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COVER STORY Just as I am Donald Trump is gaining traction among many self-proclaimed evangelical voters, but some stretch 34 the label ‘evangelical’ to the breaking point WHERE THEY STAND: The presidential election could have a big impact on religious liberty

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 42 Conservatives vs. 3 Joel Belz Trump Many voters see Donald 5 DISPATCHES Trump’s candidacy as a News challenge to the GOP Human Race establishment, but it is Quotables 21 Quick Takes conservative activists—and largely not establishment 18 Janie B. Cheaney Republicans in Washington— who are sounding alarms 21 CULTURE Movies & TV 46 The Son of God and Books the ‘sons of the land’ Q&A Ethnic Malays make up a Music largely unreached people group—in a nation with mega 32 Mindy Belz churches and missionaries. 55 NOTEBOOK 46 Some Christians are now Lifestyle undertaking the dangerous work of preaching the Technology gospel to them Science Houses of God 50 Amicus politics 61 The Texas abortion case Mailbag 50 illustrates how left-leaning 63 Andrée Seu medical associations Peterson influence the nation’s highest courts 64 Marvin Olasky

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JOEL BELZ a favorite candidate, only four said they wanted Hillary Clinton and two preferred Ted Cruz. All the remaining 21 split almost evenly between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Yes, the two improbable candidates I referred to in my Jan. 22 column as “crazy uncles” were clearing the table right here in the mountains of North Carolina. Back to Walmart But if the exercise was depressing in numer- IN CANDIDATE SURVEY, ORDINARY FOLKS ical results, it was much more so with reference to the respondents’ reasons. Austin B. minced DIDN’T EXACTLY INSPIRE CONFIDENCE no words. He was for Sanders and forcefully declared, almost as if he’d I am in no sense a political expert. But been rehearsing his answer: R this year, what does that matter? Neither “It’s time for the U.S. to join is anyone else. That realization is all it took for the progressive folks in me, a few days ago, to head out again to my Europe and the rest of the favorite spot just outside the front door of my world with a grown-up civili- neighborhood Walmart. I wanted to find out zation.” Irma F. set the tone what the locals were thinking. when she asked offhandedly: If you’re new to this column, it may help you “Don’t you think it’s Hillary’s to know that every now and then I try to forget turn?” the experts and go instead to the ordinary If there was a theme of people—the folks, for instance, who shop at thoughtfulness running Walmart. If it’s the experts who have messed through the comments, things up so badly, maybe we commoners have respondents seemed to something to contribute to the process of setting worry most about honesty. things straight again. Matt R. was hedging his bets, Maybe. But maybe not. If this week’s visit to for example, when he Walmart is any indicator, we’d better keep pointed quickly to Trump but looking for our savior. If there was a observed, “If he’s telling the truth, maybe he I talked briefly with 31 shoppers. My pitch can do something. But if he’s not, well then, was simple and, I think, polite and nonthreat- theme of he’ll be just like all the others.” Jan S. said she ening: “Ma’am, may I interrupt you for less than thoughtful- preferred Sanders because “he seems most a minute? I write for a national magazine, and ness running honest,” but drew a blank when I asked for an I’d like your opinion.” And then I showed them a example or two of what she meant. simple sheet with the faces of Bernie Sanders, through the Halfway through the exercise, I was struck Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Cruz. comments, with how shallow and frivolous this exercise “If the election were held today, which of these respondents really was. That’s when Tim Paschall, Walmart’s would you vote for?” And if they were bold assistant manager for the day, came out and enough to point to one of the four, I pressed a seemed to told me I’d have to move on. Divisive activities bit further: “Can you tell me why?” worry most like mine annoyed their shoppers, he said, and I was surprised that only four of the 31 about honesty. one woman had said she wouldn’t come back if I declined my request. “That’s private informa- was allowed to “accost” people the way I was. So tion, between me and God,” said Michael F.— just to keep the record straight, bear in mind that and I agreed with him that we should be Walmart shoppers don’t carry the whole blame thankful to live in a country where that is so. “I for the collapse of our culture. Indeed, the last have a whole week before our primary, don’t I?” 16 responses came from folks at Aldi grocery said Angela M. “Don’t hurry me.” Monica G. store and Lowe’s home improvement center. confused me when she said how much she likes And if your heart is heavy over a presidential most of Trump’s ideas—“But he’s way too race that seems consumed with thin process pushy, and I just think I won’t vote.” and knows so little of substance, keep this in But here’s what made my knees knock while mind: The common folk of society may have no gathering my little (and statistically meaning- more extensive a claim on wisdom and virtue less) survey. Out of the 27 folks who pointed to than the experts do. A KRIEG BARRIE KRIEG

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MARCH 11 LAID TO REST Celebrities, politicians, family, and friends gathered to pay respects to former first lady Nancy Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Nancy Reagan, who died March 6 at the age of 94, was known for her elegance, her “Just Say No” anti- drug campaign, and her fierce loyalty to her husband, the 40th president of the United States. Her two children, Patti Davis and Ron Reagan, spoke admiringly of the love between their parents, whom Davis called “two halves of a circle.” Attendees at the funeral, which Nancy had planned beforehand, included Michelle Obama; George W. Bush and his wife, Laura; Hillary Clinton; and yet another former first lady, Rosalynn Carter. CHRIS CARLSON/AP CHRIS

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MARCH 13 Over 1 million copies sold… TERROR IN TURKEY A car bomb explosion rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing at least 34 persons and wounding 125 others—the third NOW WITH A terrorist attack in Ankara since last October. Security officials blamed members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a separatist group, for the car FRESH NEW LOOK. bombing and sent Turkish warplanes to strike the group’s camps in northern Iraq. A two- year cease-fire between Turkish forces and the PKK, which the United States classifies as a terrorist organization, fell apart last summer, leading to an increase in violence. The PKK typically targets security forces rather than civilians: The car bombing may indicate a change in tactics.

MARCH 11 TRUMP VIOLENCE? Skirmishes broke out between protesters and supporters of ANKARA: EROL UCEM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • RALLY: CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP presidential candidate Donald Trump in Chicago after the Republican front-runner canceled a rally there, citing security concerns over the large number of GOD’S HITLER’S CHRIST AMONG ONE MINUTE protesters. Trump claimed he DEVIL CROSS OTHER GODS AFTER YOU DIE wasn’t responsible for the violence and instead said that overall the An intriguing Critical, timely Takes tolerance A moving explanation event was “a positive in terms of overview of lessons from Hitler’s and truth head-to- of what the Bible votes.” GOP candidates Sen. Ted Satan’s fall, work, hold on the church of head and reveals says about death Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich condemned the protests but and demise. Nazi Germany. a clear winner. and eternity. claimed Trump’s tone encourages violence. Speaking to supporters at a February rally, Trump had asked his supporters to beat up protesters: “I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.” He later walked back the comment. AVAILABLE AT YOUR

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In Florida, splintered opposition was a moot point, even though anti- Trump groups poured some $16 million into attack ads. Trump still won 46 percent of the vote, eclipsing the combined totals of Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio immediately suspended his campaign and urged his supporters not to give in to the fear and frustration Biblical worldview. Quality academics. Competitive edge. that has dominated the GOP primary season: “While it is not God’s plan that I be president in 2016 or maybe ever … the fact that I have even come this far is evidence of how special PMS 289 and 2995 America truly is, and all the reason more why we must do all we can to ensure that this nation remains a special place.” Rubio’s exit means his 169 delegates will be unbound heading into the convention, roughly doubling the pool Trump can try to move into his camp ‘All the way to Cleveland’ in order to secure the nomination on KASICH VICTORY IN OHIO COMPLICATES AN ALREADY the first ballot. If he doesn’t, almost all CHAOTIC REPUBLICAN RACE by J.C. Derrick delegates will become free agents for the second ballot. Many Rubio supporters began A Republican Party desperate for Gov. John Kasich’s emphatic home- calling for the party to unite behind R clarity didn’t get much in a spate state win will be a big reason why. Cruz, the only challenger left with a of mid-March primaries that may have Yet Kasich’s victory also made a mathematical chance of winning the sent the GOP hurtling toward its first contested convention the only plausi- nomination—and the only one with a contested convention in 40 years. ble way for anti-Trump conservatives realistic chance of catching Trump. “What we all thought would never to deny Trump the GOP nomination. With few signs that will happen, some happen—a convention fight—now has a Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest chal- conservatives have started making better-than-even chance of occurring,” lenger, badly needed a one-on-one contingency plans: Even before voters Republican pollster Neil Newhouse matchup and now won’t get it. Despite went to the polls on March 15, a group told The Wall Street Journal. “We only one primary win, Kasich vowed to of influential conservative activists haven’t seen a presidential election go “all the way to Cleveland,” seemingly had scheduled a meeting in SANCYA/AP PAUL • RUBIO: IMAGES GETTY VIA WRIGHT/BLOOMBERG TY KASICH: like this before, and we’re unlikely to guaranteeing the anti-Trump vote will Washington, D.C., to discuss a poten- see one like it again.” remain splintered throughout the tial third-party candidacy in case the As snow began melting into spring, primary calendar. general election features Trump and billionaire businessman former Secretary of State Hillary Donald Trump maintained a Clinton. stranglehold on his front- In the meantime, Trump has a long runner status, but losses to way to go before he becomes the three different challengers in Republican standard-bearer, and the the campaign continued to possibility remains that the eventual Bob Jones University graphic design students have won more siphon critical delegates. If nominee may not even be currently in Trump, who has about half the race. When a reporter asked House than 40 prestigious American Advertising Awards! At BJU the delegates he needs, Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s 2012 you’ll stretch your artistic vision, master design technology and arrives in Cleveland this vice presidential nominee, if he would formulate a biblical philosophy of design. Then you’ll dive into summer for the Republican accept a presidential nomination at a National Convention without deadlocked convention, he wouldn’t internships and real-world freelance opportunities—and graduate A the necessary 1,237, Ohio rule it out: “Who knows?” (19081) 2/16 ready for success in your field!

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d YEMEN persons, including four nuns, at a Missionaries of Charity convent and nursing home on March 4. A kidnapped priest remains missing. NORTH KOREA NORTH claimed North Korean scientists have developed warheads nuclear small ballistic fit to in enough missiles. Reports from the United Around the globe North Africa’s MORE NEWSMORE THE WEBSITE: OF WORLD OUR ON IS WNG.ORG NEWS SOUTH SUDANSOUTH Amnesty and Nations International found that South Sudanese troops have suffocatedcivilians. and burned, raped, In a surprise move, Russian President APRIL 2, 2016 IVORY COAST IVORY al-Qaeda branch killed 18 persons at a beach resort on March 13, its first attack in the country.

