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COLUMBIA BROWN Baseball Player Judson Center Is Bold as a ‘Lion’ Is a Ministry Hub ChristianChristianthe magazine :: UnionUnionfall 2014 Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s Leaders. God Is Changing Lives at Eight Strategic Universities page 12 Special Section: In the Power of the Spirit Ivy League Spiritual Climate The latest from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton & Yale 1 The Erosion of Religious Freedom: California’s Landmark Decision FULL-TUITION SCHOLARSHIP through the partnership program How does it work? your partners yo u, equipped you gordon-conwell stewardship training your church no debt Prepare for a lifetime of fruitful ministry, surrounded by a network of support, equipped with stewardship skills and free from unnecessary debt. Through the Partnership Program at Gordon-Conwell, you’ll bring a team of prayer and financial partners, and you’ll receive a full-tuition scholarship and biblical stewardship training. www.gordonconwell.edu/partnership 800.428.7329 table of contents volume xiii issue IV Christian Union the magazine :: fall 2014 in each issue Letter from the President / 3 30 Donor Profile / 17 What’s Next / 32 12 34 6 In the Power of the Spirit fall 2014 feature section Earnestly Seeking Spiritual Gifts / 8 Q & A with Quincy Watkins / 10 Ken Fish’s Kingdom Fire / 11 12 From the University to the City Columbia Pitcher Is Bold as a Lion / 14 Frat Brothers Pledge Devotion to Christ / 15 university christian union updates FALL on the web Harvard / 17 Cornell / 18 Yale / 20 Princeton / 21 2014 :: ChristianUnion.org Brown / 23 Penn / 24 Harvard Law / 26 Twitter.com/ChristianUnion Facebook.com/Christian.Union city christian union CHRISTIANUNION . New York City Christian Union / 28 the magazine This magazine is published by 34 The Spiritual Climate in the Ivy League Christian Union, an independent updates from every ivy league university . ORG Christian ministry. An Advocate for Samaritans (Brown) :: Fools for Love? . (Columbia) :: Cross-Linked A Cappella (Harvard) :: cover photo The Grand iracleM (Princeton) :: Vita et Veritas (Yale) :: 1 Phil Anema News-in-Brief from each university, and more. Christian Union THE MAGAZINE volume xiii issue iv fall 2014 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Matthew Bennett EXECUTIVE EDITORS Dan Knapke Lorri Bentch managing EDITOR Tom Campisi CReatiVE DIRECTOR Patrick Dennis SENIOR WRITER Eileen Scott StaFF WRITER Catherine Elvy FIELD REPORTERS Luke Foster Brian Zhang Rosalie Doerksen PHOTO EDITOR Pam Traeger CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Sarah Camp PROOFREADER Rachel Mari ART DIRECTOR Michelle Taylor PRODUCTION Bethany Wakeley FEEDBACK OR SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES 240 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 or via e-mail: [email protected] NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS Do you know someone who would enjoy a free subscription to this magazine? Please use either address above to pass along their names. two events to commemorate the launch of a ministry at brown—the Eighth of the Ancient Eight ivy league universities where By God’s power and with the help of other ministries, christian union develops leaders Christian Union’s mission is to transform the world by developing and connecting bold Christian leaders. The ministry was founded in 2002 in Princeton, New Jersey. dallas Learn more at ChristianUnion.org 10.28.14 hilton dallas/park cities ©2014 Christian Union. All rights reserved. Christian Union: The Magazine is published quarterly. Its goal is to encourage and inform Christian alumni, students, par- ents, staff, faculty, and friends about Christian Union’s new york city work—and about other spiritual activity—at eight of this country’s most influential colleges, and in key cities. Our desire is that this publication would inspire readers 12.09.14 to seek God, to use their influence for the cause of Christ, the roosevelt hotel to pray, and to give financially to Christian initiatives that are bringing about culture change for God’s glory. To request an advertising rate card, please e-mail Tom. [email protected]. postmaster: Send address changes to: Christian Union, 240 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 Christian Union letter from the president THE MAGAZINE volume xiii issue iv fall 2014 ebrews 13:8 reminds us that Although it was unsettling, the “Jesus Christ is the same experience made believers out of those Timeless Truths yesterday and today and who were skeptical that such things Hforever.” His teachings are to be happen today. About Our appreciated in every generation, and At Christian Union, we believe His lifestyle is to be imitated in every that training in supernatural ministry Supernatural generation, including His dependence is important because the need for on the power of the Holy Spirit for revelation, healing, and deliverance God miraculous intervention. Miracles are (casting out demons) is as pressing at signs from God that the kingdom of highly academic campuses as anywhere heaven has been inaugurated, and an else. God has designed humans not