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PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS Joel Belz Pitifully taught Most Americans know absolutely nothing about the Hobby Lobby case
thousands of respondents, would be any more Demonstrators who do understand the case celebrate the Hobby Lobby decision encouraging. For the record, here’s what I was looking for: e Hobby Lobby decision held basically that the govern- ment cannot require a closely held private business to provide specifi ed aspects of healthcare for its employ- ees if such provision violates the company’s religious conscience, so long as those specifi c aspects of care remain otherwise available to the employees. And the court specifi cally based its decision not on the First Amendment of the Constitution’s “Bill of Rights” but on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of . But the nation’s media provided precious little help to the American public in reaching a clear understanding of the decision. When President I , the fi rst details Obama (through his press secretary), presumed of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Senate on June , that the issues were nuanced Majority Leader Harry Reid all blasted the Hobby >> enough to need some careful explaining. So Lobby decision as an expression of conservatives’ just how confused might the American public be? continuing “War on Women,” most of the networks, And would the mainstream media off er genuine help the newspapers, and the magazines gave such on that front—or would they just make matters worse? spokesmen free rein. No challenging questions, few To fi nd out, I decided to pull out my favorite follow-ups. Here and there, a minor exception—like research tool—a visit to the sidewalk in front of my the liberal Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, local Walmart. My wife reminded me that, with no who cautioned his colleagues that the Hobby Lobby Hobby Lobby store here in Asheville, I might end up decision was “not as radical” as some of them were with a lot of blank stares. Folks simply wouldn’t saying. But Tribe was almost alone in his media know what I was talking about. I hoped for a little quarters, fl ashing such an amber caution light. more civic interest and engagement. Much more typical was the claim, and this assertion My wife, though, was right. Only four of the fi rst was aired in only slightly varied form at least half a people I asked had a clue what I meant when I dozen times on MSNBC and PBS, that “this ruling asked: “What would you say was the main issue in allows bosses to force their personal beliefs on employ- the Hobby Lobby case that the U.S. Supreme Court ees.” Or try the colorful conclusion that after such a ruled on earlier this week?” Of those four, none was decision, we can expect next to see the court carving close to getting things right. Instead, all four out special permission for Amish farmers to sell answered by asking something like: “Was that the unpasteurized milk. Scare language was everywhere. decision where the government said contraceptives All of which is why the random gathering of are illegal?” people in front of Walmart last week tended to be so I’ll admit that asking all these random shoppers tongue-tied. e nation’s media, whose duty it is to for a detailed analysis of a complex court case might provide thoughtful information, had instead served be expecting a bit much. And maybe the sight of a up a steady diet of misinformation. And having been white-haired septuagenarian quizzing ursday so pitifully taught, the people were now quite unpre- morning Walmart shoppers about contraceptives pared to identify something so simple as the main was a little off -putting. issue defi ning the Hobby Lobby case. Sadly, the few But I wasn’t pursuing a carefully researched legal who got close still tended to get it very wrong. MONSIVAIS brief. Just get the topic approximately right, I asked. It’s a pretty rare thing that when teachers get Yet percent of my sample couldn’t even discuss things terribly wrong, their students do any better. MARTINEZ the matter; and the other percent got it all wrong. I’ll try to remember that the next time I head out for
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15 NEWS OPENER.indd 4 7/9/14 12:01 PM JULY 4: Demonstrators from both sides of the immigration debate confront each other outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, Calif. Demonstrators had gathered where the agency was foiled earlier this week in an attempt to bus in and process some of the immigrants who had flooded the Texas border with Mexico.
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Thursday, June Supreme determinations Pro-lifers rejoiced as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Massachusetts law that had established a -foot buff er zone between sidewalk counselors and abortion facilities.
Chief Justice John UTAH: RICK BOWMER/AP • PRO-LIFERS: MCNAMEE/GETTY WIN IMAGES • SOCCER: JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • BIG GULP: 7-ELEVEN • HULKA: LORI VAN BUREN/ALBANY TIMES UNION/AP Roberts, writing for the majority, said buff er zones that bar access to public property like sidewalks do not pass constitutional muster. He did not challenge more fl exible buff er zone laws, however, such as one in Colorado that requires protestors to keep feet away from women entering abortion centers. In a separate ruling, the justices Wednesday, June rebuked President Obama for making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in while Congress was not offi cially in recess.
Dictated FIFA bites back Soccer offi cials at FIFA gave change Uruguayan star striker Luis Suárez the harshest World Cup punishment e th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared in history for biting the shoulder of Utah’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban opponent Giorgio Chiellini during unconstitutional, claiming homosexual couples Uruguay’s Tuesday match with Italy. have a “fundamental right” to marry. It was the Suárez (left) and Chiellini ey fi ned Suárez , and sus- fi rst time the Court of Appeals had upheld gay pended him from the remainder of marriage, an issue likely destined for the U.S. the World Cup in Brazil and subsequent games until October. Meanwhile, Supreme Court. Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr., one of the U.S. men’s team drew unprecedented numbers of American TV viewers three judges on the appeals court panel, dis- and stayed alive until the tournament’s round of . ey ultimately fell to sented: “We should resist the temptation to Belgium - in overtime July —though U.S. goalkeeper Tim become philosopher-kings, imposing our views Howard made saves, a World Cup record. (See p. .) under the guise of the Fourteenth
Amendment,” he wrote. e same day, a fed- VIDEO/AP MILITANT AL-BAGHDADI: • BARRIA/EPA/LANDOV ORLANDO WESOLOWSKI: • HOSLET/AP OLIVIER POROSHENKO: eral judge struck down Indiana’s same-sex A Coke and a smile marriage ban. Over gay couples in the New York City’s attempt to outlaw large sodas came to an end state received marriage licenses before an after offi cials lost their fi nal appeal. Former Mayor Michael appeals court blocked the decision, pending Bloomberg’s anti-obesity policy would have banned the sale of review. e following week, a federal judge sugary drinks larger than ounces in city restaurants, stadiums, struck down Kentucky’s gay marriage ban. street carts, and theaters. But the New York State Court of Appeals said the city’s Board of Health overstepped its authority in imposing the rule.
Graduated George Hulka Jr. received a Bronze Star and survived the D-Day invasion at Normandy during his decorated military career. Now at age , he added another accomplishment: high school graduate. Hulka went to a one-room school until eighth grade, but in the s high school wasn’t available in rural New York. A state program allows World War II, Korea, and Vietnam veterans to receive a diploma. Hulka graduated in June with his -year-old great-grandson and a -year-old World War II veteran, omas Smith.
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UTAH: RICK BOWMER/AP • PRO-LIFERS: MCNAMEE/GETTY WIN IMAGES • SOCCER: JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • BIG GULP: 7-ELEVEN • HULKA: LORI VAN BUREN/ALBANY TIMES UNION/AP in four villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least . e villages were near the town of Chibok in a largely Christian enclave where Boko Haram fi ghters kidnapped schoolgirls in April. Over , people have died this year in Boko Haram–linked bombings and violence. Some good news: On the fi rst weekend in July at least kidnapped women and girls (not the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok) escaped from the terrorist group.
Friday, June Ukraine signs President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine signed a long-awaited trade agreement with the European Union, waving off Russian hostility to the deal. It was the same trade agreement Poroshenko’s predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, had failed to sign last November, setting in motion protests in Kiev, confl ict between pro-Western and pro-Russian Ukrainians, and the Russian takeover of the Crimean peninsula. Caliphate claim Former Soviet republics Moldova and Georgia signed EU trade agreements alongside Sunni Islamist insurgents sweeping Ukraine. Four days after the deal, Poroshenko launched a new military off ensive through northern and western Iraq against pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine after they ignored demands to declared their organization, the Islamic relinquish control of border checkpoints during a cease-fi re. State in Iraq and Syria, the center of a new caliphate, or global Islamic empire. e pretentious announcement on the Archbishop removed fi rst day of Ramadan called on other e Vatican removed an archbishop and former church Muslim groups to pledge allegiance to
POROSHENKO: OLIVIER HOSLET/AP • WESOLOWSKI: ORLANDO BARRIA/EPA/LANDOV • AL-BAGHDADI: MILITANT VIDEO/AP MILITANT AL-BAGHDADI: • BARRIA/EPA/LANDOV ORLANDO WESOLOWSKI: • HOSLET/AP OLIVIER POROSHENKO: ambassador, Jozef Wesolowski, , from the priesthood leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—a demand afterafter an internal investigation found him guilty of sexu- likely to kindle further infi ghting with ally abusing children. Wesolowski is the highest-ranking rival extremist groups like al-Qaeda. Vatican offi cial to be investigated for child sex abuse. A day later, the Obama administration He has two months to appeal, and he faces a criminal announced it would send U.S. trial in Vatican City. In May the Holy See said it had troops to Iraq. at brought to about defrocked priests in its investigation of sex abuse. the U.S. military personnel It has not defrocked any bishops for covering up sexual assigned to provide logistical and abuse and moving predator priests to diff erent parishes. moral support to the Iraqi army.
Died Linda Rolain, a woman suing over Nevada’s Obamacare health exchange, died on June of complica- tions from her illness. Rolain, who had a brain tumor, was part of a -person class-action lawsuit against the contractor that set up her state’s health exchange, Nevada Health Link. Rolain’s family said her tumor was treatable when it was fi rst diagnosed in , but it became terminal in the spring while she was dealing with enrollment problems and waiting on her coverage to take eff ect. Rolain, , fi nally had surgery in May.
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Tuesday, July MCDONALD: DENNIS BRACK/BLACK STAR/GETTY IMAGES • PROTESTER: GM JAMES FASSINGER/CORBIS/AP • ISRAEL: BAZ RATNER/AP • ZAMPERINI: MATT MEINDL/USC DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS SCIENCES/AP AND Flared confl ict Israeli forces launched airstrikes against militant targets in Gaza in what they said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket attacks. e strikes came the morning after searchers found the bodies of three kidnapped Israeli teen- agers beneath a pile of rocks. “Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, blaming the killings on the Palestinian terrorist organization. Public anger over the teens’ deaths sparked violent protests and possibly a revenge murder: Suspected Jewish vigilantes abducted off the street a Obama and McDonald Palestinian teen and burned him alive. Tensions rose to precarious Monday, June heights as the two sides exchanged VA replacement retaliatory rocket fi re. President Obama announced his surprise pick for the new secretary of the Department of Veterans Aff airs—not a career military general but former Procter & Gamble chief executive Robert McDonald, a Republican donor. Although McDonald spent fi ve years in the Army, he has spent the past primarily at P&G, where he worked to stream- line the company and cut costs. “Bob is an expert at making organizations better,” Netanyahu eulogizes teenagers said Obama. If the Senate confi rms him, McDonald would replace Eric Shinseki, who resigned in May amid the VA scandal over long healthcare waiting lists. Bogus bills? More recalls Federal regulators accused telecom General Motors recalled an addi- giant T-Mobile of receiving hundreds tional . million vehicles for an of millions of dollars from mobile text- ignition switch problem that could ing services its customers never autho- cause the engine to shut off unex- rized. Many customers unknowingly pectedly. e company put safety paid . a month for third-party recalls into high gear after receiving texting services providing horoscopes a million federal penalty for or celebrity gossip, with T-Mobile tak- ignoring ignition switch defects ing a cut of the fee, but the Federal linked to deaths. e automaker Trade Commission said the company has recalled million vehicles had received enough customer com- this year, but buyers don’t seem to plaints to know the services were mind: June sales for GM were up likely bogus. T-Mobile called the FTC
percent from the year before. claim “unfounded and without merit.” VERKOUTEREN/AP DANA KHATTALA: CHINA• AID SHAOJIE: • FAJER/AP IBRAHIM: AL • IMAGES WILSON/GETTY MARK ARTHUR: HURRICANE • LEE/AP WILFREDO SIGN:
Died Former Olympian and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini died on July at age . Zamperini rose to international fame with the biography Unbroken, which remains No. on e New York Times bestseller list. After competing in the Olympics, Zamperini survived a plane crash, days adrift in the Pacifi c, and
two years of brutality in a Japanese prison camp. He later professed faith in Christ at a Billy Graham crusade CREDIT and forgave those who tortured him. A feature length fi lm about Zamperini’s life will open Dec. .
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15 NEWS 1 & 2.indd 8 7/9/14 10:00 AM MCDONALD: DENNIS BRACK/BLACK STAR/GETTY IMAGES • PROTESTER: GM JAMES FASSINGER/CORBIS/AP • ISRAEL: BAZ RATNER/AP • ZAMPERINI: MATT MEINDL/USC DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS SCIENCES/AP AND Friday, July Arthur arrives A Category hurricane postponed the beach and barbecue plans of thousands of Americans vaca- tioning on the East Coast for the Fourth of July— and prompted the Boston Pops Orchestra to perform its holiday concert a day early. Hurricane Arthur made landfall in North Carolina u r s d a y night with mph winds, causing over , residents to lose power. But it weakened quickly on Friday and moved northwest, dumping rain on Atlantic states and leaving minimal damage.
