frustration at keeping silent on an issue about which he felt so strongly.” Gingrich also suggested a look at press coverage. That also does not help his case. Reporters who followed Gingrich were surprised to see him, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution put it in September , “publicly urging caution and forgoing by the dozen opportunities to speak out.” Many other journalists were also surprised, as were numerous Republican leaders and Marianne Gingrich herself. Gingrich’s third suggestion, to look at the work of James Rogan, did provide support to his contentions, because Rogan has just published a detailed and well-written memoir of the Clinton impeachment process, Catching Our
become overcome immediately” by Gingrich dropping out Flag. Although Rogan does show of proceedings completely, “but he stayed involved. He kept Gingrich blowing hot and cold, he putting up roadblocks.” explains that Gingrich hung back at the request of other Republicans, who This investigation started with Dick Armey’s saw Henry Hyde as a better face for the contention about Gingrich’s meetings with House on this issue. Furthermore, Clinton. Gingrich insists there was no Rogan repeatedly reminded Gingrich blackmail, and my sense is that he’s telling that he should lie low because of a the truth—but knowing blackmail is possible constitutional conflict of interest: plays on a man’s mind. Based on all the interviews, it’s clear Should Clinton leave office and be that Gingrich had secret meetings with Clinton and that replaced by Vice President Al Gore, the speaker of the House Democratic Congressmen Beryl was next in line of succession. Anthony and Barney Frank knew Rogan argues that a Gingrich about Gingrich’s affair. It seems facing White House pressure highly likely that the White House “would have behaved far differknew about the affair and that ently than he did in my presence,” Gingrich suspected Clinton knew. but other congressmen who It seems likely that this concern interacted with Gingrich smelled a The nation should be grateful to Gingrich for affected his conduct in some way. rat. Tom DeLay, for example, said, his role in promoting historic welfare reform One other aspect is clear: “Newt Gingrich’s heart was not in in and . He has my personal Gingrich’s affair contributed the impeachment. You could tell gratitude for publicizing a book I wrote on powerfully to the conclusion that he was against everything poverty-fighting. Gingrich has recently been reached by many Americans that that was going on.” Dornan claims ridiculed for saying that as speaker he was the was a party of moral that Gingrich at one point ordered so passionate about changing the country hypocrites who talked about Hyde to “wrap up this investigathat he “worked far too hard” and let other family values but did not practice tion or I’m taking it away from passions get the best of him. But one night in them. He hurt not only his wife but you,” with the result that the case , close to midnight, we were talking in a the “Republican revolution” and moved forward without adequate Washington restaurant. He seemed the followers who trusted him. He preparation: “Gingrich had cut exhausted and I asked how to pray for him. cannot succeed now by referring to Henry Hyde’s legs off.” He said, “You know, the physical things.” It the harm he did in an offhand way. Hyde died in . His friend seemed he was referring to his -hour days. If Gingrich wants to show that he David Schippers, whom Hyde Maybe he was referring to something else. has changed, he needs to review hired to be chief investigative The press meme in recent weeks has what he did in greater depth and council for the impeachment been that Gingrich is not as smart as many tell the whole story. He won’t win inquiry, is still angry at Gingrich thought. Here’s a disagreement: On coming by showing himself as a master of for, he says, “pulling the plug on up with brilliant ideas he leads the public policy. He needs to show an everything” except the Lewinsky presidential peloton. But the physical things, understanding that honesty is the matter. Clinton committed a wide and in particular the heart things, cannot be best policy. He needs to show that variety of impeachable offenses, separated from the brain. In I wrote a he has mastered himself. Schippers told me, but Gingrich history book that profiled American What now? Former Rep. and Minority Leader Dick leaders and concluded that unfaithfulness in Hoekstra’s view is mine as well: Gephardt, D-Mo., merely marriage was often a leading indicator of “Newt is a person I am conflicted “released all the sexual stuff. That unfaithfulness to the country. I couldn’t about. I like him. He is very smart. killed us.” Schippers, a Chicago overlook the questions about Gingrich. That But he appears to have an ‘I comDemocrat, says Republican many of Gingrich’s views are mine as well plex’ (similar to Obama) that may Judiciary Committee members does not allow me to ignore his record. be a fatal character flaw if he hasn’t were “ percent Yankee Doodle This doesn’t mean we should hiss addressed it. We all make mistakes. Dandy Americans. The sellout Gingrich now. Even the apostle Paul wrote We should all learn and change came from the leadership.” about his own ongoing struggle with sin. from them. That’s the question that With other parts of the This means that we cannot choose sinless needs to be answered about Newt.” investigation sidelined, Schippers political leaders—they don’t exist. All face Has he changed? One congressays, the Clinton forces could enormous temptation and have great sional ally of his during the s plausibly claim “it’s all about sex.” opportunity to sin. All will fail, maybe not says, “I don’t know. He’s struggling.” Schippers argued that the committing adultery but disappointing us in As are many—but they’re not all constitutional conflict of interest some way. That’s why we need to look for running for president. A problem Rogan cites “could have leaders who not only vote the right way and say the right things but see themselves as sinners relying on grace. Leaders of that kind are more likely to avoid self-righteousness, accept criticism, and learn from errors. —M.O. J U N E 1 8 , 2 0 1 1 W O R L D
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WHEN DIEUSEUL SAINT-ANGE’S MOTHER contemplated a name for her fourth child, the Haitian woman in a rural town thought about her first three babies: None had survived. Before giving birth again, the young mother experienced her own rebirth: She converted to Christianity, along with her husband. The new Christian understood that the life of her unborn son depended on God’s protection alone. When he was born, she called the healthy child “Dieuseul”—a name that means “God only.” Twenty-nine years later, the baby from a village in Haiti’s central plateau is a man sitting in a student lounge at Liberty University, a Christian college in Lynchburg, Va. His journey— and his graduation on May —is a story of hard work by the student, his parents, Haitian pastors, missionaries, and teachers. But when Saint-Ange leans back in an oversized chair and contemplates how he got here from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, two words come quickly: “God only.” Saint-Ange was one of six Haitian students sitting around a mahogany table in Liberty’s visitor’s center less than a week before graduation, discussing summer plans and job opportunities. Seventeen Haitians studied at the university this year, but the six students at this table had something else in common: They’ve all pledged to return to Haiti. That’s a notable promise for students earning marketable degrees in areas like information technology, computer engineering, and nursing. But it’s the non-negotiable aim of a program led by two American missionaries who spent nearly years in Haiti and now serve Haitian students at Liberty. Wallace and Eleanor Turnbull—the energetic, elderly couple at the head of the table—aren’t interested in finding more Americans to work in Haiti. They believe the best help for the country comes from within: well-educated, Haitian Christians leading their own country by example. ALONG THE WINDING ROADS north of Port-au-Prince, the signs of the Turnbulls’ six-decade ministry are carved into the sides of the cool, green mountains: Crops grow on the hillsides in terraced rows—a technique that Mr. Turnbull helped introduce to poverty-stricken locals fighting soil erosion in the s. A prominent sign around a nearby bend in the town of Fermathe identifies the ministry that the Turnbulls spent decades developing: Baptist Haiti Mission (). The ministry aims to train local pastors to lead churches themselves and train local residents to become self-sustaining through projects like agriculture and marketable handicrafts. On a crisp afternoon at , a greenhouse brimming with tree saplings and a store full of handmade crafts and furniture near the mission’s entrance showed the fruit of teaching practical skills. Down a small hill, a -bed hospital that serves locals evolved from the Turnbulls’ helping to introduce basic healthcare to the area. (The once-remote area is now more developed, but the mission didn’t have phone service until . By , the hospital served as a critical medical center for disaster-struck Port-au-Prince after the country’s massive earthquake.) But the Turnbulls say the most important part of their work lies in the hills around the mission: hundreds of churches led by Haitian pastors. Mr. Turnbull says three locals attended the mission’s first church service in . Today, the mission reports that thousands of church members attend some churches established by local pastors across the region. Rob Baker—a former Michigan pastor who now NO PLACE LIKE HOME: directs the mission in Fermathe—says he’s grateful The terraced countryside for good projects that help Haitians in practical near Fermathe, Haiti. TERRACES: KYRK BAKER/BAPTIST HAITI MISSION SAINT-ANGE: ROY M. BURROUGHS/GENESIS
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civil engineering, medicine, and mechanics. “That’s why I am so sold on this program,” she says. “One child at a time, you could change a country.”
the desire to change haiti drove Saint-Ange—the recent Liberty graduate—to college in America. With limited educational opportunities in Haiti, Saint-Ange pursued a scholarship program that the Turnbulls founded after returning to the United States in 2004. An arrangement between the Turnbulls’ private foundation and scholarship funds from Liberty covered the costs for Saint-Ange—and the other students in the program—to study at the school. (As many as eight students participate in the program at one time, and they must pass an English test when applying for admission.) The students come from local churches in Haiti and promise to return when they graduate. (They also return home during summer breaks.) While many international students stay in the United States after graduating from college, Mr. Turnbull says Haiti desperately needs educated citizens who can serve the country: “Haiti has plenty of pastors but too few educated lay leaders who understand ethics, responsibility, and accountability.” Saint-Ange agrees, and he plans to take his understanding of information technology back to Hinche, his small hometown in central Haiti. The graduate says he most enjoys database management and networking—areas that need massive improvement in a country with fledgling
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ways, including the projects at BHM, but he says good churches with sound, biblical teaching are foundational to lasting change in the country: “We recognize it’s got to start with the church.” Starting with the church meant overcoming a substantial problem when the Turnbulls began working with rural pastors in the 1940s: Like most of the locals in the region at the time, most of the pastors couldn’t read. Without a change, future church leaders would be illiterate, too. Mr. Turnbull organized the area’s first primary school in 1948, and Mrs. Turnbull remembers: “Wallace told everyone that the child of God should read the Bible, His word for them.” Over the years, former students eventually sent their own children to school, raising the literacy rate in the region. Some sent their children to secondary schools, and some have managed to attend college. Today, the mission serves some 65,000 students across the country at more than 300 schools connected with local churches. The mission serves the local churches by providing training for pastors, including a summer training institute in Fermathe. Elsa Peterson—a BHM worker—coordinates a sponsorship program that connects overseas sponsors with children in the local schools to help with the costs of education. In the living room of her Fermathe home, Peterson lists a handful of careers that students from the schools have pursued:
“ONE CHILD AT A TIME”: Wallace and Eleanor Turnbull celebrate with Saint-Ange and other graduates.