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MARCH 30 A trio of virtual reality or augmented reality headsets are scheduled to roll out in 2016 as tech firms race to cash in on what they hope is the next big thing. Microsoft’s HoloLens, a wireless augmented reality device, debuts first on March 30. According to the tech giant, the HoloLens can project a holographic image into the wearer’s field of vision without connecting to a computer or a smartphone. The headset’s price: $3,000.

MARCH 27 Because of a byzantine rule change by the United States Olympic Committee, marketing MARCH 31 According to the National campaigns starring Park Service, Washington, D.C.’s famed Japanese American Olympic cherry trees will achieve their peak bloom on hopefuls are likely to March 31 this year, days begin flooding the ahead of the traditional airwaves today. Last April 4 timing. The summer, the USOC blooming of trees is agreed to allow the centerpiece nonsponsors to use of the District’s American Olympians in National Cherry their advertisements Blossom during the Summer Games provided the Festival, which nonsponsor’s marketing last year campaign runs attracted around “continuously starting no 1.5 million visitors to later than March 27.” the nation’s capital.

APRIL 1 Chicago Public Schools will likely butt heads with teachers today over contract and budget disputes. In March, the Chicago Teachers Union called for a “day of action” and a general strike to protest Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. School district CEO Forrest Claypool warned teachers to remain on the job.

APRIL 8 Without an additional $50 million in cash, Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Alycia Meriweather said, the debt-ridden school district will no longer be able to pay teachers or staff after April 8. Detroit Public Schools has already reached its limit on the number of emergency loans it

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NOMINATED President Barack Obama on March 16 announced his choice for the next Supreme Court justice: Merrick Garland, the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. Garland, 63, would be expected to cast often liberal votes, although he has a reputation as a cen- trist. Bill Clinton first nominated Garland to the D.C. Circuit in 1995, and 32 Republican senators eventually voted for his confirmation. That may not happen this time: Republican senators have repeatedly promised to oppose any Supreme Court nomination before the next president takes the White House. SMALLEY: DANSMALLEY: DAVIS • ODOM: PHOTOGRAPHY COEUR D’ALENE POLICE DEPARTMENT/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW/AP

DIED JAILED Best-selling Christian author and speaker Gary Smalley died March 6 at the age of 75. Smalley A federal court sentenced wrote or co-authored dozens of books, including If Only He Knew and For Better or for Best, dishing Matthew Lane Durham, 21, out biblical and practical advice on marriage and relationships. Smalley and his wife, Norma, to 40 years in prison on began conducting marriage seminars in the 1970s while he served as a pastor in Waco, Texas. March 7 for sexually They went on to found what became known as the Smalley Relationship Center, and Smalley assaulting children at a appeared on Oprah and NBC’s Today Show as couples from around the world looked to him for Kenyan orphanage. The insight on their marriages. Smalley’s son Greg said his dad followed his own advice, prioritizing former missions volunteer his family and marriage in spite of a busy ministry: “He was always working on the next thing in from Oklahoma was his life to grow in. … He would say, ‘I’ve never arrived. I’ll arrive when I get to heaven.’” convicted in January for misconduct at Nairobi’s Upendo Children’s Home between April and June of ARRESTED 2014. Durham’s case high- The Secret Service apprehended Kyle Odom in lights a need for better Washington, D.C., on March 8, two days after volunteer vetting at many Odom allegedly shot an Idaho pastor six foreign orphanages: It and times. Odom, a former Marine who suffered a similar cases in recent breakdown in 2014, had flown to Washington years have stirred local to try to deliver a message about a Martian suspicion against foreign invasion to President Obama. According to a volunteers in Kenya. paranoid manifesto written by Odom, he believed Pastor Tim Remington of The Altar Church in Coeur d’Alene to be one of hordes of froglike aliens that had invaded the country SENTENCED in human disguise. Remington is expected to A Turkish court on March 4 recover from his wounds. sentenced two migrant

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‘This matter has been ‘We discussed. We have received didn’t lose a information about it and single person.’ have referred it to the FBI to Former Secretary of State consider HILLARY CLINTON on U.S. operations whether or not in Libya. Clinton didn’t mention the it meets the deaths of four Americans, including criteria for U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, which we could during a militant attack on take action on.’ the U.S. consulate in U.S. Attorney General Benghazi in 2012. LORETTA LYNCH on whether the Justice Department has RISBERG/AP ERIC • LYNCH: IMAGES WHITTAKER/GETTY MAX • DOWD: WWO FOR IMAGES LOCCISANO/GETTY MICHAEL • POEHLER: KASTER/AP CAROLYN CLINTON: considered civil action against companies that argue the science of climate change is unsettled. ‘2,786 gallons a day.’ The amount of water used per day last summer by comedian AMY POEHLER and her two children, according to the Los Angeles Times. The average family of four uses 400 gallons per day, according to the EPA. ‘There’s two Donald Trumps. … They’re not the same person. One’s ‘Hillary has very much an built a large tanker entertainer, and ship, and she’s about to one is actually a thinking confront Somali pirates.’ individual.’ MATTHEW DOWD, chief strategist for former Former GOP presidential President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign, candidate BEN CARSON, who on the differences in style between has endorsed Donald Trump for president, on the billion- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aire businessman’s demeanor should they face each other in when he’s not on television the presidential election. or in front of a big audience.

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ILLUSTRATION: KRIEG BARRIE • ANCHORAGE: JAY CHRISTENSEN/IOS VIA AP IMAGES • LIGGETT: MICHAEL CHRITTON/AKRON BEACON JOURNAL VIA AP • NIZHNY: LENIKOVALEVA/ISTOCK , Russia, Novgorod March 5 ceremonial start. 5 March , the trek’s starting point. fix the To Dog essentials sled Alaska Railroad two days ahead of the race’s less than half the normal amount, has fallen in Anchorage thing—snow. Since July, only 27 inches of snow, As the opening day of the Iditarod dog sled race problem, organizers 1,000-mile the of endurance the city. The shipped snow arrived courtesy of the race ordered 350 cubic yards of snow imported to approached in Alaska, race officials still lacked one Paid in prayer Paid both the company and its employees are growing.” and … worked out an unusual payment plan with a creditor. In exchange for a have already felt the fruits of their prayers, as prosperity indicators for had installed a boiler heating system in a building owned by the diocese, agreed to pray for the company and its employees. The construction firm Shorton money, a Russian Orthodox diocese in Nizhny but asked for the prayers when church officials failed to pay off the entire construction debt, $3,000 than more company waiving in Orthodox clergy bill. “We respect the diocese and we are all Orthodox believers,” a company official said. “It’ll be on their conscience if they don’t, but we trust them and - QUICKTAKES is finally graduating from Routine robbery The court gave Pyper a five-year prison sentence. APRIL 2, 2016

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Akron Beacon It worked the first three times. But Jason Pyper’s fourth robbery attempt of a execution of three consecutive robberies at the 7-Eleven last summer, police DISPATCHES a sentencing court on March 4, describing security video. Pyper “Mr. basically caught up with Pyper as he and an accomplice fled with $7,000 worth of stolen immediately goes for the cigarette drawer. can You almost count out the steps.” cigarettes on his fourth attempt on the same store. “His movements throughout the store are almost choreographed carbon copies,” prosecutor Paul Cooper told Journal 16 Dorothy Louise Liggett Louise Dorothy high school—74 years behind schedule. The 93-year-old from Fairlawn, Ohio, was two months shy of graduating from North High School in 1942 when the school learned she was married and per manently expelled Liggett her. ultimately left town to travel the country with her husband, a member of the Army Air Forces. Yet she regretted no having diploma. “I felt terrible for the way Mrs. Liggett was of all treated yearsthose Akron ago,” Public Schools Superintendent David James told the Class of ’42 surprise visit to Liggett’s home on her birthday, James presented a diploma in her name. “I always felt bad not having this,” Liggett said. “Even though I’m 93 years old, I still like having it.” Reimagined road Tired of honoring a former Soviet leader with a street name, a Ukrainian village has changed Lenin Street into Lennon Street. Regional Gov. Gennadiy Moskal says he made the decision to honor former Beatles member John Lennon in the tiny village of Kalyny on his own. The March 2 road rebranding sprang from an April 2015 law banning public displays of Ukraine’s Communist past.

Overdue honor Better late than never. After seven decades, a World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor has finally received a half-dozen military medals for his combat service. About 100 well-wishers turned out for an event honoring 96-year-old James Blakely at the Fort Hamilton Community Club in New York City on March 5. The Brooklyn event brought back many memories for the former Navy cook. “I’m getting what I didn’t think I would ever get,” Blakely said. “I have a lot of memories. I wish I could say all my memories were joyful.”

Wily caddie Never trust a fox with your golf bag. An unidentified man in Louth, Ireland, learned that lesson the hard way when a crafty fox nearly got away with his wallet. According to a video of the incident posted to Twitter in early March, several golfers at County Louth Golf Club paused on the links in order to watch a curious fox rummage through one player’s golf bag. But amusement turned to panic for the Wild kids in town nearest onlooker as the mischievous red fox Authorities in Blackball, New Zealand, say a herd of snatched an item from the bag and darted wild goats is causing thousands of dollars’ worth of toward a nearby hill. “Hey, that’s me wallet!” the man property damage in the small town. The 16 goats cried. A brief foot chase persuaded the animal to drop the purloined billfold. are also causing a general panic among the 330 village residents. “They just come through and wreck everyone’s garden,” Grey District Council animal control officer Murray Malloch toldThe New Invasive maneuvers Zealand Herald. “They eat it and then move on to New Zealanders who frequent the Marlborough Sounds are accustomed to another one.” Malloch said the wild goats have inconsiderate boaters creating disruptive wakes in the bays. But recent actions existed for years, but through rampant reproduc- by one Australian navy frigate really made waves. According to more than a tion have become pests. One local resident has dozen complaints received by a harbor master, the 387-foot-long HMAS offered to shoot the herd and turn it into meat. Warramunga made a series of sharp, high-speed turns in a local harbor in late February, creating a wake so large it damaged multiple boats and a fish farm. “Maritime hoonery would be a good way to describe [it],” harbor advocate Paul Keating told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A spokesman for the Australian military said the navy would alter