Thursday, July Job prospects A jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department was even better than economists expected: e United States added , nonfarm jobs in June, while the unemployment rate dropped to . percent—the lowest since September . Five straight months of strong jobs numbers suggested the economy’s health is improving. At news of the rosy report, the Dow Jones industrial average traded above , for the fi rst time in history. Analysts noted, however, that the labor force participation rate is unchanged at a low . percent for the third month in a row.
Stuck in Sudan Chinese pastor jailed After escaping a death sentence for A Chinese court sentenced Zhang apostasy, Sudanese Christian Meriam Shaojie, a Christian pastor from Ibrahim faced a fresh lawsuit from Henan province, to years in relatives trying to convict her of prison for alleged fraud and leaving Islam. e new suit aims to “gathering crowds to disturb prove Meriam was born to a Muslim public order,” according to family, although Ibrahim has the pastor’s lawyer. Zhang’s previously testifi ed she was raised a supporters say the charges are Christian. Ibrahim, her husband, and fabricated, coming amid a Communist Party her two children took refuge at the crackdown on the growing Christian church. U.S. Embassy in Khartoum after Authorities arrested Zhang last November over authorities blocked them from what church members said was a government boarding a plane and accused them attempt to seize church land. (For more on the
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Pleaded Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected ringleader of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, pleaded not guilty during a brief June court appearance in Washington, D.C. At the conclusion, the presiding judge told Khattala—who had a public defender—he had been advised
CREDIT of his “constitutional rights.” Republicans have criticized the Obama administration for taking months to make an arrest and sending Khattala to a civilian court instead of a military tribunal.
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Monday, July Concussion deal UKRAINE: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • PELAGORNIS SANDERSI FOSSIL: COURTESY DANIEL KSEPKA VIA BRUCE MUSEUM/AP • KVITOVA: MATTHEW STOCKMAN/GETTY IMAGES • XU: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES U.S. District Judge Anita Brody approved a long-awaited deal between the NFL and former football players who may have suff ered concussions during games. To satisfy the judge, the league removed a million cap on injury payouts. Under the deal, still subject to a fairness hearing scheduled for November, former players with conditions like Lou Gehrig’s disease or dementia would receive thousands or millions of dollars in compensation for brain injury claims, depending on their age and condition.
Saturday & Sunday, July - Rebels fall back Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said his army had reached a “breakthrough” in its fi ght against rebels in the country’s east, recapturing the city of Slovyansk Saturday, a former stronghold for the pro-Russian separatists. e rebels regrouped in Donetsk, a city of million, where the battle could take the form of street-to-street combat. Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to answer openly the insurgents’ plea for intervention. “We will fi ght to the end because we have nowhere left to retreat,” one rebel told the Associated Press. e fi ghting has killed since April. Big bird Wimbledon winners A scientist said he had identifi ed the Czech tennis champion Petra Kvitova largest extinct fl ying bird on record, won her second women’s singles title at Pelagornis sandersi, a fossil with a Wimbledon Saturday by trouncing wingspan of feet or more—about Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in a -, - twice as large as an albatross. Study match that lasted only minutes. Media author Daniel Ksepka had to run darling Bouchard, , was the fi rst computer simulations to ensure the Canadian to reach a Grand Slam fi nal. On gigantic bird was capable of liftoff . Sunday, Novak Djokovic battled and Indeed, the long wings made the bird prevailed against the player with more “capable of highly effi cient gliding,” Grand Slam titles () than any other, Ksepka wrote in Proceedings of the -year-old Roger Federer, for the men’s National Academy of Sciences. e singles title. Djokovic, from Serbia, has fossil was originally found in won seven Grand Slam titles. Federer Charleston, S.C., in , and has
plans to continue playing next year. been sitting in a museum drawer. IMAGES JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GETTY SHEVARDNADZE: • OWEN/AP CLIFF FOXX: • HANDOUT HEADPHONES: BEATS • DIPACE/AP TOM GLAVINE: & MADDUX • LESSER/AP S. ERIK TSA: • ZAK/AP RONALD FLAG: IRANIAN • BABA/AP EYAD GAZA:
Expelled China’s push to root out corruption reached new heights on June : e Communist Party expelled retired military commander Xu Caihou after an internal investigation revealed he took bribes for military promotions. Xu’s future now rests in the hands of prosecutors, who will open a criminal
investigation. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who took offi ce last year, has promised to clean up CREDIT the Communist Party and reform the country’s military.
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Of the hundreds of food trucks that litter San Francisco parking lots, one new restaurant on wheels is catering to a diff erent breed of customer. Milo’s Kitchen, a dog snack division of Big Heart Pet Brands, rolled out its dog food truck into San Francisco on June City leaders in Portsmouth, Va., . But the stay by the bay was short-lived. e dog snack are wondering: How can a city auditor do his job if he goes more than truck, which off ered not only snacks but family portraits too, a year without logging into the city’s fi nancial records system? traveled to Los Angeles and San Diego in early July. From there,
According to a Virginian-Pilot newspaper report, Portsmouth City the truck will embark on a cross-country tour with stops in ILLUSTRATION: KIREG BARRIE • SWETT: ERIC GINNARD/RAPID CITY JOURNAL/AP • MILO’S KITCHEN: CHICAGO VIA TRIBUNE TWITTER • WIG: FACEBOOK • DIPLOMA: HANDOUT Auditor Jesse Andre omas had not released a single audit since Phoenix, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh. taking the position months ago. What’s more, the city offi cial only logged on to the city’s fi nancial system twice in the fi rst few weeks of taking the job, and never since, according to records obtained by the paper. e same records indicate omas often goes months without scheduling a meeting or appointment. “If those things are factual,” Sometimes the best thing to do is not Councilman Bill Moody told the paper, “then we need to meet as a check Facebook during a burglary. council and make a decision on his future.” According to police in South St. Paul, Minn., alleged burglar Nicholas Wig, , logged into the popular social media website during a June burglary. And then he left without logging out. Arriving home, owner James Wood noticed not only that his If you’ve got the money, he’s got the town. Investors with house had been robbed, but that the perpetrator left his , to spend can buy up all of Swett, S.D. e ramshackle Facebook account active on Wood’s computer and a bunch of town located close to the Nebraska line used to be home to wet clothes on the fl oor. Wood used the opportunity to call out about residents, but in recent decades, the townspeople Wig by making a post on his page—and off ered to give the moved to bigger South Dakota towns. Now Swett is wholly alleged thief back his wet clothes. Incredibly, Wig off ered to owned by Lance Benson, who put the entire town up for sale return later that night to the home and trade Wood’s cell phone with a Rapid City, S.D., real estate broker. And though only two for his jeans. When he arrived for the trade, police arrested him. people offi cially live in Swett, the town’s bar, Swett Tavern, attracts a number of patrons from nearby ranches and farms. Even the best need proofread- ers. Northwestern University’s highly respected Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications in June issued about diplomas that misspelled the word “integrated” by leaving out the “n.” is isn’t the fi rst embar- rassing diploma mistake by an American institute of higher learning. In , the University of Wisconsin-Madison misspelled “Wisconsin” on nearly , diplomas, and last
year Radford University misspelled “Virginia” on its diplomas. BARRIE KRIEG ILLUSTRATION: • RING:WAOW WEDDING • SANCYA/AP PAUL CORVETTE: • SVETLITSKY/AP SERGEI DOLPHIN:
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15 QUICK TAKES.indd 16 7/9/14 9:06 AM Since , George Talley of Detroit has been telling friends and family about his prized Chevrolet Corvette. But since the day in July when a thief stole the Vette from a Detroit street corner, Talley has spoken of the car only in the past tense. at all changed on June when Talley received a call from Mississippi. “I get a call from AAA telling me you have a Corvette in Mississippi, come and get it,” Talley told WXYZ. “I’ve heard it was running, it had , miles on it, and right now, it’s at the police station in Hattiesburg, [Miss.].” Police there don’t know the full chain of custody—they were just able to track down the original owner years after he reported it stolen thanks to the vehicle’s VIN number. ILLUSTRATION: KIREG BARRIE • SWETT: ERIC GINNARD/RAPID CITY JOURNAL/AP • MILO’S KITCHEN: CHICAGO VIA TRIBUNE TWITTER • WIG: FACEBOOK • DIPLOMA: HANDOUT Russia has returned some of Ukraine’s valuable military hardware since annexing Crimea earlier this year. But Ukrainian offi cials are insisting that Russia is holding back one valuable asset: Ukraine’s pod of naval reconnaissance dolphins. “ e military dolphins need to be returned to our country in the same It’s been fi ve years since Lois Matykowski lost her way that Russia returned Ukraine’s wedding ring. e Stevens Point, Wis., resident seized military equipment,” fi rst deputy spent hours on hands and knees looking for the head of the Henichesk Regional State special band. In June, Matykowski and her wedding Administration Dmitry Yunusov said. e ring were reunited—though she may now want it Soviet Union originally began training cleaned. at’s because Matykowski found the dolphins to spot land mines and enemy ring in a puddle of her dog’s vomit. According divers in the s. But since the breakup to Tucker the dog’s veterinarian, Tucker of the U.S.S.R., Ukraine had administrated probably gobbled up the jewelry piece years the dolphin program in Crimea. Defense ago. e vet said it may have dislodged in a analysts suspect Russia will not be so recent incident where Tucker gobbled up a willing to return the pod, however. popsicle—stick and all.
