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Person Or Product—What Do You See? Discerning the Face of Modern Slavery Just Eating: Environmen- Talism at the Table PRISMJANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013 PERSON OR PRODUCT—WHAT DO YOU SEE? DISCERNING THE FACE OF MODERN SLAVERY JUST EATING: ENVIRONMEN- TALISM AT THE TABLE Be an abolitionist Refugees from (it’s easier than you think) polygamy WHEN PASTORS ABUSE RETURN TO (A VEGETARIAN) EDEN PRISMMAGAZINE.ORG PRISM Vol. 20, No. 1 Jan/Feb 2013 Editor Kristyn Komarnicki Creative Director Rhian Tomassetti Copy Editor Leslie Hammond Deputy Director Sarah Withrow King Publisher Ronald J. Sider Assistant to Publisher Josh Cradic Contributing Editors Christine Aroney-Sine Myron Augsburger Clive Calver Issac Canales Rudy Carrasco M. Daniel Carroll R. Andy Crouch Paul Alexander J. James DeConto James Edwards Gloria Gaither Perry Glanzer David P. Gushee Ben Hartley Jan Johnson Stanley Hauerwas Craig S. Keener Jo Kadlecek Peter Larson Marcie Macolino Richard Mouw Mary Naber Philip Olson Earl Palmer Jenell Williams Paris Derek Perkins Christine Pohl Elizabeth D. Rios James Skillen Lisa Thompson Al Tizon Heidi Rolland Unruh Jim Wallis Bruce Wydick Subscription Information Renewing your subscription? Visit EvangelicalsforSocialAction.org/PRISMRenew Regular PRISM Subscription Only $30 a year. Type: US/Canada via air mail Good Stewards Subscription (PDF) Receive the same PRISM as everyone else but in your email box. Now free! International Subscription Receive PRISM via PDF only. Now free! Library Subscription Order PRISM for your library! Only $45 a year. www.PRISMmagazine.org P.O. Box 367 Wayne, PA 19087 484-384-2990/[email protected] Note: Standard A mail is not forwarded; please contact us if your address changes. A Publication of Evangelicals for Social Action The Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy www.EvangelicalsforSocialAction.org Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University All contents © 2013 ESA/PRISM magazine. JANUARY/ FEBRUARY CONTENTS 2013 2 REFLECTIONS Freedom for the Captives 3 TALK BACK Letters to the Editor nternational Mission Justice 6 I 16 4 MUSIC NOTES © Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts 6 ON THE FRONT LINES OF ABOLITION 5 ART & SOUL Five contemporary slavery fighters discuss their weapons of choice: law enforcement, Art (and the Gospel) for the Masses media, education, aftercare, and prevention. 34 MAY I HAVE A WORD? 16 FIERCE COMPASSION Sharing the Shame An American teenager and her mother discover spiritual kinship with an early 19th- century abolitionist, a bond that opens their eyes to the evils of present-day human 36 MINISTRY MATTERS trafficking. Bringing Jesus to the Streets: Sill Davis of Emmaus Ministries 18 REFUSE TO DO NOTHING Being the right kind of nosy neighbor is one of the best ways to fight modern slavery. 38 CELEBRATE / SAY WHAT? 22 ESCAPE FROM POLYGAMY 39 LEADING LADIES Women and children fleeing fundamentalist Mormon communities find hope and a safe Undeterred place to land among the loving volunteers of Holding Out HELP. 40 OFF THE SHELF 26 SAVING BATHSHEBA Book reviews When spiritual leaders sexually abuse the people under their care, the entire body of Christ suffers. 43 WORD, DEED & SPIRIT Blue Like Rock 30 THE DANGEROUS LIE THAT WE TELL A look at the choices we face when dealing with the church’s heretical promise of 44 WASHINGTON WATCH earthly euphoria. Mary and Money “I, the Lord, have called you to 45 A DIFFERENT SHADE OF GREEN demonstrate my righteousness. Peace Begins on Our Plates 5 I will take you by the hand and guard you, and I will give you to 46 ON BEING THE CHURCH Wonder-Working Power my people, Israel, as a symbol of my covenant with them. And 48 RON SIDER you will be a light to guide the Should We Call It Sin? nations. You will open the eyes of the blind. You will free the captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons.” Isaiah 42:6-7 Freedom for the Captives We’re told malevolence that inhabits the world so brazenly in that this slave the form of human trafficking and the satanic bul- “earned a lying directed at the most vulnerable members of great deal our global family? of money for Regardless of our motivation—whether it’s her owners annoyance over personal inconvenience, such as Reflections from the Editor from Reflections by fortune- seeing our neighborhoods uglified by prostitution telling,” but and plagued by exploitative labor practices, or righ- apparently teous indignation at the terrible injustice of oppres- she was so sion—do we turn and confront evil when we see it, distracted by or do we tolerate it as the inevitable white noise of D ealing with various forms of slavery around the the presence of the godly group that she got up a fallen world? world today, this issue of PRISM has been created and started following them around and shouting, I recently learned of a young American wom- to mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation “These men are servants of the Most High God, an, barely out of her teens, who is awaiting the birth Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln on Janu- who are telling you the way to be saved!”