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g Visit our website—wng.org—for breaking news and more APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 17 JANIE B. CHEANEY study showing a marked rise in early death among white men aged 45-54. Since 2000 the rate has risen by 34 per 100,000, while every other demographic group has seen increased life expectancy, however slight. Causes of death include alcohol and drug poisoning, liver diseases, and suicide. Middle-aged white males also report more ill health in general, more Forgotten men chronic pain, and more alcohol dependence THE COUNTRY HAS AN UNACKNOWLEDGED than other groups, even though their skin color supposedly “privileges” them. EPIDEMIC OF YOUNG MEN WITHOUT FUTURES The Princeton report got some weekend airtime, then disappeared. Last Christmas, one of my nephews became Considering that adult white R a statistic: 24, unemployed, unmarried, males are still the bedrock of father of three, dead of a heroin overdose. America’s workforce, why I disapproved of his parents, my in-laws, and did it not grab more that’s a confession. I prayed for them, but didn’t headlines? try to understand them. She was a drama queen In a 1932 radio address, before that term leapt into the vernacular, apt President Roosevelt spoke of to wrest any trivial transaction into Episode the “forgotten man,” the man 2,476 of Days of Our Lives. He was temper-prone, “at the bottom of the eco- making for a stormy household peppered with nomic pyramid.” Amity Shlaes holes punched in the walls. took that term as the title for We speak of “living in the moment” as her 2008 history of the Great though that were a good thing—and it is, when Depression: The Forgotten understood as being open to life as it unfolds. Man. That is, the typical But for many people, “living in the moment” He wasn’t working stiff who bore the consequences of a means they never plan and seldom ponder the series of unfortunate events: falling markets, consequences of their words or actions—what an innocent rising unemployment, and—in time—relentless right now might mean for next year, or even victim, but government experimentation that probably made next week. Governed by simple action and he was the situation worse. His problems were chiefly reaction, they hopped from one right now to the economic. What he needed most was a job. next without really going anywhere. overlooked, Today’s Forgotten Man needs a future. His Careless child-raising resulted in careless especially by culture tells him he’s a bigot, a sexist, and even children. The marriage fell apart, and the kids people like me worse: superfluous. He probably didn’t grow up went on to early pregnancies, DUIs, jail time, with his father. His temper was not checked; his babies I couldn’t keep track of, and moving in who usually appetites were not trained; his virtues were not and out of mom’s house because they couldn’t noticed when encouraged. My nephew, I heard, had come to keep a job. Time and hard knocks eventually looking down. Jesus; but when I accepted his Facebook friend mellowed the parents, but last Christmas request, my news feed bulged with vulgar knocked them flat. memes and images. I blocked him—and forgot The statistics: Heroin use has spiked among him. He wasn’t an innocent victim, but he was young white males (ages 18-25), especially in overlooked, especially by people like me who the Midwest. In 2014 there were 47,000 cases usually noticed when looking down. of lethal overdose in the United States, about In the fourth season of Friday Night Lights, two-thirds of those due to heroin and prescrip- talented young quarterback Vince Howard, still tion painkillers like oxycodone. Cracking down hanging with his drug-dealer peeps, finally

on the over-prescription of “oxy” has probably stops living in the moment: “I’m s’posed to bury SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES fueled the demand for a substitute, and the vol- my mama! My mama’s not s’posed to bury me!” ume of heroin seizures at the Mexican border My nephew never got that message, maybe has quadrupled since 2000. because he didn’t have a football to hold on to. I Meanwhile, the fathers of these young men A drug user hope he had Jesus, but it’s hard to know what to aren’t doing so well either. Last November prepares heroin in tell his mama. And what can I tell the forgotten Princeton University released a comprehensive St. Johnsbury, Vt. man down the road from me? A

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Noah would be a climate- the Lord for rescuing him change cautionary tale or from the paw of the lion, Christian Bale saying that needs Saul’s daughter, MOVIE his portrayal of Moses was Michal, to remind him to inspired by schizophrenia, praise God for his Eye in ABC’s marketing for Of triumphs? Kings and Prophets has This brings up the the Sky relied heavily on the nov- show’s most fatal misstep— elty of a Scripture-inspired the same one that sunk saga with lots of sex and NBC seven years ago and is violence. So much sex and actually something that violence, in fact, they’ve Game of Thrones, for all its said they won’t be able to faults, gets right. Part of air it all during the show’s what makes George R.R. regular broadcast. “We Martin’s history-inspired have more leeway with fantasy so engaging is that online content,” creator while the characters’ Adam Cooper told Variety in motives are familiar, their January. “In the broadcast worldview is thoroughly Drone warfare has last role), to switch the version, we kind of have to medieval. Our sanctimo- R been a hot-button objective from “capture” to subject for several years “kill” using a U.S. military cut around it and do it in nious 21st-century percep- now, as rapid technological drone missile. pieces, but in the online tions are not only often innovations blast mankind Things get complicated version, I think we can severely stunted, they’re into uncharted territories. when a 9-year-old girl show it as we originally also boring to watch. Eye in the Sky (rated R for (Aisha Takow, a real-life intended.” Consider 1 Samuel 15 in brief gruesome images and Somali refugee) camps right Many Christians which Saul disregards language) is the latest film outside the targeted house wouldn’t object to a TV God’s order to wipe out the to explore the moral mine- to sell bread. Las Vegas– series that, within reason, Amalekites, including their fields of drone warfare, and based drone pilot Steve depicts the sinful aspects of livestock and other posses- it’s a knuckle-biting one. Watts (Aaron Paul, master an Old Testament story. But sions, and lets his greed The “eye in the sky” is of anguished eyes) refuses evidently intrigues like a and pride prompt him to really multiple pairs of eyes to strike, and an exasper- boy hacking off a warrior’s spare King Agag and collect from four continents—all ated Powell exclaims, “Many head, a man using his choice spoils. With just a transfixed, via drone sur- children’s lives are at stake. This is just one girl!” daughter as bait for his few brief strokes, we see veillance, on a little house at a busy neighborhood in “Refer-ups” for approval enemy, or a king sleeping the key fault in Saul that Nairobi, Kenya. One pair climb the chain of command with his soldier’s wife will eventually lead to the belongs to London-based as officials each try to wash weren’t enough for ABC crumbling of his sanity and Col. Katherine Powell (Helen blood off their hands. They producers to work with. his rule. Mirren at her steely best), debate legal, political, and Instead, in an obvious Of Kings and Prophets who oversees a joint anti- propaganda consequences, attempt to ape Game of takes this dramatic event terrorism operation among all the while unable to tear Thrones, they’ve invented and superimposes a tire- Britain, the United States, their gaze away from the situations merely as an some modern motivation. and Kenyan militias. After little girl on their screen. excuse to go graphic. Here Saul is a traumatized six years, she’s finally Eye in the Sky is not so What is it about the soldier, morally conflicted tracked down a radicalized much a critique of modern psalm-composing shepherd at the wartime violence he’s Brit (Lex King) and two warfare as it is a rich, com- after God’s own heart that required to commit. Not British and American plex, panoramic discussion recruits—No. 2, No. 4, and about the price of security. gave the show’s writers the only does this version KEITH BERNSTEIN/BLEECKER STREET No. 5 on her Most Wanted Though there isn’t much idea that the best way to charge Elohim with evil, it list—together in one spot real action, the movie introduce him would be to rings both less true and with other al-Shabab terror- makes you tremble, tear show him lounging in a more formulaic. ists: Jackpot! When the hair, chuckle, and feel the brothel? Why take the fasci- Note to ABC writers: recruits begin strapping on stress in every military nating, complex character When dealing with an explosives for a suicide base, surveillance cabin, of David and reduce him to author of infinite skill, best attack, Powell asks her and conference room. Tums a clichéd, cocky rapscallion just to stick with the source superior, Lt. Gen. Frank are recommended. who, rather than crediting material. A Benson (Alan Rickman in his —by SOPHIA LEE

22 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 MOVIE 10 Cloverfield Lane For most of 10 tape. She is Goodman’s R Cloverfield Lane, one equal in dramatic power, wonders whether it is and so the film never grinds science fiction, dystopian, to a halt, even when the or merely a psychological excitement lags in the thriller. The film (rated second act. PG-13 for thematic material John Gallagher Jr. is the including frightening comic sidekick whose main sequences and brief role appears to be exposi- language) is about three tion. If his character is people stuck underground lovable and heroic, the during what may be the actor is overwhelmed by end of civilization. The the power of Goodman and MOVIE drama is human, and the Winstead. He doesn’t start acting is very good. Pick the dramatic fire but the wrong three people and doesn’t get burned by it Miracles from Heaven boredom could have either. He is solid. One look at the film’s Rogers) falls ill to a rare, resulted; instead the cast- The made-for-television R title and you could incurable intestinal disor- ing is the life of the movie. feel of the sets and special dismiss this as another one der, sending the family John Goodman is fright- effects is a letdown, and of those forgettable through a spiral of hospital ening, lovable, funny, and the score is forgettable. Christian feel-good films visits, teary conversations, brilliant all in the first 10 The plot is absurd, and if Hollywood pushes out and sleepless nights in minutes he is on screen. you think about it, at all, you every Easter. And you uneasy chairs. Then while His character is impossible might laugh. But Goodman wouldn’t be entirely wrong. playing outside, Anna falls to pin down for most of the and Winstead transcend it A thin plot and simple 30 feet headfirst through a runtime, and that makes all, and movie fun happens. characters don’t help, but hollow tree. the movie work. If your But don’t see it in IMAX. even that might not quell Anna’s fate seems all character starts by chain- Cloverfield is part of the the American appetite for too certain, but then keep ing a woman to the wall of rise of claustrophobic stories about miracles and in mind the movie title. your underground bunker, movies screened on IMAX, heaven. It’s worth noting Sadly, the faith-based an actor must work hard to giving us very big images Miracles from Heaven Miracles does a clumsy job produce sympathy; but of very small spaces. (rated PG) follows up actually explaining faith. Goodman does it. Goodman and Winstead Heaven Is for Real, a 2014 Recounting his dying Mary Elizabeth are in a stage play, but the sleeper hit that earned $101 daughter’s final weeks, one Winstead is MacGyver-like movie is blown up to a million at the box office, character says, “She felt in her ability to solve prob- spectacle. based on a book that sold safe. She felt loved, she lems with brains and duct —by JOHN MARK REYNOLDS 10 million copies. Both were felt God. She felt that way produced by megachurch because Anna gave her preachers T.D. Jakes and faith.” DeVon Franklin, Christians Another offers a greet- with genuine intentions and ing card nugget: “At the a track record for attracting lowest times in my life, I’ve evangelicals to the theater. tried it both ways—doing So this feel-good film everything I can to connect may not be good, but it will to God, or walking away. feel good, and there’s One way feels a whole lot apparently enough interest better than the other.” that it won’t be forgotten. Who knows, such com- The plot is based on a forting words may encour- true story: Christy age biblical belief. But if a (Jennifer Garner) and Kevin Christian feel-good movie Beam (Martin Henderson) implies faith is only about are Christians enjoying life feelings, maybe it’s not so Winstead in suburban Texas when comforting after all. and Goodman