ere’s a new name for students enrolled in Vancouver, Canada, public schools. On June , the school board approved a policy change adding transgender pronouns to the schools’ offi cial lexicon. Henceforth, teachers will be told to use transgender pronouns like “xe, xem, and xyr” to replace “he, him, and his” provided the student identifi es xemself as transgendered. e Vancouver School Board approved the measure, and also seeks to institute gender neutral bathrooms at some schools. DOLPHIN: SERGEI SVETLITSKY/AP • CORVETTE: PAUL SANCYA/AP • WEDDING RING:WAOW • ILLUSTRATION: KRIEG BARRIE KRIEG ILLUSTRATION: • RING:WAOW WEDDING • SANCYA/AP PAUL CORVETTE: • SVETLITSKY/AP SERGEI DOLPHIN:
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Earth to Echo is meant to be an adventure movie for >> kids, but only succeeds at being a dull ET knock-off with no real suspense or characters to care about. The film clearly wants to communicate something heartfelt about the sense of home a group of close friends can create, conveyed through the high-concept means of a stranded alien trying to get home. But it tells that story without charm, nuance, or even mystery. In the film, three boys (all unknown actors) unite on their DOCUMENTARY last night together before their respective families leave a neighborhood seized for a new freeway. The boys’ interaction 112 Weddings is authentic, in that their dialogue is immature and witless, by Sophia Lee though the late addition of a female character makes no 112 Weddings is an HBO documentary that may narrative sense and follows >> scare single people away from marriage—until their every cliché in the screen- God-given desire to love and be loved prevails. writing playbook. Filmmaker Doug Block shoots weddings on the side. In its sole sign of inno- Over a period of 20 years, he has shot 112 weddings, get- vation, the movie tracks the ting intimate access to ordinary individuals experiencing early part of the boys’ jour- the most extraordinary day of their lives. In 112 Weddings, ney via YouTube videos and Block revisits some of these couples and asks: So how’s iPhone texts, until eventu- your happily ever after? ally they discover part of an We first meet Rachel and Paul, married for 13 years, alien ship in the Nevada desert. The shaky amateur shooting who on their wedding day locked glistening eyes as they style—the movie is narratively framed by a heavy-handed stood before the officiate. They say their marriage is great— future voice-over and supposedly filmed by one of the but it’s hard to understand them because they’re constantly boys—is occasionally unbelievable, often jarring, and ulti- talking over each other. mately dull, like watching somebody else’s home videos. Jenn and Augie, married eight years, share the typical Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic worked because he kept troubles: losing sleep over a new baby, a layoff, days-long the focus narrow and slowly built up the relationship arguments. Augie says sometimes he wants to leave—but between alien and kids. Earth to Echo does neither. just for a week and then come back. As he speaks, Jenn Instead, it purports to be a coming-of-age film, a film sits a foot away and wipes tears from her cheeks. about friendship, about feeling invisible, and a genre story Block (who’s been married 28 years) interviews about aliens and government conspiracy (centered on an divorced couples, too. One couple split up after 19 years uninspired Jason Gray-Stanford). “Having a friend light when one day, during a couples therapy session, the wife years away taught us discovered her successful, slimmed-down husband distance is just a state of had been cheating on her. Another divorced screen-
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commenting” and having them pursue what New York Times columnist David ‘Wisdom journalists’ Carr calls “shimmering intellectual Author acknowledges a lack of media objectivity, but his scoops.” e Bible has a diff erent defi nition of BY MARVIN OLASKY solution means more propaganda wisdom. Chapter of Proverbs tells us it begins with “the fear of the L.” S I when Hmm. No objectivity, no fairness, no Chapter explains, “ e L gives the opposition partly accedes to balance: How then shall we report? wisdom; from his mouth come knowl- my view, but misses what’s most Stephens proposes that journalists edge and understanding.” Chapter >> important? “consecrate themselves to insight and nails it down: “Trust in the L with In the s I criticized the main- understanding” and henceforth be all your heart, and do not lean on your stream media fi ction of “objectivity” known as “wisdom journalists.” I can own understanding. In all your ways but wasn’t impressed with the common hear press gangs across the land say- acknowledge him, and he will make alternative, existentialist subjectivity. ing, Wisdom Journalist Gus Grissom. I straight your paths.” My proposed alternative: biblical objec- kinda like the sound of that. Stephens wants journalists to move tivity, based on the realization that God But if journalists are so consecrated— from the fi ve W’s (who-what-when- created the world and knows its Merriam-Webster defi nes that as where-why) to his fi ve I’s: informed, essence, so only He can describe it “dedicated to a sacred purpose”—we intelligent, interesting, insightful, and accurately, and has done so in the Bible. need to ask what “wisdom” means. interpretive. He should have added a e s also brought us e Right Stephens defi nes it as “good sense … sixth: ideological. Stephens compliments S t u ff , a memorable movie about the insight … accumulated learning.” He in passing a couple of nonliberals, but early days of the space program. In it writes that news organizations can heaps repeated praise on the politically Gus Grissom—who would become the gain wisdom by “hiring correct: Eight cheers for the second American in space—asks a individuals with an aca- late Rachel Carson, who did fellow fl yer what the word “astronaut” demic background in the some good but whose anti- means. His friend replies, “Star fi elds upon which they are DDT campaign led to more Voyager.” Grissom responds, “Star malaria in Africa. Nine Voyager Gus Grissom. I kinda like the cheers for New York Times sound of that.” columnist Paul Krugman. In Beyond News: e Future of Ten cheers for Ezra Klein, Journalism (Columbia University Press, the former Washington Post ), infl uential NYU journalism wunderkind. professor Mitchell Stephens notes that But even if the playing fi eld reporters and editors in the late th were not so tilted, reliance on century publicly defended “objective man’s wisdom rather than journalism,” but in the early st God’s makes us shepherdless century “many journalists were fi nally sheep. In the s I argued ready to concede the point.” against journalists who said their Stephens quotes Washington Post ignoring of God was “objective executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. journalism.” Now Stephens acknowledging that “nobody’s objec- opines, “ e main goal of a tive,” but insisting that his reporters twenty-fi rst-century journalism should try to be “fair.” Stephens criti- organization is to fi ll its site with cizes that standard as well, because “we wisdom.” Unless we seek God’s can’t be ‘fair’ to all, anymore than we wisdom, all we have is a new can see the world as it is seen by all.” rationale for propagandizing. Stephens also slams another word Hope remains. Proverbs tells used by post-objectivity editors, us, “If you turn at my reproof, balance, because “there inevitably are behold, I will pour out my spirit a limited number of seats on their to you. … Be not wise in your own seesaw. e range of positions that are eyes; fear the L, and turn
balanced is limited—usually to two. away from evil. It will be healing HANDOUT e range of discussion will thereby to your fl esh and refreshment to SMITH
be circumscribed.” your bones.” A BRIAN
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15 BOOKS.indd 24 7/8/14 9:04 AM NOTABLE BOOKS SPOTLIGHT Time travel books for kids and adults > reviewed by Rush Revere and the First Patriots: Time Travel Adventures with e Time Traveler’s Almanac Exceptional Americans is the sec- Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ond book in a series for kids (ages is anthology pulls together short stories by many well-known -) by radio writers in the time travel subgenre, including H.G. Wells, Ray host Rush Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Douglas Adams, and complements Limbaugh. them with stories by lesser-known authors. e preface is Limbaugh’s con- playfully written, dated , and each section of the book is servative views grouped by trope (Section features experiments) and fi nishes come through with a nonfi ction essay. e book suff ers a painful lack of imagi- unmistakably in nation regarding God and creation, ignores Christian authors like the main voice C.S. Lewis, and includes plenty of disturbing material. But for of the story, well-grounded adults and teens, it also provides a well-charted history teacher panorama of this ever-expanding literary galaxy. pages. Rush Revere. Liberty, the talking AgesAges and up. and time traveling horse, livens up the tale with slapstick antics and e Redcoats Are Coming! AIO occasional potty humor, a la Imagination Station Books (Book 13) Shrek. As these two gallop Marianne Hering and Nancy I. Sanders through history, Revere’s unre- e Redcoats Are Coming, like other Imagination Station markable students tag along to books, provides clean entertainment that reinforces whole- learn truly insightful lessons about some values and familiarizes kids with history. Cousins our country’s founding, friendship, Patrick and Beth travel back to the Revolutionary War to and the cost of freedom. Parents take an important letter to Patrick Henry, all the while facing who want to weigh the series— spies, snakes, and other dangers to complete their mission. and Limbaugh’s presentation of Compared to its predecessors, this book contains far richer the founders’ Christianity—more Christian content and shows how Christian beliefs helped thoroughly, can go to the Summer establish American freedoms. Christian families and educa- Reading Challenge at tors will likely fi nd e Redcoats Are Coming a step up from Redeemedreader.com. —E.W. the similar Magic Tree House series and from previous books in this series. pages. Ages -.
Journey Aaron Becker In this Caldecott Honor Book a young girl creates a door in her wall with a red crayon, then steps through the door and into a world of blue-green watercolor: She draws herself a red boat, then a red balloon, then a red magic carpet to ride. She also wins a bird’s friendship as the plot unfolds, but the real beauty here is the visual artistry, the evocative fl ights of fancy, and the story’s wordless pages, which allow families to create their own stories each time they share the book. Journey melds the artistry of Harold and the Purple Crayon with the imaginative mystery of e Secret Garden. pages. Ages -. e Infi nity Ring: e Iron Empire James Dashner In this seventh book of the Infi nity Ring series, Dak, Sera, and Riq must fi x the last Great Break in history by saving Alexander the Great. To do that they will need help from Aristotle, the founder of their time travel group, before the bad guys can arrive to take down the teens. Dashner’s fast-paced storytell- ing, dramatic action, and pro-democracy insights make this a
HANDOUT winner for young teens. Caution: One character stores an SMITH object in his pants to off end a female character. pages.
BRIAN Ages -.
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15 BOOKS.indd 25 7/3/14 3:18 PM Reviews > Q&A Missing the mark The $20 trillion War on Poverty has barely dented the poverty rate. Expert Jennifer Marshall says we can do better By Marvin Olasky
Jennifer Marshall is poverty. Relational deprivation, federal intervention into local vice president for the including erosion of the family education came with the Institute for Family, and the collapse of marriage. Elementary and Secondary >> Community, and When President Johnson Education Act—today that’s Opportunity at The Heritage announced the War on Poverty known as No Child Left Behind. Foundation in Washington, D.C., the rate of unwed childbearing All the reauthorizations of that where she directs domestic was about 6 or 8 percent. law, one after the other, have policy research. With 2014 Today it’s 42 percent. Then, led to further and further bringing the 50th anniversary one of four black children was intervention from Washington. of Lyndon Johnson’s declara- born to an unwed mother. So the big story of the last 50 tion of a “War on Poverty,” we Today it is three of four. Among years in public education has talked about his pledge that blacks, unwed childbearing been the centralization of government programs would was 25 percent, but today it is policy-making. Right now abolish poverty. more than 72 percent. we’re debating whether there How close are we to Libertarians complain will be a common core, a set of winning the war? Sadly, we that social conservative national standards and tests. have missed the mark entirely. talk of marriage is getting We’re seeing less of an oppor- We’ve spent $20 trillion, more involved in personal tunity for a community to than all our other wars matters. How do you react design education according to combined, and have hardly to that critique? Marriage, the needs of the children there, reduced the poverty rate. and the family centered on and more centralization where We’ve got to go deeper and marriage, holds back the bureaucrats in Washington do ask questions like, “Why this state and protects the indi- not know the names of chil- stubborn resistance of the vidual. So those concerned dren in need and how to design poverty rate? What should about individual rights and education fitting to them. citizens be thinking? What limited government, those Homeschooling is one should Christians be doing?” fighting government spending reaction to that . The zip Given that the rate is and centralization of power in code assignment system we nearly the same, does Washington should be con- use for education policy poverty now look like it cerned about the stability of often locks children into fail- looked 50 years ago? In the family. There is a very ing public schools. The critical many ways no, because not extraordinary link between new idea on the block in the even the federal government the collapse of marriage and last 25 years has been can spend $20 trillion and dependence on welfare. A parental choice in education. have it not make a dent. We child born outside of marriage Homeschooling is up to about have seen an increase in the is five times more likely to be 3 percent of students now, and material living standards of poor than a child raised in an we have probably about savings accounts. That’s the poor. We can be thankful intact family. 225,000 students participat- encouraging to see, because that the kind of absolute So one of the reasons ing in p rivate school choice they are making our education poverty we see in some devel- that the poverty rate really programs across the country. conversation child-centered,
oping nations, with people hasn’t moved is family non- We’ve seen lots of innovation not system-centered. Lee
fearing for their lives, has been formation and malforma- in terms of the mechanisms Let’s talk Washington- Love/Genesis all but eradicated here. tion. What about education, that provide for school choice, speak: What is your major What kind of poverty do which is crucial for social whether they be vouchers, policy proposal? The most we have here? Relative mobility? In 1965 the big tax credits, or education important is not even a policy
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15 Q&A.indd 26 7/2/14 3:08 PM reforming welfare reform
You refer often to the 1995-96 welfare reform. What was the major change? Before, the welfare system was telling single moms in particular [that] you can keep getting your welfare check so long as you don’t have a job and so long as you don’t marry somebody with a job who kicks your income up. And those two disincentives were getting what you would expect. They were driving people not to work. Welfare reform almost two decades ago emphasized a work requirement: That has what social scientists call a “dissuasion effect,” because some people say, “If I have to bother coming into the welfare office every week to say I’m looking for a job, I might as well just go get the job that I know I can get anyway.” Did welfare reform work? Changing Aid to Families with Dependent Children worked, but we only reformed that one program. We need to go systematically through 80 others. Food stamps needs to be a work activation program. Plus, the dramatic effects that we saw up front on welfare reform have been muted in the past years, in part because pressure has not been kept up on governors to keep those welfare rolls down in their states by helping people get out into work. The Obama administration’s willingness to waive the work requirement— something that is not legal for it to do and something that rips the heart out of welfare reform—has communicated to states that welfare reform is not a priority any longer.
How can government be but not a real sustained focus useful here? We need elected on the importance of marriage officials to use their leadership as a contributor to the capacities to point to the common good. connection between marriage Of course, “stay in and poverty-fighting. President school messages” are heard Obama is in a terrific place to all the time, yet the enor- be doing this. He has a beauti- mous dropout rate shows ful family and by all accounts those messages have not has been a great father to his been all that effective. We two daughters. If he could be don’t know what the dropout calling attention to the need rate would be without that proposal: It’s tapping those never been to a wedding. Last for fathers to be committed to campaign, but we certainly institutions in society that weekend I heard a store vendor the mothers of their children haven’t seen results like the have relational capital. By that say she had never been to a in marriage, and to be devoted anti-smoking campaign I particularly mean families wedding—that will happen to the lives of their children by produced.