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at the Fermathe campus in January: The doctor moved from bed to bed, speaking in Creole with ailing patients and worried family members. Bernard noted that many patients come to the hospital from rural areas and have little health knowledge. That means they often wait until their condition is critical before making the trek for help. For example: In an open-room ward, a limp, 9-year-old girl lies on a bed, surrounded by family members. She barely moves except for occasionally fluttering glassy eyes that don’t focus. A tube running from her nose drains yellow fluid into a silver pail on the bed. A large bandage across her abdomen reveals the problem: appendicitis. By the time the girl’s family brought her from her rural home in the surrounding mountains, she was suffering a high fever and her life was in danger. But an emergency surgery saved her life, and by the next morning the child was stirring in her bed and locking eyes with her mother. Bernard talks with patients who rarely see a doctor about the importance of seeking care for serious symptoms, and helps parents understand how to monitor children’s health. He says Haitian physicians have a distinct advantage, and he works hard to train local doctors and nurses. (Bernard’s three children all work as doctors in Haiti.) “I know the area very well,” he says. “I know the people also.” Brevil—who worked with cardinye brevil hopes to be on that Bernard during her summer list, too. The nursing student from Fermathe internship—says she hopes to is in the Turnbulls’ scholarship program educate Haitians on nutriand is set to graduate from Liberty in tional issues that could December. She’s already spent a summer improve their health. She working at the BHM hospital, learning from says in the countryside some Haitian nurses and doctors. Haitians grow vegetables but Brevil says that experience taught her sell them at market and buy the advantage of Haitian nurses treating —Cardinye Brevil unhealthy food. “They’re Haitian patients. “The problem [with forexchanging the good stuff for eign workers] isn’t just with translation,” bad,” she says. “They have she says. “It’s with the way people see problems they could prevent if they only knew how.” things. I think if they hear it from me—being a Haitian— Like other students in the program, Saint-Ange hopes they might be more open to it.” that he can help solve and prevent problems in Haiti when Jean Claude Bernard—a Haitian doctor who has worked he returns. He looks forward to reuniting with his family, at BHM for more than 35 years and oversees the hospital— friends, and church, and he’s eager to work with them: “I is grateful for visits by medical mission teams who help miss them, and I feel that if together we could create perform surgeries in specialized areas. But Bernard’s something for Haiti, it would be very, very good.” A Haitian advantage was obvious during late evening rounds
infrastructure, especially in rural areas: “We don’t have many people who have these skills.” When Saint-Ange arrived in Lynchburg in August 2006, his own skills were limited: He knew how to check email, surf the web, and use the basic functions of Microsoft Office. Two years later, he completed an internship with World Vision in Haiti, working with the Christian organization’s computer systems. “My goal was to figure out what Haiti needs most,” he says. Without the scholarship program and the Turnbulls’ mentoring, Saint-Ange says he doesn’t know how he would have studied in the United States. Financing would have been nearly impossible for his family: Saint-Ange’s parents work as meat sellers in a local market, and neither progressed beyond grammar school. But the Christian couple worked hard to make sure their children completed high school in a country where education isn’t free. Saint-Ange says his parents are proud of him, but he quickly adds: “I’m proud of them, too.” When he returns to Haiti later this year, Saint-Ange hopes to find a computer-based job in Hinche and serve in his local church. He says the development of local churches is crucial because education without morality is “even worse than having no knowledge.” “We need education, but I think what people need most is to be Godfearing,” he says. “That can bear fruit.” Saint-Ange hopes to bear fruit that will help his country progress, and he says staying in Haiti is a central part of that effort. “The more we have people leaving—especially people with knowledge—the worse it is for Haiti,” he says. “I’m very excited about someday having my name on the list of people who did something wonderful for Haiti.”
“i THink if THey Hear iT frOm me— Being a HaiTian— THey migHT Be mOre OPen TO iT.”
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Palestinian state? A look at the region’s maps, historical conflicts, and what was not included in the president’s speech helps explain the firestorm of protest over the president’s comment. In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition British-occupied Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jewish leaders accepted the plan even though they would not have a contiguous state, but the Arabs rejected it. Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria launched a full-scale war. Israel fought back and won, gaining some land in the process. Between 1948 and 1967, Egypt ruled over the Gaza strip and Jordan occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Jews had no access to the West Bank, not even to their holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City. These boundaries lacked security, as Netanyahu reminded Obama during their meeting on May 20. “Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide, half the width of the Washington beltway,” Netanyahu said, referencing the distance at one point from the Mediterranean to the West Bank. “And these were not the boundaries of peace, they were the boundar-
GOTTA BE AWKWARD: netanyahu meets with President Obama in the Oval Office May 20.
ies of repeated wars because the attack on Israel was so attractive.” Netanyahu’s reference to “boundaries” instead of “borders” is likely intentional. The 1949 armistice lines agreed upon by Israel and its neighbors (also called the Green Line because of the green pen used to mark these new boundaries during talks) were intended to be a temporary border. The boundaries changed again during the Six-Day War of 1967 when Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank (including Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. United Nations Resolution 242, passed just after that war, attempted to address these territorial gains by calling for a “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the
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recent conflict.” While this resolution is often used to support a complete withdrawal from the territories, history supports a more fluid approach. The Arab nations wanted the resolution to require a withdrawal from “all the territories,” but other countries would not go along with that. When asked to explain Britain’s intentions, Lord Caradon, the architect of the resolution, said, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June , because those positions were undesirable and artificial.” Also part of the resolution: a clause requiring a “termination of all claims or states of belligerency” from neighboring states. Israel completed its withdrawal from Sinai ( percent of its territorial gain) in . It evacuated the Gaza Strip in . The looming question now is how to create a Palestinian state in the noncontiguous territories of Gaza and the West Bank in such a way that guarantees Israel’s security and adequately addresses massive Israeli settlement building in the West Bank. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza led to a
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Hamas-ruled enclave a few years later, and Israelis fear the same could happen in the West Bank where Hamas and Fatah recently announced a powersharing agreement. T O appears to have pushed for the wrong course of action from a leader he continues to underestimate. Unlike prior administrations, the president made the borders a negotiation baseline for the peace process and failed to ask for equivalent concessions from the Palestinians (such as recognizing Israel’s right to exist or relinquishing refugee right of return). Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Obama’s speech “a disaster” and said the president was asking Israel “to commit suicide.”