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do is based in a faith of some kind, whether religious or secular. It also Faith, charity, covers over huge divides between, say, Christianity and Islam. We should be more specific: Bible-based and Quran- and freedom based would be better. PROTECTING AMERICA’S BIBLE-BASED Free to Serve successfully undermines ORGANIZATIONS by Marvin Olasky some underlying assumptions of Obama administration action: the belief that a religious organization’s acceptance of Free to Serve: Protecting the organizations. The most important one, I government funds places it under gov- R Religious Freedom of Faith-Based believe, is “Be Explicit in Your Religious ernmental control and the belief that Organizations, by Stephen V. Monsma Commitments.” Trying to fly under the Christianity still has a dominant, favored and Stanley W. Carlson-Thies (Brazos, radar to avoid possible lawsuits and hold position in American society. The most 2015), gives background and good onto benefits that secular groups receive crucial battle concerns the Obama advice regarding the new drive to “is the exact wrong approach,” because administration’s limiting of religious straightjacket Christian social service organizations can have some constitu- freedom to “freedom to worship,” as if tional protection only if they show their God wants us to render unto Him one beliefs and practices “are clearly and hour per week and give the other 167 to genuinely embedded in their organiza- Caesar. tion’s religious nature.” Some of the book’s advice needs That means mission statements, further discussion. “Avoid Even the orientation materials for new Appearance of Coercing Others to employees, words and images on Follow One’s Religiously Based websites, and much besides should be Practices” sounds fine, but why isn’t it honest. A group dedicated to advancing proper for Christian homeless shelters Christian understanding should not fall to require residents to attend a church into the use of new, bland clichés such service—not to deliver a maybe-false as, “We’re committed to human prayer or profession of faith, but to sit flourishing.” But Monsma and Carlson- and listen? Nothing wrong with some Thies use the euphemism that became required classes, either: A societal belief fashionable 15 years ago: “faith-based.” in personal autonomy has allowed That expression covers too much of the millions to drink and drug themselves waterfront, since just about anything we to slow deaths.

SHORT STOPS Greg Linville’s Christmanship: A Theology of Competition and Harold Holzer’s Lincoln and the Power of the Press (Simon & Sport (Oliver House, 2014) thoughtfully approaches key issues Schuster, 2014) gives scholarly detail on Honest Abe’s ways of deal- and would start many good conversations in college or adult ing with some fundamentally dishonest editors. Irwin F. Gellman’s Sunday school classes: What’s the value of athletic events? The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 Should boxing be legal? What about Sunday games? Since (Yale, 2015) is a thorough history (warning: 790 pages) without the Linville’s book would be a great textbook for sports-related political correctness that led some historians to depict Dwight courses at Christian colleges, I wrote to him and asked if any Eisenhower as an amiable dunce and Richard Nixon as always a liar. were using it, and he named half a dozen: More should. Rachel Sussman’s The Oldest Living Things in the World The subtitle of Winter Is Coming (PublicAffairs, 2015) yells its (University of Chicago, 2014) is a coffee table book with a great true message: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free concept: She photographed World Must Be Stopped. Author and former world chess champion sequoia, yucca, lichen, Garry Kasparov had been a leader in democratic opposition to coral, baobab, moss, and Russia’s new czar. The subtitle of The Confucian Cycle (First other organisms thou- Edition Design, 2015) displays the clever old-new twist it gives to sands of years old. The conservative concerns: China’s Sage & America’s Decline. Authors problem: Age comes KRIEG BARRIE William and Ken Taylor examine Washington bureaucracy through before beauty, and many the lens of ancient wisdom and suggest we’ve lost “the mandate of her finds have long shed of heaven.” their good looks. —M.O.

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Children’s books SPOTLIGHT FOUR BIBLE-RELATED BOOKS reviewed by Emily Whitten While traditional Easter lilies quickly fade, picture book Lily: THE OLOGY: ANCIENT TRUTHS, EVER NEW The Girl Who Could See (Oxvision, Marty Machowski 2015) is a lasting gift option for Machowski’s 224-page picture book is a kid-friendly Christian families. Its subject, introduction to the study of God. Machowski includes Lilias Trotter, familiar stories (such as Christ’s death and resurrection), studied art but his presentation of God’s character through clever, under the humorous essays—with titles like “The Ology of famous critic Creation”—sets this book apart. Andy McGuire’s John Ruskin illustrations complement the classic-with-a-twist text: during the For instance, an ice cream cone with worms sticking out Victorian Age. memorably depicts the sinfulness of man. Reformed in its perspective, The Ology will Yet Trotter’s appeal to Christian families of many stripes. love for Christ and passion for THE GARDEN, THE CURTAIN, AND THE CROSS the poor led her to choose Carl Laferton mission work in Algeria over From the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem, this bold and artistic fame. brightly illustrated picture book uses just 32 pages to walk Although author Sally Oxley kids through the entire biblical story. Catalina Echeverri’s chose not to use Trotter’s own vibrant illustrations, which include some images of Christ, artwork and words, the story and complement Laferton’s playful text. She uses an image of illustrations work well. Christian angels blocking Eden’s entrance—described in the text as a readers will appreciate Trotter’s “Do Not Enter” sign—and repeats it elsewhere in the book. example of humility, and they will This visual repetition along with simple, relatable storytelling be encouraged that in her life (as make the book a powerful introduction to biblical typology and Christ’s restoration of in their own) gifts sacrificed to fellowship between God and man. God are never wasted. Families with older kids may GOD’S GOOD NEWS BIBLE STORYBOOK Billy Graham want to check out the March DVD Beautiful acrylic art. Bible stories told using the actual release of a documentary on words of Scripture. Simple notes from Billy Graham Trotter’s life, Many Beautiful expounding the text. These three pieces fit together to Things. —Megan Saben make this story Bible especially respectful toward God’s Word and suitable for readers of all ages. Editors who selected Graham’s writings balance themes and topics, including the number of male and female characters. Like Graham himself, the book focuses on the “good news” of the gospel—inviting readers to repent, trust Christ, and grow more like Him. Scott Wakefield’s illustrations, which include images of Jesus, are warm and colorful, occasionally depicting familiar Bible stories in fresh ways.

7 DAYS OF AWESOME: A CREATION TALE Shawn Byous This picture book wasn’t written by Dr. Seuss but certainly feels inspired by him. Rhyming text and silly phrasing set a boisterous tone (“And LOOK! What a hoot! Today, God made fruit!”), while a madcap professor (we’re never told his name) leads us through the seven days of Creation. This isn’t detailed science, and the approach is certainly derivative: Even the helicopter seems similar to the Cat in the Hat’s helicopter. Still, the book has just enough fun and originality to capture kids’ imagination—and to HANDOUT keep parents smiling when they’re asked to read it again.

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ISMAEL HERNANDEZ Surprised by freedom A PUERTO RICAN, A SCHOLARSHIP, AND A JOURNEY FROM COMMUNISM TO CHRIST by Marvin Olasky photo by Corey Perrine/Genesis

Ismael Hernandez is founder and executive R director of the Fort Myers–based Freedom & Virtue Institute, which promotes poverty-fighting through effective compassion and individual change. Here are edited excerpts of our interview before Patrick Henry College students. You grew up in Puerto Rico under your father’s indoctrination. He was a founding member of the Puerto Rico Communist Party. He consistently talked about revolution and made us listen to Fidel Castro’s never-ending speeches—seven hours talking. You had to listen to all seven hours? Yes, required listening. I grew up hating the United States, hating capitalism, and blaming capitalism and America for the poverty we saw around us. And I hated America for the bad marriage that my mom and my dad had, because my father was only interested in revolution. But you admired him and wanted to be like him. I would go with him to Communist cell meetings. Our lives were all around socialism and how to defeat the United States. When my mother cried because my seven Jesuits were murdered there, they decided not father told her he would give the lives of the four chil- to send me. I was frustrated and quit seminary. I dren we had at home for revolution, I consoled her decided to come to America, to the guts of “the mon- but in the back of my mind agreed with my father. I ster,” as we called the United States. I had a friend who wanted that kind of steel, that kind of commitment for had gone to the University of Southern Mississippi. He a cause, and I eventually joined the party with him. told me it was very inexpensive, so I said, why not? Sometimes you went to church with your mother? What happened there? Hating America, still as a She would sneak us to go to Mass with friends with- Communist, in the South, as a black Puerto Rican, you out my father knowing about it. I began to have a can imagine what kind of a shock it was. But because double-consciousness: On one side, revolution and I had good grades in the first semester, they called me socialism. On the other side, this idea about God. one day to the dean’s office and offered me full assis- “Liberation theology” was popular at that time tance to pay for all my studies. I hated their guts and throughout Latin America, so becoming a Jesuit priest they were rewarding me. This was not supposed to would allow you to satisfy both sides. Exactly. The happen. For me, America was hell for the workers, but Jesuits were Marxists. I looked forward to studying I started to question my assumptions. liberation theology with them at a university on the They did not demand that you stick to a particular border between Nicaragua and El Salvador; but when political line and do propaganda. You were free to

28 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 explore, to read, to College students here, also helped? It explained so think? Absolutely. I had well what is behind our assumptions about life. And good grades, and they also, as an African-American himself, he questioned rewarded that. I began my assumptions about race. Before I read Sowell, I to understand that would say, “Our problems as black people—you white America was more people are our problem! You fix yourselves and we about the individual will be whole.” I assumed that for us to advance, person, and that accom- whites had to change, but Sowell helped me realize plishment brought that if my life and my success depend on you and not reward. You also met your wife-to-be. She was starting a major in fam- ‘When I came to America, my ily therapy. At the beginning she thought I was a lungs filled with the breath of spy, but we bonded and freedom. I didn’t know it was became husband and wife. As a socialist I happening, but it was.’ believed my only value was to be a faithful soldier of revolution, a on myself, I am still a slave. If I choose not to change, drop in the water. If I do I have two alternatives—whine and feel sorry for my duty, my life has myself, or put my fist in your face. But that’s not a way value. If I don’t, my life to live! There is a third alternative. doesn’t matter. What With a wife, a changed worldview, and a master’s matters is the collective, degree in political science you move to Florida and the group; but America work at a poverty-fighting organization. I was giving tells me no, you have people stuff and more stuff, and paying their bills. value as a person. That Over 10 years I made many changes, but I was begin- was a discovery, and I ning to see coming for food the children of those to also discovered that whom I had been giving food for a long time. That was what Americans call a sign of defeat. I was part of the cycle of dependency, poverty is a joke com- so one day I quit: Did not have a dime, did not have a pared to what we call job, but I had the idea that we needed an organization poverty in any other that teaches principles. context in the world. You started the Freedom & Virtue Institute. The next That was another prob- great phase of the civil rights movement is an uncom- lem for me, because this promising individual responsibility movement. W.E.B. was not the America that socialism told me existed. Du Bois said the problem was racism. Booker T. Sometimes students born in the 50 United States Washington said, “I agree, the problem is racism, but grit their teeth and make their way through core also black underdevelopment.” We need to fight documents such as The Federalist Papers, but you found oppression, but we need to develop ourselves. We them exciting. They were ideas I had never explored meet with people in churches and have training in that contradicted my safe assumptions and what I effective compassion. knew as a socialist—and at the same time they aligned Instead of diversity training you do “commonality with the experience I was having. That is radically training” that respects individuality? We do not appre- important to me—before it became an intellectual ciate people by learning how many things make my quest, it became an experience. When I came to group different from other groups. The universal America, my lungs filled with the breath of freedom. commonality of human dignity motivates us to learn WATCH A VIDEO I didn’t know it was happening, but it was. At the same OF THIS more about each other. If I appreciate you as a human time I was losing my father because he could not INTERVIEW being and as a friend, then I want to know what reconcile the most radical of his sons now becoming IN ITS ENTIRETY makes you unique. America has taught me that I am AT WNG.ORG part of the enemy. AND IN THE an individual person made in the image and likeness Thomas Sowell’s great book The Vision of the IPAD EDITION OF of God. I have rationality and will. I am my own man. Anointed, which I recommend to all the Patrick Henry THIS ISSUE We should put race aside and look at the person. A