Lee able to give relational mentor- more and more as the marriage being present in a married Or people now coughing
Love/Genesis ing to other families. Marriage rate declines. We need to help family, that would be an into their arms—but mentoring where older couples people form a vision for mar- enormous, enormous benefit promoting marriage is go into neighborhoods where riage and gain the relational to us. We’ve heard one or two harder. It’s got to be a very perhaps a young person has skills. statements on Fathers’ Day, personal intervention. A
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15 Q&A.indd 27 7/2/14 3:06 PM Reviews > Music Silver Good and gone e recent deaths of four musicians may also signal the death of what they did so well BY ARSENIO ORTEZA
A Silver’s secret through the mourning occasioned was uniting the by the recent deaths of the jazz many strands of >> pianist Horace Silver (), the his vast oeuvre pop lyricist Gerry Goffi n (), and the with a playful R&B singers Bobby Womack () and accessibility at Bobby “Blue” Bland (): namely, that odds with the we may not see their likes again—and avant-garde Womack that we may be worse off as a result. experimentation Consider Horace Silver. Of jazz for which jazz
instrumentalists and singers there’s an was becoming Goffi SILVER: GAI TERRELL/REDFERNS/GETTY • GOFFIN: GAB ARCHIVE/REDFERNS/GETTY • WOMACK: MATT SAYLES/INVISION/AP • BLAND: RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES
abundance. But Brad Mehldau aside, it’s notorious during n hard to name a jazz pianist under the years of his capable of rivaling Silver’s impact as a ascent. e title musician, a composer, or a performer. of his fi nal album Besides recording and touring with of original material was various versions of his own quintet for Jazz … Has … a Sense of Humor decades, Silver also performed and/or (), but his output had recorded with Stan Getz, Art Blakey, already long made it obvious Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Sonny that he believed as much. Stitt, Lester Young, J.J. Johnson, and e death of the Brill Cannonball Adderley, somehow never Building alumnus Gerry Goffi n succumbing to the chemical depen- symbolizes a diff erent kind of Bland dency then prevalent among such loss. As the writing partner of company. Carole King (his fi rst wife), Jack And although he was usually catego- Keller, and Barry Mann, Goffi n of pop songwriting, it certainly infl icted rized as a “hard bop” pioneer, Silver wrote the lyrics to over Top hits, deep wounds. defi ned himself less narrowly. “I’m a jazz eight of which reached No. . It also devalued the rich, black- musician,” he wrote in his auto- But by the late s, the division of church-based style of singing at which b i o g r a p hy, Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty, labor requiring nonsinging songwriters Bobby Womack and Bobby “Blue” “[but] my musical infl uences include and nonwriting singers had been Bland excelled for half a century. the blues, black gospel music, Latin rendered passé by Bob Dylan and e Between and , Bland made music, symphonic music, Broadway Beatles, whose performing of their own appearances on Billboard’s R&B Top show music, and folk music. In short, compositions redefi ned authenticity. , enlivening resonant blues tropes whatever appeals to me.” Pithily crafted universal sentiments with his gravelly crooning and reaching What appealed to Silver also were replaced by self-expression a latter-day highlight in with appealed to others. His composition whether the selves had anything worth “Member’s Only.” Womack, on the “Señor Blues” has been covered by Ray expressing or not. other hand, was as celebrated for his Charles, Taj Mahal, George Shearing, Professionally marooned, Goffi n guitar playing and his songwriting as David Sanborn, Ike Turner, and sank into philandering, drug abuse, for his recordings, of which made Quicksilver Messenger Service. And and mental illness. He never fully the R&B Top between and . elements of his “Song for My Father” recovered his momentum, placing only Once established, neither Bobby sang inspired and found their way into nine songs on the charts after and the gospel on which he’d been reared. songs by Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & none after . Meanwhile, a new But neither violated its spirit either, Fire, and, most notably, Steely Dan kind of self-expression—rap—was bravely fi ghting a—if not the—good fi ght
(“Rikki Don’t Lose at Number”). ascendant. And if it didn’t kill the craft with humility and grace. A ARTSQUEST
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15 MUSIC.indd 28 7/8/14 10:52 AM NOTABLE CDs New or recent jazz CDs > reviewed by
Jazz Is Now Jonathan Batiste Named after a “jazz-education” program that Batiste oversees at Harlem’s National Jazz Museum, this album fi nds the -year-old, Louisiana-born pianist and his bass-drums-tuba Stay Human Band coming on friendly, loose limbed, and funky by turns. Exactly how much more forceful they’d be were they to combine all three traits at once remains to be heard. But for now the rhythms swing, the timbre survives the “harmonaboard,” and Batiste plays “ e Entertainer” as buoyantly as he sings “Sunny Side of the Street.”
Gadditude Steve Gadd Band After decades as one of rock’s most highly prized drummers for hire, Gadd has as much right to be SPOTLIGHT leading his own band as fans of his work with more- famous people have to be wondering why he’d want Chick Corea has been so many SILVER: GAI TERRELL/REDFERNS/GETTY • GOFFIN: GAB ARCHIVE/REDFERNS/GETTY • WOMACK: MATT SAYLES/INVISION/AP • BLAND: RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES to. Well, it turns out that he and his combo mates things to so many people that it’s have something to say—not literally, of course, but easier these days to approach vibewise. Whether bringing out the Southern soul in his new recordings without pre- Abdullah Ibrahim’s “ e Mountain of the Night” or conceived notions than with. And putting Larry Golding in touch with his inner Rick Wakeman, they’re articulate. because some of the things that he has been are pretentious, it’s nice e Solos Buddy Rich to encounter him the way that he These nine live performances from and presents himself on his recently are ideal for those fans of the world’s greatest released Solo Piano: Portraits drummer (no quotation marks please) who (Universal)—alone onstage before a always waited for him to burst into a solo the way paying audience, with an unfamiliar that certain Bruce Banner fans anticipate the coming of the Hulk. And who knows? Now that acoustic piano and no set list. “So Rich has been gone for over a quarter of a cen- welcome to my living room,” he tury, maybe shearing his solos of their big-band says. Less pretentious it would be contexts and absorbing them in rapid succession hard to get. really is the best way to appreciate their (and his) He plays Irving Berlin’s “How breathtaking genius. Deep Is the Ocean” and Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise.” He Forever Young Jacob You ng e standout track, should you wish to cut to the plays Bill Evans, eeloniouslonious Monk, chase, is “Bounce,” nearly eight minutes of the and Bud Powell. He plays Bartók saxophonist Trygve Seim lovingly and tastefully and Scriabin. He even plays some gilding the most gorgeous of Jacob Young’s latest of his own “Children’s Songs” and melodic lilies. e formula, however, recurs geographic “Portraits.” at he throughout: Seim on top and Young (guitar), Marcin plays them all equally well is Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (double almost as unpretentious as the bass), and Michal Miskiewicz (drums) providing approximately total minutes diaphanous rhythms and countermelodies below— a musical safety net if you will. Do the soft-focus that he spends introducing what chord progressions run enough risks to justify ssuchuch he has just decided that he wants
ARTSQUEST a metaphor? No. But the diaphanousness does. to play next.
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15 MINDY.indd 31 7/7/14 9:52 AM CHINA beachhead Pro-life efforts are growing in the nation with the most abortions. But saving lives in the womb is an enormous challenge—even within the church by June Cheng in China
he smell of steamed rice and stir-fried Chinese that the babies go to heaven, telling her the beef waft into the simple warehouse con- story of King David’s child. “Oh, that’s so good to hear,” verted into a church in northern China. she said. Fans mounted on the walls breathe air into In China abortion is “as common as drinking water,” the warm room, as gracious hosts hand one woman told me, with the official tally at 13 million T visitors cups of boiling water, the drink of babies aborted each year, by far the highest in the world. choice no matter the weather. As two pastors—one For many, abortion is viewed as the preferred method of American, one Chinese—finished teaching on the sanctity birth control, with ubiquitous ads on buses and billboards of life, women and men of all ages stood up, sobbing and touting quick, cheap, and pain-free abortions. Few people, praying for repentance: “Lord, forgive me for aborting including Christians, are knowledgeable about life inside my child; I didn’t know it was murder. Lord, forgive me the womb or understand the abortion for shedding innocent blood.” procedure, a fact attributed to the gov- For most in the room, this was the first time they had ernment’s desire to continue its popu- “I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS seen photos of fetal development, learned about what lation control policies. Yet it’s not just MURDER”: abortion entails, and studied what the Bible says about the one-child policy causing women A little girl the sanctity of life. A middle-aged Chinese woman with to abort; more and more single women holds a fetal cropped hair approached me with a nervous smile after- are also aborting as the younger model at a house church ward. “Where do the [aborted babies] go?” she asked, generation’s lax view of sex clashes where the pro- eyes watering. “I’ve had it done before and was wonder- against traditional stigmas against life training ing if I’d ever see them again.” I mumble in b roken having children out of wedlock. was held.
32 WORLD • July 26, 2014 PHOTOS by June Cheng
15 CHINA.indd 32 7/8/14 9:54 AM 15 CHINA.indd 33 7/8/14 9:54 AM In the past few years, Chinese TAKING A STAND: t’s midmorning, yet inside the dingy illegal medical Christians are starting to take a stand Pro-life training at clinic in Southwest China, light seems impenetrable. the house church for life, both by teaching about abor- in northern China. Next to a room lined with thin, musty cots and IV tion from the pulpit, and working stands, a stout female doctor sits behind her desk, brag- with women to find oftentimes Iging to me about her experience performing abortions. unconventional ways to protect life. Some originally hear She’s done abortions for 40 years now both at a hospital and the pro-life message from U.S.-based ministries, some at the clinic (where she makes much more money) and through the internet or overseas teachings, while others promises that it’s a very typical operation–one girl had are convicted through reading the Bible. From there, the eight abortions done, and she’s doing fine. message has spread to tens of thousands of churches While China’s law forbids late-term abortions, she said around the country, and resulted in mothers holding she would do the abortion regardless of the delivery date, giggling babies that otherwise wouldn’t be born, women “even if [the baby] comes out crying.” An abortion at three saved from forced abortions, and churches growing stronger months would cost merely 1,000 yuan ($160), and the as they repent and help their own. patient could be in and out of the clinic in two hours. She Yet still only about 1 percent of all the churches in China then showed me where the operation is performed, a have heard what the Bible has to say about life, according to locked back room that reeked of chemicals and death. In the pro-life group China Life Alliance (CLA). And with one corner stood a rusting operating chair with stirrups, cultural, governmental, and practical roadblocks hindering which the doctor quickly walked toward to toss out blood- their message, the Chinese pro-life movement still has a long stained tissues from her last operation, an 18-year-old who way to go. was five months pregnant. Tucked between a cot and table
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15 CHINA.indd 34 7/8/14 1:37 PM Married couples often see abortion as their only choice as well under the one-child policy. While the law has become less strictly enforced in some areas—with exemptions for ethnic minorities and parents where one is a single child— couples who have a second child are often forced to pay a fine between three and 10 times the average after-tax income in the city where they live. For those who work at government-run workplaces, having a second child leads to job loss, as it sets a bad example for the rest of society. While the REEKING OF DEATH: government officially bans forced Operating room inside abortions, the practice continues the illegal abortion clinic; the ultrasound machine in rural areas where local officials is behind the lamp. don’t understand the law.