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raise so much money through the Internet, more than anybody before him. And he frankly doesn’t, I believe, need any of my donations.” Saban said he would donate to Obama if asked, but wanted to emphasize contributions to Democratic attempts to retain Senate control and regain a majority in the House of Representatives. A few unnamed donors dropped out of a fundraiser—set for June at the Philadelphia home of Comcast executive David Cohen—over the issue, according to the Los Angeles Times. Former New York Mayor Ed Koch also said he might support a Republican in because of the president’s comments. Koch supported Obama in , but he isn’t a staunch Democrat— he endorsed President George W. Bush in , as well as other Republicans before him. —Emily Belz
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After President Obama’s May speech on the Middle East, Washington buzzed with speculation that he would lose key Jewish donors going into . Thus far, though, none of his prominent Jewish supporters from publicly said that they would withdraw support from him over his speech. One big name probably caused sweat to break out on Democratic brows: Billionaire Haim Saban, an Israeli-American who has given millions to Democrats, said he probably wouldn’t give to Obama in —but not because of the president’s comments about Israel. He told in regard to Obama, “As an Israeli-American, we’re all good, [but] Obama has raised so much money and will
Netanyahu’s charismatic speech to a joint session of Congress earned him more than standing ovations and an increase of percentage points in opinion polls back home. Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. Middle East negotiator under Democratic and Republican administrations, isn’t quite as alarmed by the comments. He believes Obama was merely trying to preempt the Palestinians from pursuing statehood recognition at the United Nations in September—a faulty plan, he added. “The issue is not whether this was pro- or anti-Israel. The issue is whether this was smart or dumb. And in my view it wasn’t smart.” The president clarified his remarks during his speech to on May , claiming that he wasn’t asking Israel to return to the borders and that negotiations would take into account “changes that have taken place over the last years,” but U.S. involvement in the peace process appears to be defunct at this juncture. “I think there’s very little we can do. There isn’t any way to get the Palestinians and the Israelis to the table,” Miller said. “They seem to be running in exactly the opposite direction. The Palestinians are running to New York and the Israelis seem to think they can get by without even a public relations program to address a significant problem: The rest of the world has a double standard when it comes to Israel.” A
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MaRRiage & ReLatiOnships, paRt tWO: In the midst of dating confusion and fairy-tale delusions, some churches are pointing to a better way by SuSan OlaSky Sunday morning, when official Washington is worshipping at the church of Fox News Sunday or Meet the Press, nearly 1,000 Christians—average age, 28—head to Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) in Washington, D.C. They are a transient group, drawn to the nation’s capital for school, politics, or military postings. Many are single. They have become part of a church that—from the pulpit, in Sunday school classes and small groups, through discipleship and shepherding—teaches singles, “Dating is not an individual endeavor; it’s a community affair.” Across the country, in Billings, Montana, Rocky Mountain Community Church (PCA) encourages couples to bring their relationships into the church. Associate pastor Jason Barrie says, “Let’s keep the relationship out in the light where you can rightly assess its merits.” Couples in love don’t always see clearly, so he encourages them to join small groups: “When we’re around other folks, then I’m seeing you as you really are.” In Billings, dating is also more than an individual endeavor. Two churches nearly 2,000 miles apart are among those trying to help in confusing times. Young marrieds find themselves unprepared for marriage. Singles are confused and frustrated over how to date or court. Sometimes the debate about “how to” overshadows a more important factor: Community—including family and church—has a vital role to play. It may seem like a no-brainer that churches need to be more involved in this crucial area, but interviews with singles and young marrieds show that many of them would appreciate more. Four tales from the front lines of confusion: Kim Collins, 33, works in Manhattan. She never expected to be single at her age. Occasionally family members or friends have set her up, but overall, “I don’t think anyone is trying to help.” What about the church? “It seems as though there isn’t much teaching about the importance of marriage. . . . Those of us who are single aren’t being encouraged to marry. It’s not a topic of conversation.” Dana Hui and her husband, both students at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, are first-generation Christians who want to learn from older Christian couples: Hui says, “We were in deep trouble without help because we did not understand how severe some of our problems were.” Seminary classes and books have been helpful, “but couples still need a counselor or another older couple to model for them what a godly marriage looks like and how a mature person behaves within a marriage.” Courtney Russell lives in Texas and found that marriage didn’t match the idealized expectations she’d picked up from Christian culture. Looking back it seems as though older Christians were so interested in keeping younger ones from having premarital sex that they presented a fantasy intended to be “as good as Hollywood—or as powerful. . . . It reminds me of when you’re a kid and they bribe you with candy to behave yourself in the grocery store. . . . It’s all about a do and don’t list of being a Christian.” couple: Fuse/getty images • collins: elbert chu For world
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Let’s Look at two churches known for helping, starting with CHBC on Capitol Hill. It has so many singles that meeting others isn’t a problem. But the church didn’t want to be just another station on the Dating Express. It set out to build a culture based on its complementary understanding of gender roles. That means a culture where men initiate and women feel protected. Deepak Reju, an associate pastor there, says building that kind of culture takes time and requires pastors and elders to “teach, teach, teach, teach, disciple, shepherd.” The church offers a combination of formal programs and more relational “ways to build it into the conversation.” It regularly offers a Sunday school class called “Friendship, Courtship, Marriage,” and another one on discipleship. The church encourages married and single members to seek friendships with each other. Reju says churches can expect pushback, especially when they teach principles that conflict with widely held cultural assumptions. Ten years ago Reju was a pastoral intern when his church began teaching the dating class as part of its core Sunday school curriculum. He remembers an early class filled with angry professional women who pushed back against the teaching that women should wait for men to initiate. Now 10 years later, “We’ve taught and the culture has changed.” That required consistency and patience. Even in Christian circles, he notes, guys in their 30s can be shallow, attracted by the pretty 20-year-old rather than the godly 30-year-old. So the church pushes: At least take time to know the girls around you. Hang out. Build brother-and-sister relationships. Some CHBC teachings challenge not only secular dating philosophies but evangelical ones. For example, the tempo for relationships: Twenty-four church couples married in 2010, and on average the process from courtship to engagement to marriage took about a year, too fast for
some parents who prefer the “evangelical gold standard”— one year of dating, then maybe a year-long engagement. Reju says that after two or three dates, a guy should know whether he’s interested or not: “He should fish or cut bait.” Once a man and woman decide to pursue a relationship, they need to talk about important stuff, and not save that for after the wedding or engagement. The church teaches couples to look for either flexibility or agreement, and to use wisdom to distinguish the things that matter from the things that don’t. He says parents who urge delay don’t hear the anguished stories from singles who feel guilty about the level of physical intimacy that characterizes their relationships: “We are trying to save our singles from falling into sexual temptation.” For now CHBC has resisted doing its marriage counseling in a group. Instead the senior pastor and four associate pastors provide 10 hours of counseling to engaged couples, one pastor per couple. Sometimes their wives participate. The hefty time commitment results in close relations between at least one pastor and each newlywed couple, which is valuable if they run into trouble. Across the country, Rocky Mountain Community Church-Billings has one senior pastor, one associate, and 400 attendees on average. It has also made teaching and discipling young couples a priority. For Jason Barrie it is a personal passion: He has been married for 17 years and is writing a premarital counseling book. His church has a strong discipleship culture. Singles are often in the homes of married couples and an expectation exists that people will invest in the lives of others. Small groups are intergenerational, not “dating factories.” The church says it is “good to connect, but do it in the context of real ministry. If you’re running towards Christ, that’s where you want to find a man.” Barrie uses a story from his own life to show how these mentoring relationships help. When he and his wife had been married about two years, they were eating a meal with his mentor and wife. During the meal, the older folks talked casually about conflicts in their marriage. The Barries exchanged shocked glances. Seeing their expressions, the mentor “pushed a little bit and asked a few questions” before saying, “It sure seems like you are sweeping a lot of things under the carpet.” Looking back, Barrie says, “These weren’t huge catastrophic things, but mini-moments when we chose to pretend that everything was OK.” It took an older couple who knew the Barries well to teach them, “Conflict is inevitable, so how will you deal with it?” Barrie says churches have to create a culture acknowledging “that all of us are people in need of change. . . . It requires humility among leaders.” He admits it is hard: “I want to be the pastor who has it all together, who has the expertise. . . . But they don’t need a perfect pastor. They need a Savior who is perfect.” At the Billings church, couples in premarital or pre-engagement counseling talk with older couples about what they are learning and ask questions.
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Nathan Tircuit, a Reformed University Fellowship campus minister at Mississippi State from 2006 to 2009, says the nearly 300 students who came to his weekly Bible studies were interested in dating and relationships—but they didn’t have the biblical big picture. He told them it was like having “pieces from a puzzle, but you have no picture on the cover of the puzzle box to tell you how to put it all together.” He spent a semester giving that big picture, starting with the Trinity, the fall, and the church. He taught on biblical manliness and godly womanhood, sacrifice and service, sex and forgiveness. He taught, “Some relationships have reached a point where you needed to either break up or get married.” A co-ed later told him that she and her boyfriend left the Bible study that night and broke up in the parking lot.
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More experienced couples help break through the fairy-tale haze: “We’re in a relationship. We don’t have conflict.” Barrie is excited when he sees in counseling evidence of conflict. A moment happens when one person reveals disappointment in the other. That provides an opportunity to ask, “Where are you going to turn? Where is God in this relationship?” Sometimes it’s the last straw and reveals that one of the pair has turned the relationship into an idol. They may choose to part ways: “There’s still a choice.” Other times the couples move ahead, better aware of each other’s faults, and willing to trust God to work through them. Members of both churches have learned that even when singles don’t recognize the need, marriages will be stronger if the church does a better job teaching and discipling. If the church won’t, young people will get their signals from each other or the culture. The result will be a mishmash of random ideas and opinions gathered from friends, parents, and the media—some of them consciously held and some of them as ubiquitous, and thus unnoticeable, as the air. Both churches are making their materials available: ’s dating and discipleship materials are online.
Churches can download and tweak to fit their cultures. Jason Barrie is writing a curriculum that will emphasize a “gospelcentered” approach—right relations between people come from right relations with God. New materials are important because many marriage books now in bookstores are skillsoriented, promising a silver bullet—better communication, better sex, or better conflict resolution—to fix what’s broken.
TRANSFORMING BOTH SOCIETY and church patterns for relationships is hard: To be effective in mentoring, older married couples need to open up about difficulties and challenges. Sometimes cultural pressures keep that from happening. High-school student Will Stout from Fort Payne, Ala., has found it hard for adults to be transparent: “What happens in your household is your business. . . . Be friendly, invite people in . . . but don’t be frank. Just say, ‘I’m doing good.’” Nathan Tircuit, now a pastor outside of Memphis, notes that putting on a happy face amid struggle and pain hurts the troubled family—by the time anyone hears about it the situation is irreconcilable—but is particularly devastating to younger couples.