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Livin’ and singin’ VETERAN FEMALE ARTISTS EXPLORE GOSPEL VEINS, LEFTIST PLATITUDES, AND THE ARCS OF THEIR LIVES by Arsenio Orteza

Even if Hillary Clinton doesn’t R become president, the new albums from Bonnie Raitt, Mavis Staples, Loretta Lynn, and Lucinda Williams could justify calling 2016 the Year of the Woman. Absorbed discretely, they capture veteran pros in full command of their skills. Absorbed as parts of a four-way conversation, they tackle and deepen pretty much every female-identified perspective that matters. Bonnie Raitt’s album, Dig In Deep (Redwing), lives up to its title both aurally LYNN: OWEN SWEENEY/INVISION/AP IMAGES FOR • MUSIC AMERICANA STAPLES: ROB GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA • GRABOWSKI/INVISION/AP WILLIAMS: and verbally. Raitt and her band are so Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, locked in on the up-tempo numbers that Lucinda Williams, and Bonnie it’s hard to tell where the rock ’n’ roll Raitt (clockwise from top) ends and the R&B begins. Primary credit goes to her drummer (Ricky Fataar) and salvation to the world He her organist (Mike Finnigan), both of wrought, / If I can spread the whom—most notably on INXS’ “Need message as the Master taught, You Tonight” and Los Lobos’ “Shakin’ / Then my living will not be in Shakin’ Shakes”—refurbish old stylistic vain.” tropes with subtly inventive touches. Like Livin’ on a High Note’s 11 other and new highlights in between, Lynn The lyrics matter most on the sparse, selections, “MLK Song” was composed traces, with the assistance of producer quiet numbers, most of which articulate for Staples by one of her many admirers John Carter Cash (Johnny’s son), an the working out of long-term romance (M. Ward in this case), none of whom autobiographical parabolic arc. Its with fear and trembling. But the most is particularly noted for his or her gospel luminosity is mainly due to her amazingly articulate is “The Ones We Couldn’t Be,” inclinations. That each of them has undiminished voice. Raitt’s poignant response to the deaths tapped into the optimistic, gospel- “Undiminished” isn’t an adjective of her mother (in 2004), her father protest vein Staples has mined for half a most people would use to describe (2005), and her brother (2009). century—and that her producer, Wilco’s Lucinda Williams’ voice. “Weathered” Least articulate is “The Comin’ Round Jeff Tweedy, has shaped the parts into a and “aching” are more like it. And on The Is Going Through,” a platitudinous soulful, rootsy whole—is a testament of Ghosts of Highway 20 (Thirty Tigers), her expression of Occupy Wall Street–style the degree to which her living has not double-disc follow-up to 2014’s double- Marxism that, notwithstanding its Joan been in vain. disc Down Where the Spirit Meets the Jett–worthy energy, misses the Big Providing a Republican counterpart Bone, her musical settings follow suit. Picture. to Raitt’s and Staples’ Democratic Thematically, Williams sees and

Not that leftism is inherently oblivi- leanings is the Donald Trump–supporting raises Raitt, Staples, and Lynn at their RAITT: CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP ous. “MLK Song,” the most political song Loretta Lynn, whose Full Circle (Legacy) most insightful. Religionwise, she out- on Mavis Staples’ Livin’ on a High Note does her estimable country music legacy does all three. (ANTI/Epitaph), is a reminder that proud. “I know He’s gonna hear me knock, / Martin Luther King Jr.’s Baptist gravity Beginning with a new recording of the And I know I’m gonna stand right / still occasionally tethers progressivism’s first song she ever wrote (“Whispering ‘Cause I’m standing on the rock,” she flightier fancies to reality. Sea”), concluding with a death-accepting sings in “Faith and Grace.” Staples sings: “If I can do my duty as a Willie Nelson duet (Mark Marchetti’s Williams’ voice makes such senti-

Christian ought, / If I should sing “Lay Me Down”), and touching on old ments ring true. A

30 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016  [email protected]  @ArsenioOrteza Notable CDs SPOTLIGHT NEW OR RECENT COUNTRY ALBUMS reviewed by Arsenio Orteza Donald Trump is the Republican front-runner, and if any current album taps into the energy HYMNS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO US driving his popularity, it’s Hank Williams Jr.’s It’s About Time Joey+Rory (Nash Icon). “They put an edge on Joey and Rory Feek knew that, due to Joey’s inopera- that one,” says Williams of his ble cancer, this album might be their last. And sadly— band at the conclusion of “God Joey died in early March—they were right. As a rule, Fearin’ Man,” adding that the performances recorded in the valley of the shadow band played as if it was angry. of death take on heightened significance, and these Trump’s many supporters are fre- are no exception. But they also stand on their own. quently accused of being angry The gentle country-bluegrass settings and Joey’s as well. delicately quavering voice are ideal for freshening the Anger, however, isn’t the only, songs, which are familiar enough to need freshening or even the predominant, emo- and rich enough to deserve it. tion wagging Williams. There’s CAYAMO SESSIONS AT SEA also nostalgia for David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, and George Buddy Miller & Friends Jones (“Those Days Are Gone”), This project grew out of Buddy Miller’s annual proud bitter clinging (“God and Caribbean cruises and could be called a labor of love Guns”), and rugged individualism except that it doesn’t seem to have required much (“Just Call Me Hank” and “Dress labor. Miller and his special guests ease so comfortably Like an Icon”—two of the five into the material—mostly country, country-rock, and cuts that Williams either wrote folk-rock classics initially recorded between 1949 and or co-wrote). There’s even out- 1972—that it might as well be denim. The chronological right gospel. “We just nailed exception is Doug Seegers’ “Take the Hand of Jesus,” that,” Williams says at the con- which makes its debut and, its contemporaneity clusion of the Reverend Charlie notwithstanding, somehow sounds older, and more eternal, than the rest. Jackson’s “Wrapped Up, Tangled Up in Jesus (God’s Got It).” And THE ESSENTIAL BILLY JOE SHAVER he’s right. —A.O. Billy Joe Shaver Like many of Sony’s “Essential” compilations, this one falls short of capturing its subject’s essence. But it doesn’t fall so far short that newbies won’t find it whetting their appetites for more of one of the most ornery Christians ever to raise his honky-tonk voice in song or to use it in spiritual warfare. “The Devil Made Me Do It the First Time” highlights a big part of Shaver’s story. “Jesus Christ, What a Man” and the Johnny Cash duet “You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ” highlight another.

WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Wynonna & The Big Noise The country-rock “noise” made by Wynonna Judd’s band isn’t that big, but it’s big enough to allow Judd to lay claim to the ground her eclectic cast of composers have in common. Among the motifs is the gospel. A heartbroken widower gets by with a lot of help from Jesus and a jukebox. Judd herself declares God isn’t finished with her yet, but she promises to lean on His grace and Psalm 23 until He is. Maybe she should’ve

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34 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 Just as I amDonald Trump is gaining traction among many self-proclaimed evangelical voters, but some stretch the label ‘evangelical’ to the breaking point BY JAMIE DEAN in Kannapolis, N.C.

PHOTO BY ANDREW HARNIK/AP ack Parker wears his faith Indeed, as a slew of exit polls reported Trump had won the sup- on his hat. port of at least one-third of evan- On a recent Tuesday gelicals or born-again Christians across a dozen states by early evening in Kannapolis, March, many marveled to see a thrice-married casino owner who N.C., the retired truck uses vulgar language and brags driver leaned against the about adultery capturing the support of evangelical Christians. back wall of Central But a critical question arose: Baptist Church with a What’s an evangelical? For pollsters, the answer seems Bible in his hand and a hat simple: An evangelical is a person on his head embroidered who claims to be an evangelical. Most exit polls apparently allowed with the message “John voters to self-identify as evangeli- 3:16.” cal or born-again, without any follow-up questions about beliefs For half an hour, Sen. Ted or practice. Cruz, R-Texas, paced in front For Bible-believing Christians, the answer is much richer: of a choir loft at the packed Evangelical comes from the Greek church, urging supporters to word for “good news” and conveys one of the core teachings of back him in a GOP primary Scripture: Christ saves sinners. A battle against business mogul crucial outflow: The life of the saved sinner shows it. Donald Trump. For centuries, church councils When Cruz promised to shutter the IRS, and biblical scholars have taught Parker yelled, “Amen.” When he pledged to sup- and summarized these gospel port Israel, Parker shouted, “Preach it, brother.” doctrines in majestic statements After the campaign rally ended, Parker talked like the Apostles’ Creed and the about his own nearby church and said he attends Nicene Creed. regularly. When it comes to Cruz, he said, “I think In an op-ed for The Washington he loves the Lord, and I think this guy’s got the Post, Russell Moore of the Ethics answers.” and Religious Liberty Commission Larry McDonald wears his faith on his hat too. of the Southern Baptist A day before the Cruz rally, McDonald walked Convention offered a working definition for through the parking lot of the Cabarrus Arena pundits scratching their heads over the word’s and Events Center in nearby Concord, N.C., with meaning in 2016. two identical red caps stacked on his head. They It’s not a political word, says Moore: both declared, “Make America Great Again.” “Evangelical means a commitment to the truth of The retired factory worker had come to hear God’s revelation in the Bible and a conviction that Trump speak to a rowdy crowd of 3,000 support- the blood of Christ is offered to any repentant, ers on a Monday afternoon. After the rally, believing sinner as a full atonement for sin.” McDonald said he believes Trump will bring jobs Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public back to the country. He’s seen blue-collar workers Policy Center added another layer from biblical suffer as companies move jobs overseas. teaching: “My definition of evangelical includes As we talked about the campaign, McDonald someone who takes church seriously.” said he does wish Trump would ease off insulting The distinctions are crucial, particularly since other candidates. I asked McDonald if he is a Trump claims to be “a strong Christian” (and even Christian. He replied, “Yes, me and my wife both an evangelical) while also saying he’s never asked are.” Do you go to a church here in town? “No,” he God for forgiveness. It’s also crucial for under- said. “We haven’t gone to church since we moved standing another sad reality: A significant portion here, but sometimes we watch a minister on TV.” of voters self-identifying as evangelical might not How long ago did you move here? His reply: be evangelical at all. “Sixteen-and-a-half years.” As Moore noted in the Post: “Many of those Call it the evangelical divide of 2016. who tell pollsters they are ‘evangelical’ may well