was an illegal ultrasound machine covered with a piece of cloth, which the abortionist offered to use to help determine the sex of the baby. Sex- selective abortions are illegal in China, as the pref- erence for sons has skewed the country’s sex ratio. Yet about a block away from the clinic stands a police station, deliberately oblivious to the illegal activity down the street. Mark Li*, an American missionary who founded CLA, said the police secretly appreciate these clinics because they lower the official number of abortions in the country. While the government counts 13 million abortions a year, the actual number including unreported abortions could be as high as 30 million. ven the Chinese church, which has been grow- In China sex education is not taught in school, as teach- ing exponentially since China opened up in 1979, ers are embarrassed to discuss it. Parents also don’t talk to has kept silent about abortion. Peter Wang*, a their children about sex, so children learn from media, former house church pastor who now spends his including sexually explicit Western movies, music, and TV Etime training churches like the one mentioned above in shows. As a result, more than 70 percent of Chinese engage northern China, said he’s met pastors who have had abor- in premarital sex, a 30 percent increase from 20 years ago. tions themselves or given money to parishioners to help For unmarried girls who get pregnant, abortion often pay for their abortions. Some pastors, especially those in seems like the only option. Unwed mothers bring shame to rural areas, have never been taught that abortion is wrong the families, so parents pressure their daughters to abort. If or why it’s wrong. Others keep quiet because they feel that a single woman keeps her baby, she’s without a support the topic is too sensitive and don’t want another excuse for system and could lose her job, get kicked out of school, and the government to persecute their church. have difficulty getting married in the future. Also, the child But lately the tide is turning, as more Christians see the would be unable to get hukou, or household registration need for a Chinese pro-life movement. Li started CLA in that allows people to go to school, travel, or get a job. 2010 to create a decentralized network of churches and Placing the child for adoption is also difficult, as the gov- ministries all with the goal to share the pro-life message ernment has restricted private adoptions, leaving only a and help women keep their babies. By linking resources complicated and arduous legal adoption process. So for from the experienced American pro-life movement to the many, the optimal solution to the problem is to slip over to leaders of the Chinese church, CLA was able to equip local the hospital or illegal clinic, spend two hours and 1,000 believers quickly to start their own ministries. The group yuan and return back to normal life. has launched a network of safe houses for pregnant
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15 CHINA.indd 35 7/8/14 1:37 PM women, abortion rescue teams, a Christian legal aid minis- abortion. For those who still can’t pay the exorbitant fines, try, a Chinese resource website, and a pregnancy help families can have the baby and then buy hukou for their center. Li said that so far about 20,000 churches have child in the black market for a fraction of the price. heard of the pro-life message, and each church that hears Huang doesn’t seem to have a free minute, as she’s off the message goes on to save two to five babies a year. teaching sex ed in rural villages one week, then visiting abor- Pro-life solutions offered to mothers need to be altered to tion clinics and hospitals to talk young women out of having deal with Chinese culture. So in CLA, the on-the-ground abortions the next. Every time at least one or two girls end work is being done and funded by locals, like Sarah Huang*, up taking her phone number and giving her a call, and she’s a cheerful house church pastor in her 30s with quirky even built a relationship with the aforementioned abortionist. expressions like “It’s so hot I could spit blood.” After almost In spite of the lives saved, Huang finds it difficult to get aborting her son in 2012, she saw the importance of protect- support from the local church: Churches that can’t even ing life and started working for CLA. Since then she’s started afford to pay their pastors don’t have money to support her own one-woman ministry that has saved 50 to 60 babies. other causes. CLA faces other trials as well: Earlier this In the afternoon we spent together, Huang’s two cell year government officials arrested several workers con- phones kept ringing as mothers needed her help: “What do nected to CLA and told them the organization was under I do about my second baby?” “I’m pregnant and I don’t investigation. Police officers stymied a planned national have money to take care of this child.” “The officials are pro-life conference for church leaders in March, yet pastors forcing me to have an abortion, can you help?” Most calls still met at a different location to pray and repent for deal with one-child policy problems, and Huang assertively abortions in the church. douses the fires by challenging churches to help families pay the fine, find safe im Peters*, a veteran American pro-life activist has houses to keep the pregnant woman GROUND also turned his focus from the United States to China, WORK: Mother away from the pressures of relatives, or where he saw firsthand in 2010 how desperately the and child that threaten to report family-planning offi- Sarah Huang church needed to hear what the Bible says about abor- cials who continue to practice forced helped save. Jtion. With his pastoral background, he points to passages such as Luke 1—where John the Baptist leaps in Elizabeth’s womb at Mary’s and the just-conceived Jesus’ arrival—to show what the Bible says about when life begins. Peters, who travels back and forth between China and the United States, hired Wang to work full-time at the ministry training church leaders all over the country. Even if pastors are at first hesitant to hear the message, once Wang starts preaching, “their eyes get bigger, and if I speak for an hour, they’ll listen. If I talk for four hours, they’ll listen.” He’s even been able to teach at state- recognized Three Self churches to packed audiences of 700-800 people. It’s often after the teaching that the most challenging work begins. Ruth Wu*, a bubbly young woman, remem- bers feeling convicted when Wang came to preach about abortion at a church she was visiting. A few days later, she found out she was pregnant with the child of her ex-boyfriend. “In my heart my thought was to obey God, but realis- tically it seemed like I couldn’t [keep the baby], because my parents would not understand or support it.” So she went to the hospital for an abortion three times, but each time she ended up walking out. She called Wang asking for help, and through his church he found her a job and a place to stay. Throughout her pregnancy—which she kept secret from her family—church members brought her food and visited her, staying by her side in the delivery room. Once the baby girl was born, an older couple in the church privately took her in. Months later, Wu married David, her Bible study leader, and the two of them have joined the U.S.-based nonprofit
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15 CHINA.indd 36 7/8/14 9:59 AM All Girls Allowed in hopes of helping other young women in Self and house churches, and Chen wonders if the center similar situations. AGA, founded by former Tiananmen stu- could find a way to hire paid staff. She said she knows the dent leader Chai Ling, works in China giving financial assis- opportunity to have a life-saving center in the hospital is God- tance to women at risk of aborting their babies, which opens ordained, and can only pray for solutions to their problems. up opportunities to share the gospel with these families. At another church where Wang shared the message, hroughout the sprawling house church net- members mentioned to him that a nearby hospital had a works, leaders are rising up independent of any Christian director and several Christian nurses—why don’t overseas ministries. In Chengdu, Jonny Fan, a they try to open a pregnancy center in the hospital? The 27-year-old at the 500-member Early Rain TReformed Church, saw images of abortion on a blog in 2012 and felt convicted about the high abortion rates in the country. So for the past three years, he and his fellow church members have passed out brochures urging mothers not to abort on June 1, which is Children’s Day. Using his background in marketing, Fan created polished pamphlets explaining the scope of abortion in China, the hope found in the gospel, and contact information for his church. Last year, he expanded his campaign to include bus ads, and authorities arrested him and a few others for printing unapproved material. This year, Fan printed 50,000 fliers for his church to pass out, and police officers beat one church member for passing out the fliers. At Early Rain, the focus on protecting life is noticeable in the number of families sitting in the service with two kids. Fan said that most of the second children don’t have hukou, and they aren’t sure yet what they will do in the future. Besides buying hukou, families can also wait until the national census, when officials will sometimes register children for free to make their own job easier. One upside is that Early Rain has its own private Christian school and seminary, so the lack of director agreed, and required every FIVE LIVES SAVED: hukou wouldn’t stop them from getting an education. woman coming in for an abortion to Pink-and-yellow During the rest of the year, Fan leads a pro-life small pregnancy center first pass through the pink-and-yel- inside the hospital. group that focuses on educating church members about low room and speak with a volun- abortion and has expanded into adoption care. Last year, one teer counselor. At first about 20 church member passing out fliers outside a hospital con- volunteers showed up for the PHC training from Peters and vinced a young women to keep her baby. Fan connected her other American pro-life activists, but the number dropped with a family who was willing to adopt the child privately, down to 10 when the center opened in May 2013. and realized this would be the next big need in his ministry. In the year that the center has been open, five babies His June 1 campaign has inspired others to use the day have been saved, said volunteer Mary Chen*, as she showed to talk about abortion: This year Peters and Wang started a me iPhone photos of the chubby-cheeked babies bundled up month-long campaign ending June 1 to train church leaders in blankets. Most are from single mothers who are now to spread the word about abortion within their church net- married to their boyfriends. But difficulties started to arise works. About 8,200 pastors ended up preaching about abor- in March when the hospital placed a doctor in charge of the tion in their churches, according to Wang. Fan said that while center who would not let the counselors meet with the others have approached him asking about pro-life work, he’s patients. The volunteers were relegated to making follow-up not an expert, he’s just a Christian acting on his convictions. calls to women who have just had their abortions. “I do this because I see China’s rate of abortion is grow- But the bigger problem is that even if the counselors could ing too fast; it’s frightening,” Fan said. “This is what I meet with patients, there wouldn’t be enough people to staff believe: We cannot murder. But Chinese people have the center. The number of volunteers has dwindled to three sinned in this way. I don’t want to let the next generation due to busy work schedules and disagreements between Three live in an environment like this.” A
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15 ADOPTION.indd 38 7/4/14 2:27 PM Far from home Congolese authorities are keeping hundreds of adopted orphans from joining their new families abroad BY Kiley Crossland // photos by Shane Pequignot/Genesis
Alima and Masalay, two The story of stalled adoption in the Democratic Republic 5-year-old children from of the Congo (DRC) is part of a larger story of declining Congo, are legally part of the international adoption globally. International adoption has Stroud family in Fort Wayne, dropped 69 percent in the last decade, from 22,991 in Ind. Their adoption occurred 2004 to 7,092 in 2013, according to the U.S. Department last July, and they have of State. The decline is not for lack of orphans, or of par- passports and visas to leave ents who want to adopt them, but is instead a result of a Congo. But a year after complex web of international diplomacy and regulations. their adoptions were “Sadly [Congo] has become yet another country where finalized, they remain we have been struggling to work out a process of how we 7,000 miles away from can do adoptions,” says Kathleen Strottman, executive their adoptive family. director of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption The reason: Last Institute. Strottman says there is a growing bias against September, Congolese international adoption, fueled on many levels, both by authorities suspended countries that feel they are exporting their greatest issuing exit papers resource and by organizations that fixate on a few cases of to children post-adoption tragedy. But while countries like Nepal, adopted by foreigners. The suspension left hundreds of Guatemala, Russia, and, for now, Congo halt their adoption cases stalled, with some parents already in the country programs, Strottman says the underlying problem is but unable to get their children out. unaddressed: “children languishing in institutional care.” In late May a total of 62 children received exit permits Chris and Marianne Stroud applied for an adoption to leave, the first movement by the Congolese authorities decree in March 2013. In July 2013 Alima and Masalay in months. But the majority of children in the process are were legally declared their children. “They have our last stuck—and among them are Alima and Masalay. name. They have been on our health insurance since last This holdup is one of the largest in the history of inter- July,” says Marianne, explaining how much she considers national adoptions. According to numbers released by the them hers. U.S. Department of State in May, 792 children are stalled in Marianne remembers sitting in a circle with Chris and adoptions. Of those, 368 have completed legal adoptions, their three biological children, ages 12 to 16, looking at and half of those have passports and visas ready to go. The two grainy pictures printed off their computer. Little dark only thing needed is the faces with big eyes, one boy and one girl, looked back at exit paper, a document them. She says her family knew three things about the WAITING GAME: Marianne required to take the children: They were orphans, they were HIV negative, and and Chris Stroud are still in children through airport the orphanage thought they were 4. That was it. They later the adoption process for two Congolese children, Alima security on their way out found out Alima was found abandoned at a bus stop and (left) and Masalay. of the country. Masalay was brought to a medical clinic when both his
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African nations and 20 armed rebel militias. The rebel forces, especially in the east, are known for their use of sexual violence to degrade and conquer enemies. In May, two Congolese men were sentenced to life in prison for their part in the system- atic rape of 97 women and 33 girls over two days. In an environment of instability, high poverty, epidemics of prevent-
parents passed away. She says she wondered, “Are these the two little faces who are meant for us?” The Strouds prayed as a family, and decided to move forward. “We all had such a peace about it.”
emocratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) is a tropi- cal mass of mountains, lush river basins, plateaus, and grasslands. The 11th-largest country in the Dworld and the second largest in Africa, it is home to the vast Congo rainforest, the wind- ing Congo River system, whose tributaries cover most of the country, and a rich supply of natural resources. But a tragic history of exploitation and political conflict able diseases, and rape, UNICEF estimates there are at least 4 since liberation stifle economic and social progress. Some million Congolese orphans. estimate over 5 million Congolese have died since 1998 in the Michele Jackson, a lawyer and the executive director at Second Congo War, a bloody and ongoing war involving nine MLJ Adoptions Inc., the largest agency doing adoptions in the
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15 ADOPTION.indd 40 7/8/14 4:27 PM DRC, was in-country within weeks of the suspension in the adoption process. The Strouds had their first Skype announcement. She says authorities told her the country call with Alima in late May. She had never seen a working stopped issuing exit permits because of news reports they computer. Marianne said she had her hands over her eyes, saw concerning a Reuters investigation into rehoming in but kept peeping out. the United States. Rehoming is a process where parents After months of work, the Strouds were able to get privately transfer the custody of their adopted children to Masalay out of his orphanage in early June. It is a sticky sit- another family, in some cases putting the kids at risk of uation because the orphanages are desperate for resources. abuse and mistreatment. Marianne says, “The perverse incentive is that the orphan- Though the Reuters report covered a rare situation age does not want to release him because I pay for him to affecting a minority of children who are adopted, it was a be there.” In late May the head of the orphanage signed his situation that alarmed authorities in the DRC. In a country release paperwork, and he joined Alima at the boarding with recent memories of colonial exploitation, there is wide school. It was the first time Alima and Masalay met. skepticism and suspicion about why foreign families are so A few families have tried to go around the DRC’s eager to adopt Congolese orphans. Marianne Stroud says restrictions, inciting Congolese authorities to clamp down another family who was in the DRC to adopt their child even harder. A Belgian woman was caught trying to heard radio advertisements claiming that foreigners adopt smuggle her child out of the country. An American family Congolese children for slave labor and organ harvesting. forged a date on an official letter in an attempt to get out Jackson says part of the problem is a lack of communi- sooner. Marianne says it is frustrating. “I understand cation. She says that as she meets with Congolese in the people are desperate. I’m desperate. But you have got to adoption system she finds there is “little to no education follow the rules.” about our screening or education about our process.” She But the rules are unclear. The State Department’s recent is doing what she can as an adoption service provider, but alert announcing the issuing of 62 exit papers also said that believes that is the U.S. Department of State’s role primar- most people in the pipeline would have to wait until “a new ily. She says it is important the United States acts in a way law reforming intercountry adoption enters into force.” that is encouraging and collaborative. “It is a privilege for However, a network of adoption agencies, parents, and in- us to be able to adopt children from Congo.” country experts are saying the DRC will soon release more Kelly Dempsey is a private-practice attorney and the exit permits. Marianne says she is glued to Facebook and Director of Advocacy and Outreach for Both Ends blogs, where some of the quickest news and commentary is Burning, an adoption advocacy organization. Both Ends released. She says anything she is holding onto now is “part Burning launched a petition that has gained over 100,000 rumor, part hope, part a little bit of firsthand knowledge.” signatures, calling on Congress to intervene in the DRC The Strouds joined 55 other families in Washington, adoption halt. D.C., in late June to ask their senators and representatives She says the problem is a “fundamental lack of leader- for engagement in finding a resolution to their stalled ship for international adoption” and “a clear and undeni- adoption cases in Congo. They are still waiting to see if the able bias [in the United States] against adoption in effort will pay off. They hoped to generate interest in a non-Hague countries.” The Hague Convention is an inter- Department of State and congressional delegation to national treaty, entered into force in the United States in Congo, and to get support for the Children in Families 2008, that governs how international adoptions take First Act, a bill currently making its way through Congress place. In non-Hague countries like the DRC, she says, the that would restructure the way the United States handles United States has enflamed an already fragile relationship international adoptions. by treating the country with suspicion, including Chris, an OB-GYN physician who specializes in treating extended investigations to ensure DRC processes are infertility, says the hardest part for him is feeling utterly correct and allegations of fraud and corruption. helpless. “As the man of the family, I am sort of wired to “Hague is a good idea. A best practice policy. … But as go kill the bear. That’s my job. I want to go fix the problem.” implemented and as it is currently working, it is not He says this waiting and longing has made him understand protecting the best interest of children.” his patients more. “It’s very humbling and very hard.” Marianne Stroud is torn. “I applaud them that they Chris gets teary when he thinks about what he’ll say to want to fix their system. In the meantime, these are my them when they get home. “I’ll say that you are here. No children … they can’t stop the rock rolling down the hill matter what for the rest of your life you are a part of this and say, ‘Hold on, we’re going to freeze here.’” family. You are unconditionally accepted. We are broken, we make big mistakes, but you are a part of us. We are glad ntil they are able to bring the children you are here.” home, the Strouds are responsible for Alima Until then, Marianne keeps a pile of booster car seats, and Masalay’s care. They moved Alima from clothes, and supplies in the middle of their master bed- her orphanage to an American Christian room. She says it is a daily reminder every morning that missionary boarding school in December. their family is not complete: “These car seats are going to UThe school is boarding nine other adopted children stuck rot until we get them home.” A
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15 ADOPTION.indd 41 7/8/14 4:27 PM A what they meant, the preacher and the lawyer, about my father’s quality of life in the years before he died. I know both of them well enough to know that their intent was to comfort, to acknowledge that Dad’s last life decade was hard and that fi nally he was better. ey intended no off ense, and I took worth none. For I, too, have occasionally indulged in the same misapplication of meaning as I considered, in the abstract, the matter of “quality of life,” a descrip- tion rendered benign by its familiarity, which is the purpose of euphemism—to declaw accurate characterization. living by JAY C. GRELEN But in the here and now, two days after my father’s passing, their pronouncements stung. eir words were a judgment of an actual life, my father’s, and indirectly and unintentionally, an indictment of my mother’s devotion to him. e preacher, a long-time friend who was my parents’ pastor for more than years, lives in another state now. He had been in town and visited my parents the afternoon that turned out to be my father’s last in the home in which he had lived for more than half a century. With the long drive only days behind him, the pastor alerted us that he wouldn’t be able to return for the funeral. At Mother’s request, then, he wrote a eulogy, which he closed with these words: “I have two feelings on this day. One is deep grief. I mourn the loss of one of the really good guys in this world. … e other feeling is one of relief. Harold was disabled for so many years and toward the end, there was no good quality of life.” en came the lawyer, a friend from For a decade my father was high school, who off ered a similar charac- terization as we talked at Dad’s visitation. unable to walk or communicate, No good quality of life, they said. PHOTOS COURTESY FAMILY GRELEN but who is to say he had no to Fort Bliss, COURTESY a fi tting assignment given that he found good quality of life? the woman he would marry in the same town as the Army post. My parents met GRELEN in December in Sunday school at FAMILY Immanuel Baptist Church in El Paso, Texas.