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first, giving each a chance to observe the other in many settings: “I knew I respected him a lot. . . . He had good sense.” Miller says much of the dating literature “leads to idealism about what a Christian relationship really is. It can create unnecessary hesitation when you meet a guy who doesn’t think in the same terms.” Instead, she says it is important to learn to love and follow Christ, and get parental input. There isn’t a formula: “If you do this, God will do this. If you do this, you will be happy.” She is happy that her fiancé “encouraged me to be a better version of myself.” The lesson that hours of interviewing drove home to me is that we are sinful human beings who live in a culture that is hostile to lifelong marriage. It isn’t surprising that marriage is in trouble, especially when a rosy, Disney-esque fantasy beckons. Christians desperately need the church to be involved. Jason Barrie in Montana says if preachers and Bible study teachers aren’t speaking in a way that acknowledges the challenges of human relationships and the reality of suffering, they are leaving the field wide open to Oprah and Dr. Phil. Solid biblical teaching and discipleship is not something that can be farmed out to weekend retreats. A discipleship culture, like slow food, takes time. Barrie says the benefits are priceless: “Churches where people are real about the Christian life, and the ultimate message is being preached: Sinners saved by grace.” A
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Brittany Lewis, homeschooling mother of three in McKinney, Texas, is discouraged by the amount of infidelity “plaguing the church” and wonders if it is because “we put on our Sunday best, but then we don’t allow anyone to see what is really going on at home. . . . If pastors and older Christian couples are unfaithful, what hope is there for the rest of us? We currently feel really discouraged and, honestly, fearful. Who will teach us and challenge us?” Kids who grow up in strong marriage-affirming and discipling churches are less likely to be blindsided by messy realities or influenced by Disney fantasies. Carol Vinitiera grew up in a church in Pennsylvania where her father is a pastor. He taught marriage classes and mentored couples. She saw her parents work through issues. Now she’s taking that solid foundation and applying it to her own budding relationship: “Our goal is to glorify God through our marriage.” She’s known her boyfriend since the fifth grade, although they didn’t start a relationship until two years ago. Now they are praying and talking through harder topics: “What does it mean to have him lead me? Can I submit to my fiancé, believing in faith that God will make him the man He wants him to be, and that in submitting to him I am submitting to Christ?” New college graduate Emily Miller met her fiancé when he was student president and she served in student government. They were friends and colleagues
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V the perfect choice to serve as the Chief of Mission for next year’s Olympics in London. A corporate motivational speaker and former Olympic champion, Vidmar since has been chairman of USA Gymnastics. Yet while he was offered and accepted the post, come summer , Vidmar will not be the United States Chief of Mission. Why? Because in he donated , to support California’s Proposition , the voter-approved legislation that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Vidmar’s case was a controversy that more sputtered than erupted. On April , the U.S. Olympic Committee () announced that it had selected Vidmar as Chief of Mission. Over the following few days a handful of gay websites complained, citing Vidmar’s background as an advocate STAND TO LOSE: for traditional marriage and his membership in the Vidmar. Mormon church. Then on May the Chicago Tribune posted an item on its sports blog, Globetrotting, in which only one athlete, figure skater Johnny Weir, said he opposed Vidmar’s appointment. In the same article Vidmar assured columnist Philip Hersch he would serve and support all the Olympians regardless of their sexual orientation, and the of the , Scott Blackmun, reaffirmed the committee’s choice, saying the respected Vidmar’s right to express his religious convictions. The next day, on May , Vidmar announced he was resigning so his presence would not become a distraction to the upcoming games and the performances of the athletes. Others have reacted differently to gay protests. When University of Michigan law students opposed Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio as this year’s commencement speaker on the grounds that he “vocally and actively supports denying equal rights to gays and lesbians,” the university held firm. Except for a group of students staging a silent walkout, Portman’s graduation speech came off without a hitch.
Likewise, some University of South Carolina students objected to the honorary degree their school was conferring on the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, G. Bryant Wright, and called him an “advocate for hate.” Wright attended the ceremony, collected his diploma, and the event went on. But Portman and Wright do not have to depend on corporate invitations for their daily bread. We’ll watch to see what happens to Vidmar’s bookings and career, now that he is on the radar of gay-rights groups. Recent events surrounding law firm King and Spalding’s decision to renege on its contract to defend the Defense of Marriage Act and drop the United States House of Representatives as a client suggest that Vidmar might have a hard time. One day after King and Spalding withdrew from the case, The Weekly Standard obtained an internal email from the Human Rights Campaign (), a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered () activist group that lobbies for same-sex marriage. The email revealed that the organization privately contacted King and Spalding clients to inform them of the firm’s “wrongheaded decision” to represent the House. Unapologetic, spokesman Fred Sainz confirmed to The Washington Post that the group did indeed contact some of King and Spalding’s Fortune clientele so they could, in turn, bring pressure to bear against the Atlanta-based firm. Though Sainz would not disclose which clients his group contacted, he did say, “We are an advocacy firm that is dedicated to improving the lives of gays and lesbians. It is incumbent on us to launch a full-throated educational campaign so firms know that these kinds of engagements will reflect on the way [their] clients and law school recruits think of [them],” adding, “We did all of this, and we’re proud to have done it.” Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, says this kind of professional intimidation is the same-sex lobby’s new modus operandi for furthering its agenda. “Rather than try to win over voters, they threaten to hurt your business and go to JUNE 18, 2011
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clients and cause a fuss. This isn’t confirmed yet, but according to the gay blogs, they succeeded in getting Coca-Cola to pressure King and Spalding,” she says. To date, the soft drink giant will neither confirm nor deny that it threatened to take its legal business elsewhere if the firm did not drop , but a Coca-Cola spokesman did point out that the company has a long history of support for “diversity.” Great as the legal implications of the getting a major law firm to drop a case it finds objectionable are, perhaps even more significant is the case of Scott Eckern, former artistic director and chief operating officer of Sacramento’s California Music Theatre. After some gay theater professionals noticed his name on the website antigayblacklist.com that listed people who contributed money to support Proposition , they organized a boycott. Marc Shaiman, the Tony-award-winning composer of Hairspray, and Jeff Whitty, the Tony-award-winning playwright of Avenue Q, said they would not allow the theater to perform any of their future works while Eckern was employed there. Gay-rights groups urged Sacramento theatergoers not to patronize the venue, which is the largest nonprofit arts organization in the state and the oldest professional performing arts company in Sacramento. News reports included some of Eckern’s colleagues expressing shock, saying that until the incident they had no idea of his beliefs concerning gay marriage. “I am disappointed that my personal convictions have cost me the opportunity to do what I love the most,” Eckern, who had been employed with the theater for years, said in a prepared statement. Before resigning, he publicly donated ,— the same amount he had given to support Prop —to the . What differentiates the activities of the from interestgroup boycotts of the past is that it isn’t the platform or practice of the companies themselves they object to, but the constitutionally protected political expression of the companies’ employees, volunteers, and clients. Unlike, say, parent groups boycotting Abercrombie and Fitch for its sexually charged advertising, the , King and Spalding, and California Music Theatre didn’t take a stand on the definition of marriage. To the extent that the three express any corporate opinion regarding homosexuality, it is positive. Jennifer Roback Morse, president of the traditional marriage advocacy group The Ruth Institute, says the ramifications of tactics like the ’s are enormous, with gay activists essentially saying they expect businesses to police the political beliefs and
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political activities of their employees and volunteers or face severe retribution. Yet according to the most recent Pew poll, Americans are about evenly split on the issue of same-sex marriage ( percent oppose it, while percent are for it). Perhaps more telling, gay marriage has been defeated in every state where it has appeared on the ballot. This would seem to indicate a serious disconnect between the actual power of gay groups and their perceived power in the business community. Gallagher says there’s an easy explanation for the discrepancy—the work of major media. “These elite networks of power use the echo chamber of the media to exact a price and punish those who disagree with them,” says Gallagher. As an example, she offers Doug Manchester, a hotel developer in San Diego who donated money to support Prop . “[Gay groups] organized a protest in front of his hotel—no big deal, about guys in red shirts. But you get guys in red shirts and The New York Times publishes a major story on it and the echo chamber picks it up from there.” Gallagher says that while the reality is that the ’s bark is worse than its bite, “most regular people don’t want to get bitten.” Morse echoes her sentiments, saying that even though there’s little evidence the gay lobby has a significant impact on customer behavior, when they begin to drum up negative coverage, “they all [the companies] completely fold. All of them. Including people who ought to know better.” Once a company gives in to the demands of groups like the , says Morse, it will only earn itself more reprisals. “It’s like when a couple of gay bloggers called down the wrath of the gay networks on Chick-fil-A for donating some sandwiches to a marriage seminar that had nothing to do with gay marriage,” she says. “My thought at the time was that Chick-fil-A should have told them, ‘Tough, take a flying leap.’ And the fact that they didn’t is why [gay groups] have hung onto it. Chick-fil-A showed weakness and now they’re all over them.” She believes that with the corporate world increasingly doing what voters would not—bowing to gay activists’ demands that same-sex marriage be treated as a civil right— how the Christian business community reacts to the pressure will be especially important. “It is a fact that we sometimes have to pay a price for the sake of the gospel,” she comments. Peter Vidmar’s retreat suggests that the gay lobby’s tactic of targeting businesses and businesspeople may not face the kind of resistance Morse hopes to see. A
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UNDER PRESSURE: Sen. Portman; the Atlanta offices of King and Spalding; Eckern; protesters outside Doug Manchester’s San Diego hotel; Wright (from left to right).