36 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 be drunk right now, and haven’t been into a ot flawlessly. Evangelicals aren’t mono- Cruz speaks during church since someone invited them to Vacation lithic voters and—as in past elections— a March 8 campaign rally at Central Bible School sometime back when was in they’ve seemed to divide their votes again Seinfeld N Baptist Church in first-run episodes.” among several contenders, including Cruz, Kannapolis, N.C. In a 2007 study, the Barna Group asked Trump, and Sen. Marco Rubio (prior to Rubio’s participants a series of nine questions about March 15 exit from the race). Christian beliefs, including whether Jesus lived a Perhaps the most helpful gauge for considering sinless life, and if salvation is through grace, not evangelical voters is church attendance. While as works. Based on the results, the study found as many as 70 percent of Americans self-identify as few as 8 percent of Americans may be truly Christian, only 37 percent report attending evangelical. church weekly, according to a 2013 Pew Research That’s far fewer than estimates from other study. national groups with less stringent measures, and When it comes to voting in the GOP primary, it’s also fewer than what some politicians proclaim. church attendance apparently matters: Recent Cruz has told supporters that some 54 million polls from the Public Religion Research Institute evangelical Christians didn’t vote during the last and the Barna Group showed voters who attend election. Out of 129 million voters, that number religious services regularly were less likely to seems glaringly high. support Trump. Given the problems with how some pollsters In South Carolina, Trump easily won the state define “evangelical,” is it possible to gauge with a heavy evangelical population, but his

GERRY BROOME/AP GERRY evangelical support in the presidential contests? margins of victory sometimes were largest in

APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 37 A Trump supporter counties where church attendance was lower, high tariffs on imported goods would raise prices at a Feb. 27 rally in according to data from the Association of on affordable goods for middle- and lower-class Bentonville, Ark. Religious Data Archives. workers. While it’s important to note that church atten- Voters in this southern strip have cited concerns dance alone doesn’t guarantee evangelical faith in over the economy and immigration among their a churchgoer, it does offer a helpful indicator: top issues in the election, and many embrace Those more committed to regular religious Trump as the solution. At least a few evangelical observance seem less committed to Trump. leaders have agreed, and have stoked fear as a Still, Trump did win contests across the South reason to support Trump. in states with significant evangelical populations, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. including in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and offered a controversial endorsement of Trump in Kentucky. The losses were a blow to Cruz, who February. “All the social issues—traditional family had hoped to solidify evangelical support in values, abortion—are moot if ISIS blows up some Southern states early on. of our cities or if the borders aren’t fortified,” he Beyond Christian tradition, these four states told The New York Times. “Rank-and-file evangeli- had something else in common: Their workers cals are smarter than many of the leaders. They earn the lowest wages in the country. The 2008 are trying to save the country and maybe vote on economic crisis hit hard in the region, and social issues next time.” Mississippi has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 15 years. The state has the highest any evangelical leaders disagree with JOHN BAZEMORE/AP unemployment rate in the nation. Falwell’s prioritization. Pastors and Trump has made a relentless appeal to such Mleaders from Russell Moore to Max voters, promising to return jobs that went over- Lucado have criticized Trump for his years of seas, though some economists say his plan for liberal positions on a range of issues (including

38 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 being “very, very pro-choice” until recently) they’ve stayed away from questions about his and have raised significant questions about his failed marriages and boasted promiscuity. (A moral character (including his boasts over Trump spokeswoman didn’t respond to written adultery). questions for this story.) Plenty of politicians, both Republican and Do those issues matter? Decades ago, former Democrat, have had moral crashes while in President Harry Truman warned: “A man not office, but many tearfully apologized or honorable in his marital relations is not usually expressed regret. Trump boasts about greed, honorable in any other.” love of money, and promiscuity. Denny Burk of Boyce College says “vulgarity In his book Think Big and Kick Ass in matters” and character is crucial: “A guy who Business and Life, Trump used the word brags about all the women he has conquered is “screw” as a synonym for “date” when talking not something we can hold up as a model of about his past relationships with women, and character.” Cromartie of the EPCC agrees, and he bragged: “Beautiful, famous, successful, says he considers evangelical leaders endorsing married—I’ve had them all. …” Trump “a scandal.” He’s also used vulgar language on the campaign trail, as the culture surrounding some of ow do pro-Trump evangelicals respond? his events grows coarser. Before the rally in Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Concord, children walked by with their parents HChurch in Dallas, supports Trump and as a T-shirt vendor shouted a crude slogan in said he would “make a great president of the the parking lot. Another child held a poster United States.” board full of buttons for sale with profanity- Jeffress is well-known in Dallas for pastoring laden phrases. the historic Southern Baptist church he recently Supporters anticipate Trump’s showdowns led through a $135 million renovation. He’s also with protesters, often jeering, booing, and well-known on the Fox News circuit, and his shouting as Trump taunts and police descend church bio page notes he’s made more than 2,000 on the demonstrators. At a rally in Fayetteville, radio and television appearances. N.C., a Trump supporter punched a protester In recent months, he’s appeared at a handful of in the face as he left the arena. (Trump had said Trump rallies, and the pastor told a crowd in Fort he would pay the legal fees of anyone who Worth that evangelicals would have a friend in the punched a protester.) White House if Trump were elected. In recent years, many voters have grown less bothered by moral failings. Former President Bill Clinton faced shame after admit- ‘They’re not oblivious to ting to adultery in the Oval Office; but his popularity later soared, and he remains popular what [Trump] says and how today. So does his wife. As the Democratic primaries vulgar and vain and vicious unfold, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains her party’s front-runner, despite facing he can be. But it’s almost possible indictment for using a personal email like, yeah, we know all that. … server to conduct highly sensitive State Department business and possibly compromising But at least you know where national security. (She also promises to be one of the most pro-abortion presidents in history.) he’s coming from.’ This summer, Trump faces a civil lawsuit from a group of plaintiffs claiming he cheated them out —Mike Huckabee of large sums of money through his now-defunct Trump University. Trump denies the claims. In a phone interview, I asked Jeffress about Still, Trump doesn’t shy away from criticizing concerns over Trump’s character. The pastor the character of others. He’s dubbed Cruz “lying noted other Republican politicians have commit- Ted,” and he’s pinged Bill Clinton for committing ted adultery. adultery. When reporters asked if Trump’s When I pointed out Trump has boasted about personal life was “fair game,” he said yes. The his sins and doesn’t express regret, Jeffress said: journalists didn’t follow up. “I’m not sure we ought to be in the business of Neither have other candidates. Through a grading sin. I think sin is sin in God’s eyes.” He relentless series of debates, Cruz, Rubio, and others added: “We’re not electing our children’s Sunday have pointed out Trump’s inconsistent positions school teacher. We’re electing the leader of the and legal troubles over Trump University, but free world.”

APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 39 It’s an interesting dynamic for a pastor who forgive anyone who asks for it. But you have to ask urged evangelicals not to vote for Mitt Romney in for it.” Jeffress said he considers Trump a friend the 2012 GOP primary because Romney is a and would prefer to speak with him personally Mormon. At the time, Jeffress said we ought to about any concerns he might have about his have “a born-again follower of Christ in the Oval relationship with God. Office if we have a choice.” Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is less hesitant: “I What about professing Christian candidates find it utterly astonishing that a person [claiming like Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who were to be a Christian] could say they’ve never asked still in the GOP primary race? God for forgiveness. That’s why I don’t have any Jeffress said he admires Cruz but thinks Trump reasonable thought that [Trump] is a Christian is the most electable candidate in the general candidate.” election. (The most recent national polls show Still, Huckabee has defended Trump’s candi- Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage dacy in recent weeks, though he says he’s “not points. Cruz leads Clinton by 1 point.) defending anything Donald Trump has done in his The pastor also said he believes Trump will be personal life that is so very in opposition to a pro-life, pro-religious-liberty candidate. biblical principles and standards.” When I asked about Trump saying abortion Huckabee says he knows evangelicals in his giant Planned Parenthood does “wonderful own church who are supporting Trump because things” for women apart from its abortion prac- they feel like Republican politicians haven’t kept tices, Jeffress said: “He’s right. There are some their promises. positive things Planned Parenthood does for When it comes to Trump’s character, Huckabee women. But he’s been very clear as long as they says: “They’re not oblivious to what he says and Pastor Joshua Nink continue to do abortions he would defund them.” how vulgar and vain and vicious he can be. But it’s prays for Trump after a Jan. 31 service at First On the question of Trump’s claims that he’s a almost like, yeah, we know all that. … But at least Christian Church in Christian who’s never asked God for forgiveness, you know where he’s coming from.” Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jeffress said the Bible is clear: “God is willing to Not everyone is so sure. When former neu- rosurgeon Ben Carson endorsed Trump, he offered an unusual commendation: He told reporters “there are two Donald Trumps”— the public image and the one who “considers things carefully.” Carson’s endorsement surprised at least some of the evangelicals who supported his surging primary bid against Trump last fall. The two men offered a stark contrast: Trump declaring his greatness; Carson promoting humility. Whatever changed in Carson’s assessment of Trump, at least one thing hasn’t changed: The truth from the book of Proverbs that Carson often quoted on the winding campaign trail: “By humility and JAE C. HONG/AP fear of the LORD are riches and honor and life.” A