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15 JAY GRELEN.indd 42 7/8/14 2:38 PM Dad, fresh from Fort Lee, Va., already had his orders to He could sit up in his hospital bed, feed himself. When go to Korea for a six-month tour. He and Mother discussed a my brother-in-law Ramon or I were there, we would put pre-deployment wedding, an urgency very unlike my staid, my dad in his wheelchair for a meal with his family at the unsentimental, and pragmatic father, who never bought a big table or transfer him to the chair lift in the living room product without fi rst consulting Consumer Reports. so he could watch us come and go. Although Mother was inclined to marry nd Lt. Harold Mother once put Dad in their car (with help, of course) Eugene Grelen, who ran the bakery on Fort Bliss, they for a visit to my home in Maumelle, Ark., and then the chose practical over romantic. So he left for the confl ict a three of us traveled to Nashville, Tenn., for a visit with his single man. e war shut down practically upon his brother, the last time they ever saw each other. arrival: Dad touched down in early July, and on July , Dad became less , the armistice was signed. and less lucid, but you On Dec. , , a year after my parents met, after could tell he was still only six months of a courtship that was interrupted by an in there. He would international confl ict, and only two weeks after his return cry. Sometimes, from Korea, Janie Charlene Miser took my father’s last rarely, you could coax name, and the two of them took off for Ruidoso, N.M. out a laugh. Two-way conversation, however, pretty much ’ long and mysterious decline behind ended about , us, we are comfortable that Lewy Body Dementia is the although Mother usu- accurate diagnosis, with the added complication of Fahr’s ally could decipher syndrome and peripheral neuropathy, which shut down his eff orts to his feet. In addition to Lewy Body and Fahr’s, Mother and communicate. Dad considered many another diagnosis over the years: She attended to Parkinson’s, Parkinsonism, and depression were the Dad’s every need— primary guesses. meals, medicine, My father retired from the U.S. Forest Service in the fall hygiene. e hired of . Technically, you could mark that as the beginning hands whom she paid of his end, although we can’t show any cause and eff ect. to help two hours a day on weekday mornings often were Six months before his retirement, he suff ered an acute more hindrance than help. reaction to a sulfa drug, which required a hospital stay and For the past fi ve years, Dad’s life was a loop of bed; damaged, apparently, his vocal cords. He never really breakfast at the kitchen table; a stop in the bathroom for a regained his voice. shave, shampoo, teeth cleaning, and application of deodor- e next things to go were his agil- ant; and trips to doctors and the dentist. ity and his cognition. e man who Mother never neglected him, never once complained. could fi x most anything no longer She never lamented that she couldn’t leave home without could patch a hole in Sheetrock, arranging for a sitter, never mentioned that she couldn’t much less hang a ceiling fan. leave town, period. She always referred to herself in the Without a good diagnosis, phar- plural as “we” and “us.” If we were in the kitchen or living maceutical aid was guesswork. room, she often herded us into his room so he could hear, Some medicine seemed to help, could be near. A half dozen times a day, when he would most of it didn’t. Mother marks slide west and his feet would hang off the end of the bed, as the year Dad went to my -pound mother would straighten him and pull his bed to stay. pounds back to the other end. She changed his clothes and changed his sheets all while he lay in bed, a tough task PHOTOS COURTESY FAMILY GRELEN for even a young trained nurse. Until April , Mom was
COURTESY still doing that—at the age of . UP AND COMING: th wedding anniversary (far left); Harold Dad’s last evident pleasure in life was food, and Mother shows off his gold bars at Fort Lee, is a great cook. In , however, life tried to deny him GRELEN Va., after his second-lieutenant even that. Doctors told Mother that Dad was aspirating commissioning (above); Harold food and recommended a feeding tube. Mother said “no.” FAMILY (right) and his older brother, Tom, in their Texas tuxedos and At the expense of even more of her time and energy, she Popeye ties circa . liquefi ed his meals and fed him. She crushed his pills and
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15 JAY GRELEN.indd 43 7/8/14 2:37 PM gave them to him in a spoon of applesauce. She gave him had been assigned to study STARTUP: Janie and his coff ee and sweet tea by the teaspoonful. Dad’s case through the prism Harold on their wedding day in (left); Harold Dad loved dessert, and with Mother in charge, Dad of our current defi nitions and was in charge of the rarely missed, even at the end, when Mom blended the discussions of healthcare, bakery at Fort Bliss in El desserts she made, usually from scratch, into liquid. Or Dad probably wouldn’t have Paso, Texas (top); Jay, mashed bananas into vanilla ice cream. qualifi ed for much. He could Janie, Julie, Lori, and Harold in . At bedtime, after Dad was clean and brushed, Mom not do a single thing for would tuck him in and lower the bed in the bedroom they himself for six years before had shared until they no longer could. She would plug in he left us. At any point during those years, my father, left Andy Griffi th singing hymns or another of the two dozen to himself in his bed, would have died in a matter of days. compact discs she had accumulated for him. And when she But he wasn’t left to himself, and however bleak his life fi nally turned in, she slept across the narrow hall of their may have looked, I don’t think he would have rated the small house in a twin bed. With her door open. quality of his life as poor. We can’t know, of course, what he was thinking or whether he was aware of his limitations. I don’t think, however, he would have preferred death to the ’ life lacked good quality of his life, and he was the only one qualifi ed to rate it. quality implies a call to action. If, say, the quality of my We hear of people who have lost the will to live; my dad father’s life was poor because he didn’t have food or a warm didn’t. Exam after medical exam, he amazed the doctors and bed, we could easily have improved his living conditions. nurses. His heart, his blood pressure, his blood counts, his But the impediment to Dad’s so-called good-quality life cholesterol—all good all the time. Based on the testing, there was an apparently terminal condition that lingered for years was no apparent medical reason for Dad to be in the bed. and bound him to bed, prevented him from verbalizing his If the quality of his life had been an issue for him, might wishes, so what were we to do? Or what were we to with- he have despaired and slipped away years ago? Might he hold to improve the quality? have willed himself to die? Maybe. Would he have pre- Who determines whether a life is suffi ciently pleasant ferred better health? Little doubt. But he lived with the and productive to qualify for further care and attention? I health he had. Maybe deep down my father hoped and speculated to myself occasionally that if a panel of doctors prayed and believed that tomorrow God would set him
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15 JAY GRELEN.indd 44 7/8/14 10:17 AM walking again, hope that made his life today tolerable, the hope that makes all our lives tolerable. Who are we to deny him his hope and trust in his Creator? What we really are talking about is the quality of physical health. Poor health is not necessarily the equivalent of a poor quality of life. We want to assist those who are in poor health, to make life better. But if we can’t make a life better in ways that are readily apparent, do we stop trying? e quality-of-life question is born of self interest. A person in my father’s situation, we think, would be better dead than alive. e caregivers would be relieved of the work and sacrifi ce of giving care or spared the expense of paying others. “Quality of life,” then, is subjective. From A GOOD LIFE: Harold was a range the perspective of the pastor and the lawyer, scientist with the U.S. Forest people who can still move about freely and care Service (above); at his mother’s house in shortly before he for themselves, my father’s life might have left for Korea (right); at home seemed to lack good quality. with Janie and their three But he—and we—would have missed much grandchildren, . had he not lived that last decade confi ned to bed. He would have missed years in the lives of granddaughters, who often stood by his bed to visit or who mugged for our cameras with him when he sat in his recliner or wheel- chair. His children and his grandchildren would have missed the lessons in devotion, loyalty, and compassion my mother taught every day. My father would have missed that decade of love and attention from the woman who waited for him to return from the war. Although our former pastor doubted the quality of Dad’s life at the end, he well knew the quality of my mother’s care for him, which he acknowledged in his eulogy: “When Harold and Janie took their wedding vows and spoke the words ‘til death do us part,’ they were spoken with clarity and commitment. Janie set the standard very high as she has cared for him through every day of the years of the illness. …” To say that there was “no good quality of life” at the end diminishes, if not discounts entirely, the value of my mother’s love and devotion, and Daddy’s appreciation of her, although he couldn’t say so. Our pastor surely would not have deprived them of that.
of , we persuaded my mother to visit us in Arkansas and my sister in Mississippi. ough her assent was reluctant and cut across the grain of her devotion and better judgment, she set Dad up for a three- week stay in a nursing home half a mile from
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15 JAY GRELEN.indd 45 7/8/14 2:12 PM FAMILY MAN: their house; she Harold with could accept this granddaughter only because my Rebekah in (top); daughter-in- sister Julie, who law, Sloane Grelen, lives in town, would reads to Harold be checking on him. and Janie at the When Mom breakfast table in walked into his July . room after her three weeks away, Dad’s eyes—to use Mom’s word—brightened. He couldn’t say it with words, but his eyes said that the quality of his life had just improved. Had just, in fact, walked through the door. His living companion, not his living conditions, determined the quality of his life.
when he went into the hospital late on April . Nine days later, on May , my sister, Lori, was in the hospital room with our parents. She updated me by text message: : a.m.: His blood pressure has been going up. It is getting too high. With that & his constant moaning, the nurse thought he might need some pain med. He has been very restless since yesterday afternoon. : a.m.: His bp is /. : a.m.: After pain med, Bp is now /. : p.m.: He’s almost gone. Very bad. My phone shows that my call to her connected three minutes later at : p.m., when Lori said two words: “He d i e d.” My mother and father fully lived out the roles God gave them, faithful to their commitment and vow until death parted them. Years ago Dad told me he believed Mom was his reward for remaining pure before marriage. And even as my dad approached his hour, right to the end, they were reaping the harvest of fi delity to God and to one another that my par- ents had planted years earlier: An hour before Dad died, Mother was at his side, spooning broth from a bowl, nour- ishment for a soul and not only its vessel of clay. is is love that puts the sword to the euphemism, devotion that proclaims that the degree of quality in our lives is beyond mortal measure. A —Jay C. Grelen is a writer living in Maumelle, Ark., available via jaygrelensweettea.com
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AWARD FOR EFFECTIVE COMPASSION Cultivating change RURAL MINISTRY IN MICHIGAN EARNS MIDWEST REGIONAL VICTORY by DANIEL JAMES DEVINE in Lake City, Mich., & Milwaukee, Wis.