—over of a baby she plans to place for adoption. From ary 1, 1863, in the middle of his nation’s bloody civil and over and over again “for many days.” The spirit what we know about her life, we suspect that she war. Although woefully limited in its reach—it de- in her recognized these men as agents of God and has been sexually trafficked. She doesn’t know who clared freedom for slaves in the “rebellious states” just wouldn’t shut up about it. the baby’s father is, and we know that she has used but ignored slavery in other areas of the coun- We expect the slave’s owners to be annoyed drugs and already served time in prison. It is not try—it was a critical turning point for the nation. By by the disruption of their fortune-telling business, hard to imagine the abuse and brutality to which the war’s end close to 200,000 black soldiers had but the first exasperation reported comes from she has been subjected in her young life. She’s HIV- joined the Union military so that for the first time Paul, who “became so annoyed that he turned positive and has cancer for which she cannot re- both free and newly freed men fought side by side. around and said to the spirit, ‘In the name of Jesus ceive treatment while pregnant. Bringing this baby While an exciting chapter in history, the Christ I command you to come out of her!’ At that to term and making sure the child is placed in a lov- Emancipation Proclamation is a sobering reminder moment the spirit left her.” ing home is likely her last chance to do something of how the fight for justice is always flawed and Why was Paul annoyed? After all, he was good in the world. She is dying, but in dying she never complete. It would be almost another decade getting free—and truthful!—advertising from the offers her child a life. This broken young woman is before black men had the right to vote and almost spirit in this woman. And why wasn’t the exorcism a victim of terrible injustice, yes, but she is also a another century before the Civil Rights Movement motivated by love for the woman rather than irrita- hero. And in my prayers, this week anyway, she is fought for full integration of the descendants of tion at the spirit? Why didn’t Paul take issue with the the face of Jesus for me. slavery in American society. Today, while slavery is woman’s owners, who were taking advantage of the Let’s remember that our time, too, is limited illegal in every country, the global slave trade is big- poor woman and profiting from the evil spirit that in this world. What good thing do we want to leave ger—and the price of a slave smaller—than ever. inhabited her? behind in the world before we go? Accepting that, But as you’ll see in the following pages, awareness It wasn’t until later, when they “realized that like the Emancipation Proclamation, our efforts will of the evils of slavery is also more widespread their hope of making money was gone,” that the be imperfect and incomplete, in what way can we, than ever, and everyday citizens are enlisted in the owners “seized Paul and Silas and dragged them like this young mother, incarnate Christ by making fight in record numbers. In fact, all of us can and into the marketplace to face the authorities.” The sure that someone—even one person—is safe should be active abolitionists—whether through men were flogged, imprisoned, and eventually from a life of abuse and exploitation because we prayer and financial partnership with groups on the freed, but what about the slave woman? We never sacrificed something to make it so? You’ll find no ground, keeping our eyes and ears open to suspi- hear from her again. lack of ideas in these pages. cious activity in our own neighborhoods, or training Like I said, it’s a crazy story. But it makes me for more direct engagement in prevention, law en- think. As we Christ-followers walk through the world, forcement, or aftercare. are we easily recognizable as K ristyn Komarnicki is in awe of how God uses pain There’s a crazy story about a slave in Acts 16. bearers of light? Is anyone an- to teach us about his passionate love for us. She’d Paul and Silas and a bunch of their pals were go- nouncing, “There go servants prefer that he taught us painlessly, but she’s smart ing to pray in the Roman colony of Philippi, a place of the Most High who know where slavery was a legal and accepted feature of the secret of salvation!” as we enough to know that she’s not smart enough to the culture, when they “were met by a female slave pass? Do we get annoyed at the come up with a better plan than God’s (although who had a spirit by which she predicted the future.” evil that dogs our steps, at the that doesn’t stop her from trying).
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