40 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016  [email protected]  @deanworldmag advance rights for gays and lesbians, and in yet another that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis should have issued gay marriage licenses over her conscience objections. Trump has also said he would have the government register all Muslims in a national database. The other leading GOP contender, Sen. Ted Cruz, has expressed support for the First Amendment Defense Act, and he discusses both domestic and international religious liberty as a priority. He recently set up a religious liberty advisory committee. Many on Cruz’s religious liberty committee are pastors and professors from Christian colleges; few WHERE THEY STAND have government experience, and his committee lacks top legal experts on The presidential election could have a big impact religious liberty. But it includes notables on religious liberty / BY EMILY BELZ like the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, and Oklahoma Wesleyan ost evangelicals know this a same-sex-inclusive definition that, University President Everett Piper. year’s presidential election practically speaking, is unlikely to Neither former Secretary of State Mcould be a turning point for change even if a Republican wins the Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Bernie Sanders religious liberty. In a Barna Group survey White House. Other questions: Will faith- has a religious liberty advisory team. last year, 67 percent of American evan- based organizations have access to the Clinton and Sanders both have called gelicals said the issue would have “a lot” same government benefits as other state-level versions of the Religious of influence on their pick for president, groups? How will any plans to change or Freedom Restoration Act (the current and in WORLD’s most recent unscientific replace Obamacare respect conscience? legal standard for religious liberty survey about the 2016 campaign, evan- Will the next president continue the disputes) discriminatory to gay people. gelical leaders named domestic religious government’s current contraceptive and Internationally, however, Clinton has freedom as the most important issue, abortifacient mandate, which many broken with the Obama State above Supreme Court nominations and religious organizations object to on Department, calling for the government abortion. (International religious freedom, conscience grounds? Also, some of the to apply the “genocide” label to the on the other hand, was near the bottom biggest decisions affecting domestic Islamic State’s extermination of of the leaders’ list.) religious liberty in the past decade have Christians in the Middle East. Yet, to voters more broadly, religious come from the courts: The next presi- The lack of discussion of specific freedom hasn’t been a priority. The dent will appoint federal judges and religious liberty issues in the campaign Barna poll found that just 28 percent of quite likely at least one Supreme Court is “disappointing,” said Stanley Carlson- all adults considered the issue important, justice. Thies, the head of the Institutional and religious liberty hasn’t appeared in Internationally, the new administra- Religious Freedom Alliance. Carlson- other polls from Pew or Gallup. tion will determine the government’s Thies worked to establish George W. Candidates haven’t discussed it much, priority for defending persecuted Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and either. religious minorities around the world, Community Initiatives when he first “I think that says more about the including Yazidis in Iraq and Christians became president, and later was an voting public than anything,” said Faith in Iran and elsewhere. President adviser to the office under Obama. McDonnell, the director of religious Obama’s State Department has empha- Republicans are struggling with how liberty programs at the Institute on sized LGBT rights abroad more than to address religious freedom when it is Religion & Democracy. “This is not an religious rights. “so tied up in your view of sexuality,” he issue that people are that interested in, Where do the candidates stand? said. “It’s easier to just shut up … about unfortunately.” Republican front-runner Donald Trump those topics than say something.” And Regardless of whether most voters holds contradictory positions on domes- Democrats are ignoring “people of faith care, the next president will make tic religious freedom. While in one breath who don’t express their faith in explicitly important decisions affecting domestic Trump says he would sign the First progressive categories.” The bottom line, and international religious freedom. The Amendment Defense Act—to prohibit according to Carlson-Thies: For the government is still working out how to discrimination against individuals over American public, religious freedom has treat those who conscientiously object to their belief in heterosexual marriage—in “gotten caught up in the same polarized

AP PHOTOS AP the new federal definition of marriage— another breath he says he would thinking as everything else.” A

41  [email protected]  @emlybelz APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD Conservatives vs. Trump

n a presidential election year, a leading GOP candidate can expect to see his most ardent backers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual gathering that draws the biggest names in Republican politics. But when CPAC 2016 commenced in National Harbor, Md., in early March, only a smattering of Donald Trump supporters showed up—and their candidate was nowhere to be seen. “I think somebody told him [Fox News anchor] Megyn Kelly was going to be here—or even worse, he was told that conservatives were going to be here,” said U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who spoke shortly after organizers learned Trump was backing out of his scheduled appearance. The standing- room-only crowd greeted Cruz with raucous chants: “Ted! Ted! Ted!” Trump likely made the right decision. Although he held a large delegate lead when CPAC got underway, the event offered signs more indicative of stubborn defiance than of a party ready to coalesce around him. Some attendees were planning to stage a walkout when Trump took the stage. In the CPAC straw poll, 70 percent chose Cruz or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as their first choice for president, compared with Trump’s 15 percent. The mainstream media have portrayed the Republican establishment as Trump’s arch- nemesis, but CPAC illustrated a little-recognized truth: Non-establishment conservatives are providing the most vocal resistance to the bombastic businessman. Despite rhetoric distancing themselves from Trump’s outlandish remarks, party elites are showing an

42 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 Conservatives vs. Trump Many voters see Donald Trump’s candidacy as a challenge to the GOP establishment, but it is conservative activists—and largely not establishment Republicans in Washington— who are sounding alarms BY J.C. DERRICK in National Harbor, Md., and Washington, D.C. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KASTER/AP

Ted Cruz speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. ‘We have one increasing willingness to accept Trump as the reelection in the fall, others fear denouncing him GOP standard-bearer—largely because many are may only inflame the electorate and help elect candidate not convinced he is an existential threat to the Clinton. giving a Republican Party. The story is similar in the U.S. House, where Other conservatives, however, have seen many members plan to unite behind Trump if he full-throated enough. gains the GOP nomination for president. Rep. defense of “I think if we got into a position where it was Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., chair of the House abortion him or Hillary Clinton, it’s going to be a really Select Panel on Infant Lives, said she is “abso- tough choice,” said CPAC attendee Jay Richards, a lutely” comfortable with Trump as the nominee, and another Christian author and professor who said he wants but education would be important: “I look forward giving a to see the party do more to deal with Trump. “We to having the opportunity to explain to him how have one candidate giving a full-throated defense community health centers are doing the heavy lift full-throated of abortion and another giving a full-throated when it comes to doing women’s healthcare. It’s defense of defense of bombing civilians. This is about as bad not Planned Parenthood.” (Trump has praised as it gets.” Planned Parenthood.) bombing Less than 10 miles away from where CPAC Only a handful of sitting lawmakers have come civilians. took place, a different story unfolded four days out against Trump, and few want to talk about This is about earlier on Capitol Hill. As Republican senators him. Several typically accessible members arrived for a weekly conference lunch, one mem- declined my interview requests. as bad as ber after another ducked past reporters blurting Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., did go on the record it gets.’ out questions about the presidential contest. and called Trump the “ultimate insider.” Franks, “I don’t talk about the presidential race,” said originally a Mike Huckabee supporter, has shifted —Jay Richards Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the his support to Cruz as the best hope to stop the National Republican Senatorial Committee. businessman. “Maverick” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the party’s “The true conservatives see that Donald 2008 presidential nominee, also took a pass, even Trump is anything but a conservative,” said though he’s been on the receiving end of Trump’s Franks, whose voting record ranks among the insults. most conservative in Congress. “He’s closing in “I’ve tried to be pretty consistent about not on 70 years old, and if he’s just now forming his expressing my opinion about the presidential political ideals, that should be concerning.” race,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch Primary results show a majority of McConnell, R-Ky. When pressed, McConnell Republicans do not support Trump, who attracted admitted he would support the Republican less than 35 percent of the cumulative vote nominee. Then he abruptly walked away. through the first 24 contests. But sustained Others answered likewise: “I’m going to sup- attempts by other candidates to expose the port whoever the nominee is,” Sen. Richard Burr, mogul’s record didn’t begin until late February, R-N.C., said curtly, days before his state went to and opposition remained fractured past the half- the polls. Freshman Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga., way mark of the primary calendar. and Bill Cassidy, R-La., told me the same. Behind closed doors, some Republicans sound “Someone may not agree with him, but he might Machiavellian—simply glad to see results they’ve be our nominee, and our nominee’s going to be long coveted: Donations are up, poll numbers better than their nominee—by far,” Cassidy said. look good, and Democrats are crossing over in While only one Republican senator—Alabama’s droves to vote in GOP primaries. Trump’s strong Jeff Sessions, a crusader against mass immigration— support among white, non-college-educated has formally endorsed Trump, only two Republicans voters may put in play states that have become have consistently spoken out against him: South Democratic strongholds, including Pennsylvania, Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, who briefly ran Michigan, and Wisconsin. against Trump last year, and freshman Sen. Ben Perhaps most significant to the party, the anti- Sasse of Nebraska, who released an open letter establishment furor at the presidential level has saying a hypothetical Trump/Clinton matchup shown no signs of down-ballot consequences: No would require conservatives to find a third option. incumbent member of Congress has lost a pri- There is no single reason for the silence, but mary this cycle, despite several House and Senate lawmakers’ own political realities help explain it: challenges in states Trump carried. McConnell, Wicker, Perdue, Burr, and Cassidy all Party insiders acknowledge the convergence MARK FINKENSTAEDT represent states Trump has won. No matter how of the presidential and congressional races is not conservative or new to Congress they may be, likely to happen until after the party conventions Trump followers consider them part of the in July—the point of no return. If things go wrong, establishment. Although GOP senators in blue they believe they can distance themselves from states may oppose Trump while running for Trump to limit potential damage.