implicit promise that it will be fully only as intelligent beings, but as beings consummated on the last day. Even with a spirit, capable of interacting in though much of American society, and the supernatural context in which we especially academia, is very secular in live. I want to encourage you, even “Jesus Christ is the same its outlook, God hasn’t changed, and if perhaps operating in this realm is yesterday and today neither has the need for miraculous unfamiliar, to branch out and learn intervention. more about the Holy Spirit’s ministry and forever.” It’s important to teach the deep in these ways. For an introduction to —Hebrews 13:8 truths of the Christian faith, so the subject, including the Biblical basis that we may fully believe all the for the operation of the miraculous in doctrines of God, not shrinking back modern times, I would recommend from uncomfortable or unfamiliar Jack Deere’s book, Surprised by the Voice characteristics of our supernatural of God. I’ve seen God use the book to God. He speaks today, heals today, and change many lives over the years. This uses His servants to cast out demons, issue of our magazine has several articles just as He always has. dedicated to this important subject, FALL Recently, at an event for alumni which you also will find helpful. in a beautiful apartment on Park 2014 :: Avenue in New York City, Ken Fish Sincerely in Christ, (Princeton ‘82) taught on this subject CHRISTIANUNION and demonstrated how God’s power works through us. He gave words of knowledge to those of us gathered, Matthew W. Bennett and perhaps most dramatically, by the . power of God, drove two demons out matt BENNETT is the president and ORG of a woman who had been plagued founder of Christian Union. He earned for decades. The demons fought it, undergraduate and MBA degrees from 3 and even yelled through her, “No, Cornell, and launched Christian Union no!”—but they obeyed and departed. in 2002 in Princeton, New Jersey. religious freedom A Watershed Moment? California’s De-Recognition of InterVarsity Raises Concerns BY CatheRINE ELVY, StaFF WRITER ampus ministries are facing a ter, Bowdoin College, also derecognized this generation of students an opportu- mounting series of equal-access InterVarsity. nity to reinvent campus ministry,” said challenges from colleges across “This should call local churches to a Greg Jao, InterVarsity’s national field di- Cthe nation. season of fresh investment. I am under- rector, in a press release. Among the action, California’s pub- stating myself here. Every local church Of particular concern, InterVarsi- lic university system recently denied that is near a college campus should so- ty will no longer be able to participate recognition to InterVarsity Christian berly consider retrofitting and enhanc- in student organization fairs within the Fellowship (www.ivcf.org) because it re- ing its ministry to the school,” Strachan California college system. Instead, the quires student leaders to observe Chris- wrote in a blog. ministry will attempt to reach out to tian beliefs. In September, the California State University ended recognition for Inter- Varsity’s chapters because they mandate student leaders to adhere to Christian doctrine. “This could be the tipping point of other university systems moving in this direction, so that’s why we are con- cerned,” said Alec Hill, president of In- terVarsity, in an article for Christianity Today. “It’s as if the First Amendment now protects Greeks, but not religious folks, which is Alice in Wonderland stuff.” San Jose State is one of 23 University of California campuses where InterVarsity is no longer Christian Union Founder and Pres- recognized as a student organization. ident Matt Bennett echoed those com- ments. “It’s a very sobering event for Chris- “Campus ministries will, in increas- students via interactive displays, social tianity,” said Bennett, Cornell ’88, MBA ing number, be unable to do things like media, mobile banner stands, and other ’89. reserve a dining room or meeting space. non-traditional means. MAGAZINE Bennett called California’s decision But, local churches – at least at this point “InterVarsity is introducing creative THE part of an alarming trend that reduces in American life – are not inhibited from new ways to connect with students and : : Christians to second-class citizens. “It’s doing all they can to reach out to students share the Gospel message, though doing another terrible step toward the seculariza- and invite them to trust Christ and join so as an ‘unrecognized’ student group UNION tion of our nation,” he said. As such, be- the congregation. This we should all do in will prove considerably more costly,” Jao lievers “need to be much more aggressive.” greater measure in coming days.” wrote. Likewise, theologian Owen Strachan In response to the California action, California’s university system asserts CHRISTIAN described the California decision as a InterVarsity is revamping its style of InterVarsity’s leadership policy conflicts 4 “watershed moment” and perhaps only ministry into one that does not rely on with its state-mandated nondiscrimi- the “low point of the wave.” Earlier this established campus structures.