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God has brought BaRRett Duke a long way in 40 years; the one-time drug user in the streets of New Orleans is now a top policy advocate in the corridors of power
Lobbyist with a cause B arrett Duke’s path to Washington insider began in a grocery store parking lot. It was 1976, America’s bicentennial, and Duke was a drug user living in party-friendly New Orleans. God, church, politics, and culture—all destined to play key roles in Duke’s future—were not foremost in his 22-year-old mind. He had barely graduated from high school four years earlier, and he was well on his way to becoming a victim of the Big Easy’s culture of excess. In a Winn-Dixie parking lot Duke ran into a friend, Dick Flores, who had vanished from the drug scene. Before Duke could invite him to the next drug score, Flores explained his absence this way: “I’ve found something that truly makes me happy and it never wears off.” “What is it,” Duke asked. “God came into my life and gave me peace for the first time.” Duke, first saying he was happy that Flores had found something that worked for him, quickly added: “But that is not for me.” God had other plans. This casual encounter began a deep work of conviction in Duke’s life. “I used to party with him all the time,” Duke kept thinking. “I remembered what his life was like, and he now was a transformed individual.” Several months later, Duke attended his first Bible study. Six months after he professed faith in Christ, Duke was leading two Bible studies of his own. Today, despite commanding the attention of the nation’s top lawmakers, Duke does not hold a public policy degree. He is not a lawyer. And he is likely one of the few people regularly walking the corridors of Congress with a master’s degree in Old Testament theology. As the main Washington lobbyist for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Duke is charged with being the policy voice in the nation’s capital for the country’s more than 16 million Southern Baptists. Duke does not discount the labyrinth journey he took to get here. In New Orleans he learned firsthand how a permissive culture could devastate someone missing a strong moral compass. And he says his biblical training, which also includes a doctorate in Religious and Theological Studies, helps him tackle present-day policy issues. “If you want to know what God thinks about humans living in society, you read the Old Testament and see how God dealt with the nation of Israel,” Duke said. “Why would we expect Him to deal differently with us?” Duke’s visceral sense of secular culture’s power was reinforced during his 12-year tenure as pastor of a new Baptist church in Denver that began in 1984. There Duke discovered a disconnection between how his congregation acted in church and how they lived during the rest of the week. “It was clear to me that the culture had invaded the church,” Duke said. He began shepherding his flock toward a more active role in local community issues such as abortion.
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Then in 1997 Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, provided Duke with an opportunity to engage in the public policy debate on a bigger stage. A former professor at Criswell College in Dallas where Duke earned his undergraduate degree, Land remembered Duke as one of his top students in 13 years of teaching. Land thought Duke would be a good fit for the commission’s director of conferences and seminars. Duke moved his family from Denver to Nashville, where he began writing and speaking about issues from capital punishment to stem-cell research for a nationwide audience of Southern Baptists. Duke found that exploring these issues often took him to Washington and, in 2003, Duke relocated to the Capital Beltway full-time as the commission’s vice president for public policy and research. Operating out of an office just a couple of blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Duke meets directly with lawmakers and their staffs to promote a Christian worldview. While protecting life tops Duke’s agenda, he addresses a wide variety of issues: he lobbies for both securing the borders and a path to legal status for illegal immigrants; he favors a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget limited to 20 percent of GDP; he has pressed for a federal Marriage Protection Amendment to the Constitution. Last year he fought against both the healthcare overhaul and the repeal of the policy preventing gays from openly serving in the military. Duke is also pushing for greater federal funding for internet firewall-breaching technology so people around the world can have free access to information without government censorship. “There is hardly an area that doesn’t need Christian moral witnesses,” Duke said. Duke is quick to say that he is not a political junkie. But Land, his boss, thinks that is a plus in a city where politicians are often idolized. “He is immune to the Beltway mentality,” Land said. “Barrett Duke knows in his bone marrow that he is there to represent the Lord Jesus Christ and Southern Baptists, not himself. I never have to worry about him getting that confused.” Along the way, Duke has earned the real world equivalent of an advanced degree in public policy: The ideological divide in Washington means lawmakers have many different views on how to solve the world’s problems. When Duke first arrived, he thought he could sit down with lawmakers and carry the day by the force of his convictions and arguments. After seven years he has learned that the real question many lawmakers ask is: How many votes do you represent? “Movement here in D.C. is more a matter of pure political pressure than it is winning minds,” Duke said. That is why he devotes a bulk of his job to convincing the 16 million Southern Baptist voices he represents that they need to get louder. It is the same challenge he encountered as a Denver pastor. He credits the annual March For Life rally in Washington for pushing the House this year to pass several pro-life bills. “If Bible-believing Christians would decide that what happens in Washington, D.C., matters,” said Duke, “most of these issues would be resolved in a way that would bring honor to the Lord.” A
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I’m generally supportive of Israel and am still surprised to encounter left-wing Jews who ally with anti-Israeli Muslims. There’s a name for such folks: Self-hating Jews. Why did Jewish comedienne Roseanne Barr call Israel “a Nazi state”? Emory University professor Sander Gilman, author of Jewish SelfHatred (1986), notes that “one of the most recent forms of Jewish self-hatred is the virulent opposition to the existence of the State of Israel.” Michael Horowitz has called evangelicals “the new Jews” in terms of facing discrimination and even loathing in some academic and other circles. If so, I’d like to suggest—after reading Rob Bell and others—that we should start referring to evangelical self-hatred. Among the self-haters are those who display virulent opposition to the existence of churches that are not emergent, or don’t meet in a house, or are not radically redistributionist, or something other than standard. Bell’s best-seller, Love Wins, bashes the church straw men he creates. Bell repeatedly claims that many churches declare, “Only a select few go to heaven.” Maybe he’s thinking PROUD HERiTaGE: British of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but nurse Florence nightingale (far I’ve been in more than 100 left) writes letters in 1855 for churches and have repeatedly wounded soldiers of the crimean War; a missionary heard the offer of the gospel to doctor (top) examines patients all and the hopeful expectation in south africa; a missionary that heaven contains many priest teaches catechism to mansions—that will be filled. children in china (middle); a Bell quotes the most outmissionary teaches a class of landish things as if they’re women of the venda Tribe to typical. He quotes one woman read their native language. LeFT: universaL HisTory arcHive/GeTTy imaGes • ToP anD BoTTom: Grey viLLeT//Time LiFe PicTures/GeTTy imaGes; miDDLe: KeysTone-France/ Gamma-KeysTone via GeTTy imaGes
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saying, “My father raped me while reciting the Lord’s Prayer.” Is that what evangelicals do? Why bring up, in the first chapter, such a profane rarity? I suppose evangelical self-hatred sells books, but more than money is involved: It seems to stem from how some evangelicals were brought up. Maybe I’m immune to it because I didn’t become a Christian until I was —so I’m even fond of Christmas carols. Do cures for evangelical self-hatred exist? Strong church worship and preaching is key. Solid reading about what evangelically-minded folks have contributed to the world, and increased reporting of what evangelicals are doing now, can help as well. We’re trying to do that in .
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There’s much to be proud of in the present as well. Self-hating evangelicals sometimes talk as if churches only now are emerging from a cocoon in which they separated themselves from neighbors, but over the past years I’ve seen hundreds of ministries that loved their neighbors through the practice of effective compassion. And this month we are introducing the first regional winner in ’s sixth annual Effective Compassion contest. For those new to our magazine: In January I asked readers to nominate local ministries that offer challenging, personal, and spiritual help to those in need. We looked at the nominees’ websites and other materials, telephoned some of them, chose the finalists for each region—South, Midwest, Northeast, and West— and then sent out a reporter to eyeball the most promising ones. We’ll roll out regional winners over the next two months, with a story in and a video plus other photos on our website. We will then have six weeks of online voting by readers (last year, , voted) and will announce the national winner at a Houston event in October. Given that Congress is taking up welfare reform again this year, we’re particularly interested this year in ministries that help people prepare for and get jobs, so they can stay off or get off welfare. We’ve also been insisting that organizations be explicitly Christian, with ample use of volunteers, a track record of creating bonds between helpers and helped, and programs so well-conceptualized that what’s being done in one place is doable by others. Our preference is for small groups that haven’t received much recognition over the years. This year’s South Region winner, Challenge House of Hopkinsville, Ky., and the runner-up from Greensboro, Ga., both fit that bill well, as you can see over the next few pages. Following those we have an essay by a young woman who decided to kiss law school goodbye, for now, and instead work in a residential program for at-risk teenagers. We conclude this section with a story about the compassion that a program at one Christian university helps students develop. Crucially, that program director says, “We draw our definition of social justice from the Scripture, not so much from the secular terminology. We try to be very careful to say we’re about biblical social justice, not about secular social justice. What we call today ‘social justice’ the church has commonly called ‘compassion ministries’—showing compassion to your neighbor and helping those in need.” That’s what churches have been doing for two millennia, and what many U.S. evangelical churches have been doing for two centuries. Nothing new, but given the presence of evangelical self-hatred, we need to be reminded that compassion has been for four centuries a mark of the church in America. A
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For some self-hating evangelicals, the story of the past , years is: “Christ came, Christians have pillaged, we’re sorry”—but three books (along with many others) tell an accurate story. Alvin Schmidt’s How Christianity Changed the World, Jonathan Hill’s What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?, and Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success all show Christians for centuries setting up hospitals and other humane institutions. Ancient documents show how pagans abandoned cities when plagues erupted but Christians remained, taking care of the sick in the belief that this was their God-given duty. Many centuries later, the anti-slavery movement developed on the same Christ-following basis. The story of William Wilberforce’s ’s persistence two centuries ago is now well-known— Eric Metaxas, John Piper, William Hague, Kevin Belmonte, and others have written biographies—but the breadth of Wilberforce’s movement has sometimes been overlooked. For example, in Great Britain percent of adult Wesleyan Methodists signed petitions calling for the end of slavery. This consensus among Christians shows that Wilberforce’s character was great but the character of the God in whom he believed was even more significant. Some historians profile Christian missionaries who did more harm than good, but many others in British colonies ended some forms of forced labor, pursued the rule of law in British colonies, fought the opium trade, and built schools because they wanted people to read the Bible in their own language. In the United States, evangelicals in the th century not only built schools and hospitals but effectively fought poverty and abortion. This is
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Wally Bryan, , spent years
as a successful realtor trying to get people to move out of Hopkinsville, Kentucky’s poor neighborhoods. Now he lives in one himself— and has for almost seven years. He still looks out of place—an energetic white man in khakis and a polo shirt walking the streets of run-down neighborhoods, many of them predominantly African-American. But he is treated as a fixture. Bryan knows and speaks to everyone he sees. They know him and the Challenge House ministry he founded. Sometime after serving for nine years as mayor of Hopkinsville in the s, Bryan experienced some “blue periods” and began to study. He read books like The Purpose Driven Life and John Perkins’ Rescuing At-Risk Communities. Perkins stressed how Jesus came to earth, a rough neighborhood, to be with those who needed Him. His message to some affluent people: Relocate to poor areas. Bryan believed God wanted him to be one such person. He got on his bike and peddled his way to the poorest neighborhood he could find. Without any real plan, Bryan on June , , moved into a -per-month “Hoptown” apartment with roaches. He sold his own home in a nice neighborhood to burn his bridges. This move eventually resulted in Challenge House Inc., a privately funded nonprofit providing homes and volunteer support for Christians who want to move into poor neighborhoods and become “local missionaries.” The Challenge House initiative involves everything from giving Popsicles to kids on a hot day and inviting neighbors over for a family dinner, to helping someone study for the , holding a bicycle workshop, tutoring after school, and teaching residents how to grow tomato plants. Bryan said the organization’s goal is to “have a critical mass of these houses so that people know a Challenge House is like a house church, a neighborhood school, and a work-overwelfare program. The government wants to come in and fix up the houses, but you’ve got to fix up the people.” After recently drafting bylaws, the board of directors is working to develop standards for Challenge House families— called Neighborhood Ambassadors—that would include, among other things, intentional time in the streets. Many inner-city residents do not have cars and are easy to meet by sitting on a porch or walking the neighborhood.