of WORLD’s Hope community, since anyone in crisis can arrive looking for help, Award for Eff ective Compassion. rough the and Friends gives church volunteers great opportunity to nominating work of our readers we’ve had the interact with those who are bartering their time to get bills paid. privilege of looking into hundreds of poverty- Please read on. —Marvin Olasky fi ghting ministries, and through the kindness of donors we’ve been able to award , each year to programs that impress our reporters and our readers who vote online each October to FRUITS OF LABOR decide the national winner. A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN RURAL MICHIGAN CHALLENGES is year, after researching numerous minis- THE POOR TO WORK OFF THEIR BILLS tries via internet and telephone interviews, we sent Midwest bureau reporter Daniel James J, strawberry, asparagus, Devine to eyeball Friends Ministry in Michigan and and pea sprouts stood in rows in a community garden in Community Warehouse in Wisconsin. Both seemed equally O Michigan. Dozens of Geronimo tomato plants and bell T eff ective in stimulating change among those who are poor. peppers grew inside a hoop house. Sprouts of parsley, sage, Both rely largely on informal relationships of Christians and and basil spread their leaves in a greenhouse heated to non-Christians within controlled work environments. degrees Fahrenheit. We chose Friends as the Midwest Region winner because over Near the garden’s front gate, CHANGING LIVES: Don the past nine years we haven’t seen as many rural programs Teresa Paxton, , a worker with Hoitenga (kneeling) and as urban ones, and because Friends’ garden work program is freckles, a ponytail, and a friendly workers in the fi eld at intriguing. Friends has many avenues of outreach into the smile, sprinkled water on salad Friends Ministry.
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AWARD Teresa Paxton FOR EFFECTIVE COMPASSION
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greens growing in waist-high plastic bins. She ran her fi ngers they work in the garden . hours, the organization will through robust romaine and green leaf lettuce, and pointed directly pay a bill of up to , whether for house rent, out arugula, radishes, and beets. Caring for these salad bins is utilities, or a car repair. It works out to an hour, though her therapy, she said: Two years ago she was “miserable” after they are not technically employees: If they break a contract by her marriage crumbled, but “this place changed my life. failing to fulfi ll their scheduled hours, their bill goes unpaid. When I walked in that gate, this peace came over me.” e gardeners include volunteers who come here regularly Here at Friends Ministry, a -acre nonprofi t in northern to befriend the barter laborers and off er a word of encourage- Michigan, berries and varieties of vegetables grow in a ment or a listening ear. One, Don Hoitenga, carried gospel community garden created to help the poor. e offi cial tracts in his shirt pocket and said he sometimes hands out unemployment rate here is percent, and while some work Bibles to barter workers. “God bless you. Good to meet you on dairy farms and at Christmas tree plantations, others draw again. Keep the faith,” he told one after helping her transplant welfare checks and use food stamps. Friends Ministry aims to asparagus into a shallow trench. revive a work ethic by hiring residents to labor in the garden Paxton, for example, gained help with a gas and electric in exchange for fi nancial assistance, and along the way teach bill but also spiritual help: As she worked in the garden, a about both God and budgeting. supervisor (and pastor) listened to her, prayed with her, and At a.m. on a recent ursday, workers arrived and invited her to Bible studies. Today, she is a member and gathered in a circle as a garden manager prayed for safety for weekly attender of his church. Before, she merely believed in the day and salvation for the lost. en they split up for God, but she’s now trying to “live my life the way God wants assigned tasks: some to plant beets, one to run a rototiller, and me to.” She collects Social Security disability income for a two to rake up dead stalks cut from Nova red raspberry spinal abnormality that causes back pain when she sits still bushes, making way for new growth that should bring , for too long, but watering, harvesting, and packaging salad pints of fruit this year (plus whatever the robins snatch). greens allow her to keep moving. Some of these workers were fulfi lling hours required by Paxton also hopes working in the garden will get her in “barter” contracts they’ve signed with Friends Ministry: Once good enough shape to get an outside job. Earlier this year she
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15 HOPE-MIDWEST.indd 50 7/3/14 3:30 PM bartered labor to pay for repairs to her red pickup truck, and Christian Reformed Church that off ered prayer, transportation, since then she has come every day as a volunteer or to donate or help with heating bills. It grew to include a banquet hall her hours. (Friends Ministry allows friends and family members rental business (which failed) and a thrift shop (which thrived to help one another fulfi ll contract hours, but limits c ontracts and brings in a third or more of Friends Ministry’s annual rev- to two per household, per year.) enue). It gives away or resells donated used cars and organizes Brian Cohee, a -year-old single dad who said he’s been summer volunteer church teams to fi x roofs or clean up yards off drugs for three years, collects Social Security income for a in the community. head injury: In he huff ed cleaning spray, passed out, hit In Friends Ministry added the garden in hopes of his head on concrete, and underwent two brain surgeries. He giving people with low income a dignifi ed place to work in said he doesn’t yet attend church but prays more than he exchange for help. Today it sells the fruits and vegetables at a used to. He believes his head injury would make him a liabil- road stand and farmers market. Some residents also pay in ity to a regular employer, but thinks he might be able to run advance for a “share” of the season’s produce. e garden his own landscaping business: At Friends Ministry he fi red hasn’t suff ered widespread crop losses yet, although cowbirds up a weed whacker and cut grass along the garden fence, ate all the saskatoon berries overnight last year—this year, working to pay off an electric furnace nets will cover the bushes. repair bill: “I’ve paid off court fees, I’ve When new clients arrive looking for paid off license fees, lawyer fees.” He help with a bill, executive director Mark sometimes brings his kids along to teach Money box Mortenson, , usually requires them to them the value of hard work: “My write out a budget. He often prays with FRIENDS MINISTRY -year-old was even out here picking up them and invites them to surrender to 3 revenue: , rocks on a Saturday.” God what they can’t control: car problems, 3 Friends Ministry started in as a expenses: , gas prices, physical pains. He provides 3 nondenominational outreach growing out Net assets at the end of : spiritual counsel for overcoming alcohol , of a deacons’ ministry run by the or drug addictions, and refers them to 3 Executive director Mark Mortenson’s salary and benefits: , 3 Staff: full-time; part-time 3 budget: , 3 Website: FriendsMinistry.net JULY 26, 2014 • WORLD
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outside counselors for serious family problems or AWARD surprised by his ability to retain numbers and manage FOR EFFECTIVE COMPASSION mental illness. a business: “No matter what shape, form, or color Friends Ministry does not hand out cash to clients you are, God has blessings for any individual that but will give a free piece of furniture from the thrift leans more towards Him.” shop, and pay directly up to for a legitimate need such as at was the belief of several businessmen who created a heating payment, a GED testing fee, or work boots. For Community Warehouse in as an eff ort to spruce up the larger bills, clients must work off a garden contract. If their city’s low-income neighborhoods. Residents within one of expenses exceed the contract limit, Friends Ministry connects Milwaukee’s poor neighborhoods pay an annual membership them to other assistance agencies, or helps them fi nd subsidized fee ( for individuals, for nonprofi ts, for businesses) housing if they are living beyond their means. Many clients and can then shop at the warehouse, with product prices dis- get help with bills then disappear the rest of the year, but counted roughly percent below retail. One shopper, Lonita some, like Paxton, return to donate their time or money. omas, , said she had bought bathroom fi xtures, a sink, Clients often arrive blaming others for their problems, and and faucets: She is helping her brother remodel the white, are sometimes lazy, so Mortenson challenges them to take two-story home they share, and had ridden a commuter bus responsibility. Once, when a worker was “lollygagging” for an hour to get to the warehouse. instead of doing his job peeling the bark from cedar posts, As Community Warehouse facilitates fi x-ups it also provides Mortenson walked over, threatened to cancel his work con- transitional jobs to a stream of tract, and said, “I want one log peeled every minutes. … If workers with checkered back- you can’t do that, then go home.” e worker peeled the log in grounds, often involving weapons FACILITATORS: Jacob minutes and, excited by his success, began teaching others or drug convictions. (In Milwaukee Maclin (below) with a satisfi ed customer; how to do the same. County, which includes the city, David Buford Mortenson’s conclusion: “People respond when you love over half of African-American men prepares books for them enough to give ’em a little push.” A in their s have spent time in state sale online (right).
FREEDOM TO WORK A MILWAUKEE NONPROFIT GIVES BACKGROUND CHALLENGED WORKERS A DOOR TO NEW LIFE
M to his two young children, but he had no car, no job, J and a gang background. He’d recently served nearly fi ve years in prison for participating in a drug deal. His job hunting eff orts led to more than interviews and many promises of, “We’ll keep you in mind,” but no one ever called back. Maclin kept count of the interviews in a black book. After , he planned to give up—but his rd interview was at Community Warehouse, a Christian nonprofi t based in Milwaukee’s south side that pro- vides discounted construction materials such as win- dows, doors, siding, and light fi xtures to dilapidated neighborhoods. After some internal debate, the organization hired the former convict in early . Maclin’s only skills were cooking and cleaning, so he started dusting off the warehouse products. “ e more stuff I wiped off , the more things started to sell. So I just went on a wiping spree for two weeks.” He soon learned to drive a forklift, work the cash regis- ter, and track inventory. By , with sales doubled and revenue soaring, WAREHOUSE Maclin became the discount warehouse’s manager. Now he’s and his responsibilities include directing
eight or so workers in jobs he once held—unloading COMMUNITY semitrailers full of donated products, or organizing
tubs and ceramic tile on display shelves. He’s been MACLIN:
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15 HOPE-MIDWEST.indd 52 7/3/14 3:30 PM erly tape up sold textbooks in bubble wrap, envelopes, and boxes. “ is is my pride and joy,” Leroy Maclin says of the online business. On a world map on the wall, pushpins mark where the business has shipped products—to every continent except Antarctica. It even shipped some exercise equipment to a Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean, all the while maintaining Milwaukee Working’s percent positive feed- back seller status on Amazon.com. Elsewhere in the building, work- ers cut apart used pallets, shearing nails with reciprocating saws, dis- carding cracked planks, and saving good ones. In a huge, dank basement, the sound of pop! pop! pop! bursts from pneumatic nail guns and prisons.) As part of the eff ort to help some of those least likely ricochets off a high ceiling as workers build new pallets. Leroy to be employed, Community Warehouse has now opened a Maclin, smiling, jumps up and down on one of the freshly second large warehouse on the city’s north side. ere, work- nailed ones: “I’m practically pounds. I got to test it out.” ers are rebuilding pallets and selling books online in business One pallet worker, Eric Knox, , served nearly eight years endeavors Community Warehouse has created for them, an in prison on federal drug charges. He has three daughters, one initiative it calls “Milwaukee Working,” which generates of whom recently graduated from college, and says “a lot of around , a month. family members are proud of what I’m doing now.” He plans In a corner of that second warehouse, shelves hold rows of to marry his fi ancée next year. donated books, board games, DVDs, and CDs. Sitting at a Community Warehouse isn’t a church. Transitional workers computer workstation with a mouse, keyboard, and hand- need not profess faith, and some live with fi ancées, but they held scanner, David Buford, , fl ips through a textbook, must abide by rules at work: hand in cell phones, no smoking looking for markings or dog-eared corners. He notes the except during breaks, be honest and respectful. Staff and vol- book’s condition before listing it for sale online. unteers serve as informal mentors, and Milwaukee Working Before coming to Milwaukee Working, Buford had helped hosts a Monday morning Bible study that almost all the workers his uncle do home improvement jobs, but the work typically attend voluntarily. e Bible study “helps guys like me under- lasted a few months then bottomed out: “I didn’t have a lick stand why Jesus sacrifi ced Himself,” says Leroy Maclin. “A lot of money.” He was tired of being broke for Christmas and his of guys like me believe in Him, know of Him, but really don’t two kids’ birthdays, and thought robbing , from a drug know of His Word.” dealer might change things. Instead, it landed him in jail for Some workers prove themselves unreliable. “Gettin’ ’em four months. here is the biggest challenge,” Jacob Maclin says. “Right now I Afterward, Milwaukee Working let him work in the online got four guys that didn’t show up today!” Workers are allowed business: He started at the minimum wage rate of . an one sick day per month, and when some miss more, Maclin hour, paid by the YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, a federally contacts them to fi nd out what caused the absence, and may funded social services agency. Now Buford earns an hour, off er to help them overcome personal struggles: He empathizes with a quarter of his paycheck temporarily subsidized by with men who feel drawn back into old lifestyles, where drug YWCA, and the rest paid by Community Warehouse. He’s deals once off ered thousands of dollars of income per day. saving up to buy bunk beds for his Firings occur only as a last resort. kids, who spend weekends with him. “ at’s the toughest part of my job: Buford says he’s gone “from having letting someone go.” the courage to go rob somebody to Money box For the workers who stay, Jacob having the courage to get up every Maclin, now married and a father to morning and provide for my family COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE four, is a role model. It’s his responsi- WAREHOUSE 3 honestly.” revenue: ,, bility, he says, to make sure “no At another workstation, the 3 expenses: , matter if they are here for six months, 3 Net assets at the end of