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Neighborhood Ambassadors pay per bedroom per month to live in a Challenge House. Part of the home is private, and part is public— and is open to visitors in the afternoons. Three Challenge Houses are now in adjacent neighborhoods. The first Challenge House emerged in . Bryan and others convinced a local bank to give Challenge a crack house in the Durrett Avenue neighborhood that was going to cost , to tear down. Residents like Angelique Victor, who lived across the street, thought Bryan was “kooky.” He would visit the area and tell neighbors of plans to restore the dilapidated structure. But after substantial work Challenge House No. opened with a party for neighbors.
FIXING UP THE PEOPLE: Neighborhood kids Destiny Govan (top) and Sam and Malik Miller (above); Wally Bryan counsels a young man about education and a jobs class (facing page).
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Challenge House volunteers surveyed neighbors and asked GIVING HOPE: The Wilson family; Angelique in front of Challenge House No. ; neighborhood kids Bryson, Jordan, and Thomas. what type of programs might be most beneficial. Jobs, they said—so the mainstay program for Challenge House became for her: “One thing I like about the Jobs for Life class—even Jobs for Life (jobsforlife.org), a proven, Christ-based program after you graduate, they keep on calling you. What are you targeted toward the unemployed that teaches biblical princidoing? Are you coming to ples about work and how to apply them in the Bible study this week?” workplace. Angelique finished the One day, Angelique invited Challenge House class in and soon got a folks into her home. After learning about the job at the for three jobs class, she signed up. “I treated the class LOCATION: Hopkinsville, Ky. hours a week. She slowly was like it was a job,” Angelique said. It helped her
SIZE: One director, board members, numerous volunteers, all unpaid. Number of participants hard to measure, as nearly every person encountered on the street of three inner-city neighborhoods is reached in some way by this ministry. ANNUAL BUDGET: , (, comes from donations from individuals) WEBSITE: challengehouse.org/index.html
promoted and is now Outreach Coordinator at the , managing after-school tutoring programs in neighborhoods high in federally subsidized housing and gang activity. Other Durrett Avenue neighbors were starved for father figures, Bryan found.
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learn discipline and practice being on time. Before the class, “It was whatever Angelique wanted to do, and Angelique did it when she wanted to do it. . . . But I learned that everybody else’s time is just as important as mine.” Angelique was a Christian who felt “stuck” in her faith. The Bible study that accompanied the program helped her gain a greater biblical understanding. She also benefited from being around people she could trust and who cared WORLD JUNE 18, 2011
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He met a child in the street and invited him to come over and learn to play chess some day. Not expecting the child to take him up on the offer, Bryan was surprised to see the boy come back with four other little boys. As a single man, Bryan thought it wise to leave his apartment door open and tell the children they could only stay inside for a minute. They were fascinated with his laptop computer, globe, bicycle, and golf clubs. “We want to be Tiger! Show us how to play golf ball!” they said. Bryan explained it was just “golf” and took them outside to show them how to swing and hit a ball. Afterward, he gave them a Coke and a candy bar. Bryan had only spent about minutes with the children. One hung back and grabbed his hand. “I wish you were my daddy,” he said. Bryan later learned the child’s father was in prison.
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Paige and Heath Wilson, the Neighborhood
Ambassadors of Challenge House No. , plan to focus on children’s programs and single moms. The home is conveniently located near a bus stop. The Wilsons fell in love with the Challenge House initiative while staying at House No. during a summer with kids from their church youth group. They took eight youth group members to stay in the house and do some neighborhood painting, tear down a building, and hold a block party for area kids. The Wilsons became House No. residents in August . With a -year-old and another baby on the way, Paige Wilson said she was initially concerned about safety when they considered moving their family to the neighborhood. God comforted her with a passage from John: “Perfect love casts out fear.” They have had no problems with crime and chose not to get an alarm system. Retired elementary-school teacher Wanda Jones has also become involved with Challenge House. She had a friend who wanted to attend Jobs because it addressed conflict resolution, so Jones went along for moral support. She has since found herself teaching classes in “a place that gives the whole neighborhood hope. . . . Just because someone has a drug problem or some other kind of issues they’re dealing with doesn’t mean they don’t have dreams and aspirations. God puts something in everybody.” Jones got to know Michelle Brown, who also attended a Jobs class after dealing with addiction to crack cocaine. The Challenge community, the Jobs class, and Bible study helped Michelle, who was in drug court at the time, to stay clean, grow spiritually, and get a job. She now works at a women’s center where she helps women struggling with problems she knows all too well. “We all go through something, but if you can have just one person there to give you some kind of positive outlook, it can mend some things that people aren’t even aware are torn down within a person. And that’s what it took with me,” Brown said: “I knew I had problems. I didn’t know exactly what they were. But I knew by myself I couldn’t solve them. When I let God in, He just started putting the right people, places, and things in my path.” A
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- Greene County, Ga., has a racial and economic divide. “The town” of Greensboro is not a wealthy one, and it includes many from minorities. That contrasts with “the lake,” Lake Oconee, a community that has grown in recent years as retirees from Atlanta have relocated to its beautiful scenery and nationally know golf courses. But Jimmy Long (above), pastor of Grace Fellowship Baptist church, which has members from the lake, pushes for a “Christian spirit” that transcends church and community lines: “We want people to become more like Christ daily in their attitude and actions. . . . There’s a certain level of expectation that you will be connected in ministry, serving others in Jesus’ name, and missions.” That focus on community has led Grace Fellowship members to start several ministries, one of which is —named not for the mythological holder of the world but for “Attaining Truth, Love And Self-control.” This Christ-centered ministry, modeled on an that began in Iowa in , tailors its program to individual needs. staff members sit with potential clients and discuss goals that can include growing spiritually, improving a marriage, getting a , managing anger, developing interviewing and life skills, joining a choir, or being a better parent. Those who seek help from , like former client Cursheena, usually come through referrals from friends. then draws up a two-year contract outlining the agreed-upon goals. The client, who is free to cancel at any time, is assigned a mentor, called a “Christian friend,” who becomes an extended family member. Cursheena was experiencing some depression when she came to . She developed goals to pass the and grow spiritually. didn’t see her from the outside as just another single mom but “built up my motivation with life,” she said. Cursheena now encourages others, attends church regularly, uses her cooking skills in the community, and is considering becoming a Certified Nurse Assistant. —A.M.
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are heading to law school. It’s a natural choice for those who want to be leaders. I was student body president at my college, trained to be a leader. I saw the challenge and opportunity of law school as a logical next step. I’ve spent a year and half working toward law school. I took the twice, wrote multiple versions of my application essays, applied to eight law schools, and got into some good ones. I’m not going, at least this coming year. Instead, I’ve decided to work at a residential program for at-risk teenagers. Like most people, I am prone to anxiety when faced with limited information and life-changing choices. I don’t know the ramifications of my new decision. I did face the pressure of law school looming in front of me like a dreaded inevitability. I feared that God had forgotten to lead me and instead left me to stare at many perfectly good paths with no direction as to which law school to choose. Then, I found I had little desire to decide. Why, I wondered, am I forcing myself into something because others say it’s important if I am to be a leader? What kind of leader? By God’s grace, I started asking myself if I might be looking at the wrong option. Suddenly I focused on an opportunity I’d been aware of for years, but had never considered: being on staff at Shelterwood, a residential program in Missouri for struggling teens. The job requirements mirrored my God-given situation: I had to be unmarried, willing to move, willing to immerse myself into a community, and flexible in my expectations of time and independence. Teenagers come to Shelterwood for many different reasons: academic struggles, family conflict, depression, addiction. Regardless of why their parents decide to enroll them in a
therapeutic boarding school, the program’s goal is to bring hope and restoration through a structured counseling curriculum and mentorship. Residents live, eat, go to high school, and work all in this environment. I will be one of about on-site, full-time mentors living with the residents. It’s not glamorous; my job includes chores and kitchen duty. But I will also have a task of incredible value: loving a few teenagers unconditionally through struggle. If someone had asked me a year ago where I might be, I would have gone through a hundred guesses before landing on Shelterwood. I imagined I’d be doing something that had a bit more of a “changing the world” ring to it, something that sounded strategic, academic, TOUGH influential, and resumé-building. Nevertheless, DECISIONS: Kids at I have full confidence this is the right step. Shelterwood. I would never present my decision as an exact map to follow. In general, I think graduate school is a good idea. I think difficult jobs are worth taking. I like crafting a good resumé. There is more to consider than prestige, but I should not scorn it. I want to make decisions courageously, trusting that God’s direction is steady and sure, but not always what I expect and not always when I want it. Two things bolster my confidence and steady my conviction in this decision. The first is that God calls us to faithful pursuit of His purposes, and so surrendering my own plans and trusting God’s direction is a necessary part of achieving the gutsy, hard, and joyful life He promises. The second is that life is a marathon, not a sprint. My heroes, both dead and alive, were all called to things they had not even considered in their s. I may spend the next few years doing a job that prepares me for a calling I have yet to imagine. Shelterwood may appear to be a diversion from a leadership path. I am realizing it is an opportunity for God to develop my resolve and prove Himself sufficient. A
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REDEFINING ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ by ELIZABETH WAIBEL
Tiny leaves push through rich, brown soil in a
greenhouse on the campus of Trevecca Nazarene University. Buckets of compost and the waste from a tank of tilapia fish feed the sprouting plants, which will soon be transferred to a community vegetable garden. There, rows of lettuce flourish a block away from the convenience stores and fast-food restaurants of urban Nashville. “We live in what we call a ‘food desert,’” Jamie Casler, director of Trevecca’s J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice, said. “Local residents here do not have access to healthy, affordable foods like fresh fruits and vegetables because there is no grocery store here in our neighborhood.” Trevecca is trying to change that: Partnering with local organizations, the school’s Social Justice program has created neighborhood gardens. “We provide all of the materials, resources, and labor through our student body, our classes, and our environmental justice program to grow the produce,” Casler said. “Then we give it away to people in need in our community, or we invite them to come garden with us and develop their own plots so they have access to healthy foods.”
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ENGAGING NEIGHBORS: Jamie Casler (above) in the Trevecca greenhouse; strawberries grow in the community garden.
Founded in , the program has expanded the common definition of social justice—sometimes associated with government-mandated redistribution—and focused instead on an approach to humanitarian ministries informed and motivated by the gospel. This means engaging with the high-crime, economically disadvantaged neighborhood around the university, while giving students practical experience and training in solving real-life social problems. “We draw our definition of social justice from the Scripture, not so much from the secular terminology,” Casler said. “We try to be very careful to say we’re about biblical social justice, not about secular social justice. What we call today ‘social justice’ the church has commonly called ‘compassion ministries’— showing compassion to your neighbor and helping those in need.” Trevecca Nazarene is unusual for having a social justice major that emphasizes neighborly compassion rather than either liberal macro-redistribution or merely the mechanics of running nonprofit organizations. The university has deliberately remained in a poor neighborhood, Casler said: “There have been many opportunities for the school to
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relocate out to the suburbs, and the administration has always said our mission is to serve our community.” That approach has helped both the neighborhood and
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H C, the -year-old founder of the Family Radio Network, used his broadcast empire, thousands of billboards, and an apocalyptic flood of tracts and posters to warn the world that Judgment Day would arrive on May . He expected percent of the world’s population to be raptured to heaven while the rest would be left behind for tribulations. Camping had prophesied the end of the world before. Hundreds of his followers gathered at an auditorium in Alameda, Calif., in September . This time, he said, we could be certain that Judgment Day will arrive on May because it will be , days since
the crucifixion of Christ. The number is significant because it is a multiple of sacred numbers , , and . “When I found this out,” he said, “I tell you, it blew my mind.” Media gave extraordinary attention to Camping’s prediction, and atheist groups planned sarcastic “rapture parties.” As Matthew Paul Turner wrote in The Washington Post, there was nothing funny about the manufactured fears, dashed hopes, and river of ridicule that Camping and his prophecy brought about. We are called, Albert Mohler wrote, to be “eagerly waiting” for Christ’s return, not “arrogantly setting dates.” Christ warned against claiming to know when the end would come, and the Scriptures give us the truth plainly, not concealed for a few illuminati in secret codes and mathematical formulae. When May passed without incident, JUNE 18, 2011
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Camping’s even larger blunder By John McCandlish PhilliPs Millions were made aware of Harold Camping’s declaration that May 21 would bring believers the joy of the rapture, with fierce judgments falling upon all others, as the media picked this up massively in the week preceding its failure, and followed through immediately after. But relatively few, even among Bible-honoring Christians, are aware of another date that Camping gave out, attaching to it an astounding conclusion. May 21, 1988, he had declared, was the day on which God, utterly weary of the lapsing of the churches from revealed truth, handed them all over to Satan. As a consequence of that act, all organized churches on the face of the earth, he declared, came under direct Satanic dominance, and all true believers were obliged to depart from them. He set out this delusional dogma formally and at length in his 2002 book, The End of the Church Age . . . and After. That means that all pastors in all churches everywhere became, even if unwittingly, servants of Satan. “Satan is ruling in all the churches and those dear people and those pastors are emissaries of Satan,” Mr. Camping intones in a voice clip on his Family Radio website: “All the elect will come out of the church. Those that remain in the churches are under the wrath of God.” This sweeping promulgation leaves multiplied millions of believers out of any valid expectation of heaven, and it comes perilously close to making obeying his self-generated edict a condition of salvation. This is also why, after he discovered this, he took off the air a good many excellent Bible broadcasters who had long been featured on his Family Radio, bringing on a few others who agreed with him, and featuring such notables as the late Robert A. Cook and Duane E. Spencer, whose saving virtue was that they had died before Camping had declared all churches to be apostate, and were therefore still safe to be heard. In his first major statement concerning the rather quiet arrival and departure of May 21, aired on Family Radio’s “Open Forum” program on May 23, Camping resoundingly reaffirmed the accuracy of his prediction, saying that much of what he had set forth had actually occurred, though not as evidently as he had earlier expected.
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ApOcALypse “We had,” he amazingly asserted, “all our NOt NOW: dates correct. On May 21, 2011, God again Partiers gather brought judgment day on the whole world. . . .” to celebrate the And Camping had the temerity to declare non-destruction of the world yet another date, not an entirely new one in predicted by his scheme of things, for the calamitous final Camping. judgment of this world and its incineration by fervent heat. “On Oct. 21, 2011,” he said, “the Bible clearly warns that the world will be destroyed.” “This is what the Bible says,” he asserted, “It all comes from the Bible, the Bible, the Bible, the Bible.” He failed to add that it all comes exclusively to him, and to those who pick it up from him. This meets the classic definition of “private interpretation” of which the Scriptures plainly warn in 2 Peter 1:20. Asked about the damage done to individuals who, accepting his prediction, acted on it by changing plans, giving money away, or spending it on furthering Camping’s campaign of public warning, he chiefly brushed this aside. “People cope,” he said, remarking that the damage done to individuals by this nation’s economic collapse was very much greater than any done by his utterances, and that people had survived that, as they will this. Camping, whose earlier achievements as an executive managing Family Radio, which he co-founded, were notable, resulting in broadcasting of exceedingly high quality for decades, would appear to meet all the tests of a false prophet. That he is now permitted to continue airing his astonishing absurdities—and declaring his Oct. 21, 2011, date for ultimate judgment and the end of the world—represents a gross failure by others in responsible positions at Family Radio, including its board of corporate directors, to act to curb him. Could this failure be the fruit, not of love for the man, but of a fear of him as the chief executive? On what is this unceasing tolerance of utter doctrinal falsity, and his declaring of epochal dispensational changes, based?
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Tablet computers, such as Apple’s iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab (which runs on Google’s Android platform), have made serious waves in the magazine publishing industry over the past year. The shape and capabilities of tablets provide a platform for magazines to produce high-quality, full-color digital issues, often with added features impossible in the paper version (such as video, audio, and animated graphs), and then automatically “push” the new issues out to subscribers. And unlike books, which are meant to be read and then kept, magazines are designed to be disposable; digital versions help cut down on the paper waste—which also cuts down on printing costs. Several companies got into the business early. Publisher Conde Nast currently makes five titles available for the iPad, including Golf Digest, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, for a . subscription fee. And the Galaxy Tab is getting in on the action: Next Issue Media, a consortium of the four biggest magazine publishers and News Corp., will release titles for the device. It recently previewed titles including Esquire, Popular Mechanics, Fitness, Parents, Fortune, and Time. (’s own iPad app was recently added to the App Store and will soon offer subscriptions, as well.) —A.W.
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The viral disease rinderpest, or “cattle plague,” has become the first known animal disease to be eradicated from the earth, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health in Paris. The highly contagious disease doesn’t affect humans but has devastated cattle herds since Roman times, killing 80 percent or more of its clovenhoofed hosts. A 19th century outbreak in Africa resulted in a famine that wiped out a third of Ethiopia’s human population. Rinderpest has never been found in the Western Hemisphere. The last known outbreak was in Kenya in 2001. Following a vaccination campaign, rinderpest is the second disease believed to be successfully eliminated. The first was smallpox, last seen in 1977. —D.J.D.
Chilling trial In Italy, a judge has decided to allow six seis mologists and a government official to be tried for manslaughter following an April 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people in the city of L’Aquila. A week before the quake, at a press conference assembled to report on recent tremors in the area, the official had said the sci entists assured him there was “no danger” imminent. The seismologists later denied they ever gave such an assurance, but the city pros ecutor says their risk assessment resulted in “incomplete, imprecise and contradictory public information” that they failed to correct. When the seismologists were first indicted last year, over 5,000 scientists throughout the world condemned the charges—which carry 12year jail sentences—as “completely unfounded” in an open letter. Earthquakes are notoriously unpre dictable. Scientists fear the trial could have a chilling effect on other researchers. —D.J.D.