COMMUNITY e-commerce manager, -year-old one year, four years, fi ve, that they Leroy Maclin (Jacob’s younger fiscal year : ,, know that they have somebody who 3 Salary of immediate past executive MACLIN: brother), helps a new worker prop- really cares.” A director George Bogdanovich: , 3 Staff: employees on payroll; transitional job workers 3 Fiscal budget: . million 3 Website: eCommunityWarehouse.org; Email: [email protected] MilwaukeeWorking.org JULY 26, 2014 • WORLD
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HANDOUT Notebook > Technology My digital neighborhood A slow-growing social network wants you to get online and meet your neighbors BY DANIEL JAMES DEVINE
A st- contact info, explain what touch with residents. In my Postings were infrequent, century civilization is they do for a living, and say neighborhood, the local too (in June, no one had how perfectly normal whether they have children police department was the written a new post since >> it is to chat online or pets. A few members are most active user. It posted March). My neighbors might with a friend from across assigned as administrators holiday burglary prevention have been like me: Whereas the state, but how unusual and can delete inappropriate tips and asked residents to I often checked Facebook, I it is to talk face-to-face posts. report uncut grass and only rarely checked in with with a neighbor across the When members post to unlicensed vehicles. Nextdoor. Who has time for street. In my experience, the site, they can choose One major problem, both? After all, the local most neighborhood conver- whether to make the infor- though, was that from police department is on sations are sparked by lost mation visible only to their January to June, my net- Facebook, too. dogs, power outages, and immediate neighborhood or work grew glacially, from Still, only percent of extreme winter weather. A to nearby neighborhoods as members to just — Facebook “friends” consist poll from Pew Research well, giving some control almost all total strangers to of physical neighbors, found that a quarter of over the degree of privacy. me. at out of , according to another Pew Americans don’t know any ey can also exchange households allegedly report. It leads me to of their neighbors by name. private messages.messages. within my “neighborhood” believe Nextdoor has poten- A free social network In my town, neighbors boundaries. tial to fi ll a local niche. called Nextdoor wants to posted break-in alerts, As to meaningful change that. Nextdoor.com photos of missing cats and connections, I have is like Facebook for your dogs, and holiday greet- already learned the neighborhood: Only people ings. Some asked about names of a few nearby who live nearby can view subdivision garage neighbors for the fi rst the network or post com- sales, off ered items for time—an initial step ments on it. Based in San sale, or asked (and to better acquain- Francisco and launched occasionally com- tance. However, none nationwide in , plained) about of us has been Nextdoor has grown to citycity services. I willing toto include , neighbor- chimed in with a divulge our hoods in over cities. warning about tele- phone In January an email phone scammers after a numbers yet, arrived in my inbox asking woman with an Asian suggesting me to join a new Nextdoor accent called one we still have website for my neighbor- day and tried to some hood in northwest Indiana. hijack my com- bridge I did, and became one of the puter over the building fi rst “neighbors” on the phone. A few ahead. network. Over the next six neighbors A
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15 LIFESTYLE and TECH.indd 57 7/3/14 4:08 PM Refining the Notebook > Science oil ban The Obama administration has taken a step toward reversing the long-standing ban on exporting oil from the United States. In June The Wall Street Journal broke news that the Commerce Department had given two U.S. energy companies permission to export a type of ultralight oil called condensate—composing up to 13 percent of oil extracted from shale rock through fracking. Administration officials quickly claimed they made “no change in policy From cool to cold on crude oil exports,” since the condensate will have to A long-term study finds middle-school popularity often be partially processed doesn’t end well By daniel james devine (though not refined) before being shipped. But one The kids who were “cool” in When the subjects reached their early analyst described the new middle school aren’t so cool any- 20s, though, researchers followed up, policy as a “historic shift.” more. That’s what researchers found asking similar questions. It turned out Some in Congress have >> in a new study examining the social the popularity of kids who engaged in called for a total repeal of status and behavior of 175 young people, pseudomature behaviors in middle school the ban, established during ages 13 to 23, over a decade. Teens who faded quickly as they grew older. By early the 1970s Arab oil embargo. impressed their friends in middle school adulthood their peers rated them as poor —D.J.D. because of their daring, sometimes rebel- at handling friendships and romantic lious behavior ultimately developed more relationships. Worse, they were 22 percent social problems later on. more likely than others to commit serious The study tracked male and female crimes, and 45 percent more likely to adolescents beginning at age 13, asking experience problems related to alcohol or them about what researchers called drug use. “pseudomature” behaviors, such as Published online in Child Development whether they had “made out” with boy- in June, the research suggests an early
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Obamacare hike Americans who gained insurance under the new healthcare exchanges are sicker than expected and will need to be subsidized by higher premiums, according to insurance data from the first three months of 2014. The Wall Street Journal, compiling data from healthcare technology company Inovalon, reported 27 percent of people who saw a doctor after obtaining new coverage under Obamacare had serious illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, or mental disorders. By comparison,
only 16 percent of patients with individual plans in 2013 had a serious illness. People with new epa/newscom / Obamacare plans were also older and more likely to visit the doctor. Private insurance providers had T expected an increase in sick enrollees, but some found the total to be greater than anticipated: To
balance their costs, they said they plan to raise premiums by up to 25 percent next year. —D.J.D. CHRIS odd
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15 MAILBAG.indd 62 7/7/14 3:51 PM Mailbag ‘Day of reckoning’ June e articles on GM’s culpability in ignoring fatal car defects and the exposé on the government’s cozy relationship with big banks (“Too big to jail,” June ) give citizens knowledge and insight into issues that aff ect them. ‘Honoring Dad’ I found the cover story especially endearing because June I too miss my father and wish hhee were here. Despite his mental of Lance Cooper’s dogged determination to get struggles, he led me to a deep-seated, down to the facts and then hold those responsible up Calvinistic faith, uprooting our family from a comfortable setting and moving to the light of ethics and the law. to Iowa to attend a Christian Reformed Church and enter a Christian school —E S, Brunswick, Ohio system. I am eternally grateful for the sacrifi ces, fi nancial and otherwise, my father made for us. Jamie Dean did a great job telling us ‘Repeated exposure’ —P A, Pella, Iowa what really went on in the Melton fam- June Andrée Seu Peterson is right ily’s lawsuit against General Motors. We about how our cultural attitudes gradu- ‘Hashtag wars’ should never forget how one person ally change: through repeated exposure. June ere are no adults in the can make a diff erence. Especially if we are regular TV watchers, White House. Keep turning up the heat, —P M, Pagosa Springs, Colo. our attitudes change so gradually we and keep letting us know about those hardly know what happens to us. in Washington who understand the ‘Let’s be reasonable’ —L A N, Encino, Calif. problems so we can encourage them. June Janie B. Cheaney describes —J R, Oro Valley, Ariz. marriage as the union of one man and My fi rst year in Africa we had no TV, so one woman for the purpose of begetting when I came home I was shocked by ‘Refl ective journey’ and nourishing children. I would add what my Christian friends were watch- May Sophia Lee’s account of her that it is the very heart of the created ing. By the end of that year-long home train journey made me want to take in order, the source and means of growth assignment, I was amazed by what I the America that surrounds me daily of the human race. God’s judgment is at was watching. Now that I’m retired, I but that I rarely notice. Finding pleasure the gate when government institution- try to avoid watching negative things, in the mundane and taking time to alizes and churches bless same-sex but our whole culture bombards us notice the sights, sounds, and smells “marriage.” daily. It’s a battle. around us seems to be a forgotten art —W C, Pike, N.H. —J H, Rumford, Maine these days. —R F, Seattle, Wash. e world is changing so fast I can’t ‘Grandpa J and the VA’ keep up. Just when I thought we were June I commend Joel Belz for I like WORLD, but can stomach only so making good progress in the abortion acknowledging that in government, as many articles about things we need to debate, along comes gay marriage like a in all walks of life, some bureaucrats pray for. I was about to put down this tornado. Now we have federal judges are “sincere and devoted providers.” issue until later when I turned to Lee’s overturning state laws and voter Christians must resist our culture’s article and wondered, “What’s this mandates as if they were written in tendency to belittle particular groups, about?” I enjoyed it very much. disappearing ink. It seems we have and the controversy surrounding the —K D, Woodland-Kamiah, Idaho been ambushed in the culture war, but VA would have made those workers our job is not to give up. easy targets. Lee’s refl ections brought back many —R H, Lakeland, Fla. —J N, San Antonio, Texas memories of cross-country travel on
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Amtrak in the ’s. But ‘A little common sense’ since when does the defi nition of May I would like to include a little “lady” include a person who common sense of my own in the “spew[s] f-bombs for hours.” My gendered bathroom debate. Going to dictionary’s defi nition describes a the bathroom should not be a social woman with “refi ned habits and or political activity. It is a biological gentle manners.” I suppose this is function, which is part of why we something else we of advanced years have separate bathrooms: to accom- must accept. modate physical diff erences. —P L, West Bend, Wis. —C W, Lexington, Ill.
‘Sky watch’ ‘To train up a Pharisee’ May People are concerned about May I thought you did a good job surveillance programs, but I think on the article about the Pearls. We START BY SUMMER 2014, people would do well to remember were expecting a very negative arti- the supreme surveillance program. cle, but you were fair and balanced. AND YOUR As it says in Hebrews, “all things are We read To Train Up a Child over FIRST CLASS IS FREE! naked and open to the eyes of Him to years ago and have been blessed by whom we must give account.” their perspectives over the years. cedarville.edu/mbaonline —P E. Y, Union, W.Va. —M M, Santa Rosa, Calif.
‘Pattern of deception’ We are very disappointed in this arti- May anks again for another cle. We have read the Pearls’ books great issue. It seems as though the and magazine for well over a decade administration deceives us on almost now and fi nd their ministry faithful every subject, with offi cials thinking to Christ and refreshingly biblical. I they can create their own version of suspect that some warped or unsta- “truth.” Perhaps the most signifi cant ble parents have abused the Pearls’ are the deceptions regarding teachings on physical correction of Benghazi. at debacle was no children, perhaps because they read “accident.” about wonderful, peaceful, homes —P M, St. Charles, Ill. and try to beat their children into
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fi tting that image. Such people cannot make that happen, whether health care for people they read the Bible, the Pearls’ books, or anything else. —L B, Baldwin City, Kan. of Biblical faith! e loss of three children’s lives is heart-wrenching, but it was shock- ing to see them mentioned in an article about the Pearls. It puts a negative cloud on this family and business. ose cases speak volumes, not about the Pearls or home- schooling, but on the challenge of incorporating adopted children into family life. —L G, Pittsburgh, Pa.
‘Silent submission’ May Christian culture has become so foggy regarding the authority of Scripture. How refreshing to be reminded what we have: God’s actual word! e truth is on our side, in creation and all aspects of life. —P ME, Camas, Wash.
I appreciate Joel Belz’s stand on cre- ation, and agree that God is involved As a committed Christian, you can live consistently with your beliefs in the whole world, not just the by sharing medical needs directly with fellow believers through “religious” parts. As a young earth creationist, I do not understand how Samaritan Ministries’ non-insurance approach. You do not have to some try to point people to God but purchase health insurance that pays for abortions, abortifacient yet deny that He is the creator and drugs, and other unbiblical practices. Health care sharing satisfies the sustainer of the universe from individual mandate in the recent Federal health care law (United States Genesis through Revelation . Code 26, Section 5000A, (d), (2), (B)). —Jeff D, Bloomington, Ill.
Your magazine has a diff erent tone. Every month the more than 36,000* households of Samaritan Min- You give the negative side of the istries (over 120,000* persons) share more than $10 million* in medi- news, but you balance it with posi- cal needs directly—one household to another. They also pray for one tive news about decent, helpful another and send notes of encouragement. The monthly share for a beings on this increasingly evil family membership of any size has never exceeded $405*. planet who strive to make it a better place to live. anks so much. —B K, Hamilton, Mont. For more information call us toll-free at 1-888-268-4377, or visit us online at: www.samaritanministries.org. LETTERS & PHOTOS Follow us on Twitter (@samaritanmin) and Facebook (SamaritanMinistries). * As of July 2014 Email: [email protected] Write: WORLD Mailbag, PO Box , Asheville, NC - Please include full name and address. Letters may be edited to yield brevity and clarity. Biblical faith applied to health care www.samaritanministries.org
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