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Thank you for the enlightening article. A Bible translation that blurs the deity of Jesus Christ and a discipleship strategy that urges continued conformity to many patterns of Islam is not Good News for Muslims. It is easy for me to make such statements as a Westerner whose life is not daily threatened for professing Jesus, but to soften the offense of the gospel in any cultural context is to shrink back from declaring the whole counsel of God.
It is long overdue for the devious practices of the Insider Movements and “Muslim-friendly translations” to be exposed. As one who primarily ministers to Arabic-speaking Muslims and has had to deal firsthand with these materials and those who support them, I commend you for around the world writing a biblically based article.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit is another example of an idea that sounds good, but the people I know who receive it are selfemployed or small business owners who hide income to qualify for this program. Maybe I’m cynical or it’s the people I know, but government handouts seem to be invitations for fraud, lying, and stealing. Jonestown, Texas
The headline says is a program many conservatives can support, but it is designed to redistribute wealth. In addition to problems with fraud, the way the law is currently written will also discourage many lower-income people from getting married. Christians should be concerned about the poor, but is a huge government check at tax time the answer?
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“Giving (up) the tithe” ( ) In vain I looked in this story for a reference to Corinthians :: “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly
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I am disappointed in your unbalanced treatment of a very important topic. You suggested that these translators “remove phrases” from the Bible, but supporters would say that they are seeking to accurately communicate the meaning in the original inspired Greek text. These materials also often use “paratext” such as footnotes, glossaries, and so on to communicate terms and concepts that the audience finds difficult to understand, especially in the case of kinship terminology. Ottawa, Ontario
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“A nation of Terrys” (May 7) This column was spot-on. One reason for so many slackers that you didn’t mention is that men who can get sex outside of marriage see no need for marriage. Marriage has a civilizing effect on men and women, encouraging responsibility and provision for the resulting children. Skipping marriage sets off a perverse domino effect. MEliSSa brock
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These masked slackers have roamed American society for decades. The label “New Lower Class” and the reasons for its emergence were clever and compelling. This column also resonated with me because I sometimes found myself in that role. By the grace of God those storms are long behind me now. This problem can only be fixed by God. He is the antidote for struggling and decimated families and churches. cHriStopHEr adaMS
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Notable CDs ( ) How can “Just the Way You Are,” a song about acceptance, be dismissed as “smug” while “Only the Good Die Young,” a song that mocks a young girl’s faith and chastity while trying to solicit sex from her, is endorsed as Billy Joel’s most “dramatically effective”? Thirty-four years after this song was written, we are still reaping the bitter fruits of the sexual revolution.
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“Turning 65” ( ) I have met a few older people who made me feel as if I were in the company of a present-day Simeon or Anna. Their godly characters were clearly the product of faithful and joyful endurance in past trials. Their long years may not be decorated with impressive achievements, but they made me realize that there would be no retirement in Christian life. Butte, Mont.
“Steadfast heart” ( ) Daniel James Devine erred when stating that the No. killer of Americans is heart disease. The No. killer of Americans is abortion. For perspective, the census lists only nine cities (starting with Dallas) with populations larger than the . million babies aborted annually, and eight states with smaller populations.
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Come as a child when praying and heeding God of the Aramaic sounds actually formed on the lips of our Savior during His time on earth: “talitha cumi,” “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani”—and one other: “Abba.” How did only these trickle down to us intact? In the case of Abba, might it not be that the apostles were so startled by their Master’s intimate manner of address to God that a buzz about it made its way finally to Paul (Romans :)? No one in history had ever talked to Yahweh like that. Abba is not only familiar, it is childlike. I was married long enough to a Korean to detect which of three levels of address he was employing in conversation. There was one you reserved for your elders and betters, one for your peers, and one for your children or servants. Jesus came to God as a child to a father. “Abba” is like “Papa.” In a subtle signal to His disciples that their relationship with God had now changed for all times, Jesus told Mary Magdalene after His resurrection: “Go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God’” (John :). They would not have missed the import of this redundancy. Though it was unthinkable to any sane Israelite, Jesus’ greeting was permission to imitate Him in coming to Yahweh as His child. And sonship has its privileges. Jesus Himself had always shown a marked preference for the company of childlike people, and it was they who got most access. The apostles’ common denominator seems to have been absence of guile: “Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, ‘Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit’” (John :). (Nathanael had shortly before blurted out his true opinion of Nazarenes.) Coming to God like a child means having very little mind-mouth barrier. A child blurts out; he comes to his father with real concerns, not faux issues. Let us notice the places our mind wanders off to in prayer—and follow it. Break down the firewall between presentable and unpresentable matters Email: aseu@worldmag.com
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and bring Him to your secret gardens of fantasy, pain, and fear. Coming to God like a child means asking God for a lot of things. If we have stopped asking God for a lot of things, that is a bad sign, not a good sign. It may be not so much that we are mature as that we are unbelieving. Jesus asked the blind beggars, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Matthew :, Mark :). “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it” (John :). “How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him” (Luke :). Ask Me for gold refined in the fire (Revelation :). Ask Me! Jesus, though a grown man, did and said nothing on His own but only what He heard from the Father (John :,; :; :-). You can trace this trait through the Gospel of John. By this we learn that childlike father-son intimacy can exist alongside clear lines of authority. Sixty students were in my third-grade class, six rows of -year-olds. You could hear a pin drop. About years ago, my husband’s Korean nephew lived with us for a few months. When Young would call him, he came running, no matter where in the house he was. His uncle never troubled himself to raise his voice. This required Jang Wook to be in constant vigilance for even the suspicion of a summons. Jesus bids us develop an ear for the Spirit’s leading. As it was for Jang, so for us practice makes perfect. A child is lowly, and “the Lord . . . regards the lowly, but the haughty He knows from afar” (Psalm :). I want to be regarded by the Lord, so I cock my ear for His call and come running. His Word is my delight, so I press in to obey, like any child who wants her father’s smile. He says, “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew :). I say, “Very well, then, Abba, I come as a child. Receive me as a child and hold my hand.” A JUNE 18, 2011
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for the years I’ve been a Christian, I agree with those who say the call to preach is the highest honor there is. It can also be the most frustrating. Think of the Parable of the Sower: Three-fourths of the seed lands by the road, or on stony ground, or amid thorns. Three-fourths of the sower’s work is wasted. That parable, like so many Jesus presented, is not an icebreaker anecdote, a happy story to put listeners in a cozy, receptive mood. Jesus told iceberg parables, not icebreakers. An iceberg parable is a story that can sink a ship as big as the Titanic. The Titanic had its first and last voyage across the Atlantic nearly a century ago. It advertised itself as unsinkable. Many non-Christians think of themselves as unsinkable. Many of us who have been Christians for a long time also start thinking of ourselves as unsinkable. I can get prideful and feel like a know-itall. I need an iceberg parable to penetrate my hull. Jesus knew how to ratchet up the tension in His parables: As Matthew : tells us, when Jesus spoke to crowds, “He said nothing to them without a parable.” A young man turns his back on home and learns a hard lesson: Will he return to his father? A woman loses a coin and desperately searches for it: Will she find it? A man trades all he has for one thing more precious: Has he acted with discernment? Jesus brings us a wake-up call, not a snooze button. I am a fan of strong expository preaching. I do not want to emerge into a world where movies or plays or purportedly sacred dancing substitute for it. Cute anecdotes that provide a break from biblical themes don’t cut it, either. Jesus practiced seamless storytelling: His parables propelled His themes of creation, fall, and redemption. Today, some emergents want to scuttle sermons. On the other side, some pastors who emphasize expository, exegetical preaching are reluctant to tell stories. But I want stories within sermons, parables that are icebergs designed to rip open self-satisfaction.
An editor ripped apart my self-satisfaction years ago and taught me about the importance of story. Back then a Fortune freelance assignment took me to Washington, D.C., where I worked a week of -hour days interviewing people in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Proud of the effort, wanting readers to have all the information I had ferreted out, wanting the editor to know how hard I had worked, my article draft was full of quotations showing all my research. The editor rightfully demanded a total rewrite, instructing me to tell a story, not just give readers quotations and factoids. Some preachers make similar mistakes, presenting a string of remarks from theologians or literary lights. But a sermon that could be in a lecture hall would be better given there, not in a sanctuary. Preachers have an honorably tough job because they need to hold the attention of people at all different levels. And yet, if stories are merely attempts to hold attention, preachers are not following Jesus in telling stories that wake us from the slumber in our souls. His parables showed how God is in charge. A mustard seed that could be eaten by birds becomes a tree in which birds take shelter. Astounding. God works His way quietly, sometimes when we’re not even noticing, like leaven. God redeems. God revives. God rescues. God restores. Happy-talk stories are satisfying at times, but I don’t believe they belong in sermons. The seamless stories that belong in a sermon—I’ll give some more letter-R alliteration—are those that emphasize repentance, reformation, and resolution. Stories of those who welcome the wounds of prophetic preaching because they are so needy. Stories of those who finally grasp the need for godly change. Stories of people so transformed by Jesus that they walk fearlessly up to the doors of enemies. So a sermon is more than information: Information does not save. Iceberg parables connect to the whole man, not just the head. Sermons need to pierce. Preachers are God’s servants in cutting open chests so that He can perform a heart transplant. To assist in such an operation is the highest honor there is. A Email: molasky@worldmag.com
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