44 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016  [email protected]  @jcderrick1 That’s a big risk: Senate Republicans hold an president.” Thirty-five other leading Catholics Endorsements eight-seat majority but will defend members in 24 signed on to the open letter. primary of 34 races in November. The #NeverTrump hashtag has come to Capitol Hill Republicans still retain hope that embody the opposition. Erick Erickson called for As a rule, endorse- Trump could moderate his message, start acting conservatives to pledge never to vote for Trump ments of presidential more presidential, and possibly name, for exam- and said he gets daily feedback from people who candidates by sitting lawmakers serve as an ple, a respected senator as his are making that pledge. indicator of who will running mate. But a wide range “Asking any Christian to win a party’s nomina- of conservative leaders and activ- support a liberal who supports tion. This year’s GOP ists aren’t interested in finding Planned Parenthood and social- race has, so far, been out. Many have vowed not to vote ist healthcare or Hillary Clinton an exception to the for Trump in the general election, is a bridge too far for me,” rule. Sen. Marco Rubio ranging from radio hosts Glenn Erickson wrote in an email. “If ran behind Donald Beck, Erick Erickson, and Steve Trump voters wish to proceed, Trump and Sen. Ted Deace to former Republican they are doing so with full Cruz and dropped out Reps. Ron Paul and J.C. Watts. knowledge that many people of the race on March 15 Russell Moore, president of will oppose him.” Many Trump but had the most the Southern Baptist Convention’s backers have labeled Erickson endorsements of any Ethics and Religious Liberty an establishment Republican GOP candidate: 14 senators, 48 congressmen, Commission, has led the evan- and viciously attacked him on and five governors. A gelical voices against Trump, and social media. huge number of law- in late February pastor and best- “Right now we’re in an envi- Lucado makers have remained selling author Max Lucado joined ronment where logic, reason, on the sidelines: Since him. Lucado, who is usually polit- and clear thinking are being 1980, Ronald Reagan is ically silent, embarked on a media tour against labeled as establishment and rejected,” Rep. the only Republican Trump, saying he failed the “decency test.” Trent Franks told me. “I certainly hope that this nominee who had Robert P. George and George Weigel, two lead- party wakes up while there is time. … If we forsake fewer endorsements at ing Catholic thinkers, issued a March plea to all the principles that caused us to be born, we will this stage than Rubio— Catholics, declaring Trump “manifestly unfit to be go the way of the Whigs.” A and none has secured the nomination with as few endorsements as Trump or Cruz. —J.C.D. ‘Right now we’re in an environment where logic, reason, and clear thinking are being labeled as establishment and rejected.’ —Trent Franks LUCADO: RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES • REAGAN: ZEBOSKI/AP • FRANKS: TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL/AP

APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 45 THE SON OF GOD AND THE ‘SONS OF THE LAND’ Ethnic Malays make up a largely unreached people group—in a nation with megachurches and missionaries. Some Christians are now undertaking the dangerous work of preaching the gospel to them

BY SOPHIA LEE IN MALAYSIA

EVERY MORNING, the widow wakes up at 2:30 a.m. and buses to the main market to pick up trays of kuih (traditional steamed rice cakes and pastries). She then sits before her kuih at the wet market in suburban Kuala Lumpur, watching the tide of shoppers push and bump and squeeze past her stall. She listens to loud haggles and hears the bangs against wooden boards as cleavers whack at fish heads and beef tendons. On good days, Hannah (WORLD agreed not to use her real name to protect her safety) asks God to give her courage to talk about the gospel with someone. On bad days, she worries whether the Malaysian religious police will finally arrest her, separate her from her 12-year-old adopted son Joshua, and lock them up for the crime of apostasy. Because she’s Malay, Hannah is bound by Malaysia’s federal constitution to identify as Muslim. Individuals accused of apostasy—a crime in Malaysia that carries the death penalty in at least two states—often disappear into the notorious, isolated religious rehabilitation camps, where officials force-feed apostates Islamic propaganda for up to 36 months. To Malays, rejecting Islam is equivalent to betraying the Malay race,

46 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 culture, and community. So intricate is the tie between ethnicity and religion that the term masuk melayu—“to become Malay”— describes conversion to Islam. Hannah’s late husband, an ethnic Chinese, had to convert to Islam officially to marry her. So when Hannah professed Christ in 2013, she did so by herself in the privacy of her room. To her family, neighbors, and fellow market vendors, she’s a Muslim who doesn’t wear a hijab and speaks little about her private life. But at home, she pores through her Bible for hours and absorbs every good sermon she can find online and discusses them with her son. They church- hop to deflect unwanted curiosity and prefer large churches where they can disappear into massive crowds. Hannah, aware that eyes and ears are everywhere, warns Christians who know her not to greet her in public. I met Hannah and Joshua during one of her braver moments. We lunched at a non-halal restaurant, where her cautious peering about for potential eavesdroppers soon shifted to enthusiastic testimony-telling. So eager was she to talk about what Jesus did in her life, she barely touched her rice. Hannah was 38 when her husband died suddenly, less than two years after their wedding. Then health problems and depression came. Even as a Muslim, Hannah sought after every religion out of “rock-bottom desperation,” she said. She visited Malay shamans, hung spirit-exorcising Taoist talismans around her house, offered incense at Chinese temples, and even responded to an altar call at a huge Christian event. But it wasn’t until she watched a Christian man’s testimony online that she “truly understood the gospel.” Her son noticed her changing—“she always used to worry and be angry and visit shamans,” he recalled—and he too soon professed Christ after several dreams in which Jesus hugged him and told him, “Don’t be afraid.” The boy now openly talks about the gospel with his Malay classmates, because he knows few else will. That’s why when Hannah talks about the many ways in which the Malays cannot hear the gospel, her brown eyes gleam with rage and sadness: “It’s killing us! The biggest, saddest oppression is the inability to choose eternity.”

ABOUT 50 PERCENT of Malaysians are ethnic Malays whom the government registers at birth as Muslims. Nobody knows how many closeted Malay Christians exist in Malaysia. Plenty of rumors flutter about: Some claim more than a million Malay converts live in Malaysia, but missionaries tell me Christians and Muslims are inflating these numbers. One American missionary estimates the entire country has no more than 500 true Malay believers. Three-fifths of the nation’s multiracial, multireligious population identifies with Islam, Malaysia’s official religion, and state- administered Sharia laws govern all Muslims. The government encourages non-Malay citizens to convert to Islam but allows them to practice their own religion—up to a point. For example, witnessing to Malays is illegal, so religious Malaysian officials closely watch churches, Christian Muslim men schools, and private social events. Some even pray at a mandate Islamic recitations and teachings in mosque near Kuala private Christian schools with Malay students. Lumpur. The United Malays National Organization, JOSHUA PAUL/AP the nation’s dominant political party that has

APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 47 never lost an election since Malaysian inde- pendence, promises to protect the bumiputra (“sons of the land”)—the Malay race, now interchangeable with Muslims. Malay Muslims gain special privileges over non-Malays: political voice, preferences in civil employment, public education, financial assistance in housing, and more. Non-Muslims resent that officials spend their tax money (10 percent of the 2016 federal budget) on building mosques, training and dis- patching Islamic missionaries, funding Islamic departments and schools, and maintaining “rehab centers” for apostates, some who report torture with electric shocks and skin-stripping canes. Meanwhile, Islamic groups portray Christianity as a symbol of encroaching Western imperialism that erodes Malay/ Muslim culture and values, further stoking religious and ethnic tensions. Such segregation between the Malay majority and the non-Malay minorities damp- ens many local Christians’ desire to evangelize their Malay neighbors. Grace-Melody Moo, a minister in a large Methodist church in Penang, put it this way: “A lot of Christians here look at Malays with mixed feelings. We feel pity, but we also blame them as the source of a lot of discrimination The church finally begged her not to come, saying she against us. That puts up a mind block: If they’re making life was putting the whole church in danger—and it’s true: difficult for us, how can we want to minister to them?” Churches could lose everything they own, including the Missionary Rich (who spoke on condition of anonymity ministries they already have in place. Not many churches because of his ongoing work in Malaysia) first started are willing to risk all that for the Malays. comprehending the “bleak” situation in Malaysia after he In extreme cases, church leaders punish members who asked 40 full-time pastors and missionaries whether they evangelize Malays or even report Malays who visit the had ever met a Malay Christian convert. Not a single one church to religious authorities. That happened to one had, despite the nation having many megachurches and Malay woman Rich knows: The pastor called the Islamic missionaries. Rich is now in his eighth year as a missionary police when she entered the church wanting to learn more in Malaysia. He says it’s rare to meet a Malay who’s willing about Christianity, and the police dragged her off to a to reject Islam and profess Christ, but just as rare to find a rehabilitation camp for three months. (She still became a local church willing to bear the heavy risk of welcoming, believer.) In other cases, churches will allow Malay protecting, and shepherding these converts. Christians to attend—so long as they stay in the shadows “That’s basically saying, ‘If you leave Islam, we will not and don’t ask for prosecutable things such as baptisms. stand with you. You will be alone.’ That’s what makes this Malays who profess Christ do so at great cost: They may field so bleak,” said Rich. “The devil is so confident, and lose their family, community, legal rights, employment, the churches so weak, that he’s not even afraid of having housing, marriage prospects, even their lives. So far, the massive churches next door.” responsibility of shepherding these vulnerable spiritual One young Malay woman whom Rich baptized was so babies has mostly fallen on foreign missionaries, who enthusiastic she finished reading the entire Bible in 40 historically had not done much evangelistic outreach to days. She went back to her hometown to witness to her the Malays. That’s changed, but those with the sole mission

family, but had to flee because they tried to kill her. At her of reaching the Muslims still struggle with obstacles such SAMSUL SAID/REUTERS/NEWSCOM new location, she tried to attend a local church, but they as language, timidity, fear, inability to engage the local barred her because she told them she was Malay. So she church, and the classic pressure to impress financial visited another church without mentioning her ethnicity supporters back home. and participated in every service. Later, when church lead- In some circles, bold, gospel-centered preaching has ers found out she was Malay, they sent her a text message given way to a “culturally sensitive” methodology known as warning her that the Islamic police were waiting by the the Insider Movement, which advocates “contextualization” church entrance—a lie to scare her away for good. She of Christian teaching for Muslims. IM is a wide spectrum, kept showing up anyway. but at some point in that continuum, it crosses into heresy

48 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 among Muslims whose eyes glimmer with tears when they hear what Christ did for them. One village imam flung his Quran onto the floor, crying, “For 12 years I’ve prayed to Allah, and nothing, nothing! But Jesus! He sent you guys all the way over here to share the good news? We want your Bible.” Another Islamic teacher spying on them for the government later professed Christ and even put her security on the line by defending the Strandjords when village headmen plotted to expel these relentless white missionaries. “The harvest is plentiful,” Kathy Strandjord said. “But the A woman prays inside a church near Kuala Lumpur rate of Malays giving their life to Christ is slow, (left); Kathy Strandjord prays because there isn’t enough workers who persevere.” with a Malay woman (above); That’s slowly changing. Once the Strandjords a Bible in the Malay language. started retelling these testimonies with the local churches, people were moved to weeping and repentance. Pastors confessed, “We need to get rid of our anger and bitterness.” More and and syncretism. Many missionaries in Malaysia more non-Malay Malaysian Christians from use the Quran as an evangelistic tool to talk about various churches, with their pastors’ blessing, Jesus, but some overstep boundaries by imputing started joining the Strandjords on mission new “Christianized” interpretations to Quran verses. trips to learn how to love their Malay neighbors Some missionaries encourage those who profess better. Today they form a “ministry team” that visits Christ to remain within their Muslim community, which and disciples various families of closet Malay believers—“a can lead to confusion and poor discipleship. Some mission- kind of miracle,” Strandjord said, considering how fearful aries also simply don’t evangelize enough. they were before. The Strandjords are currently back in Minnesota but THAT’S WHAT RETIRED business-owners-turned-mission- still make twice-yearly trips to Malaysia. Everybody keeps aries Mark and Kathy Strandjord discovered when they in touch daily through a group chat on WhatsApp, a free visited Kuala Lumpur in 2004. For many years, their church messaging app, to share devotions, words of encourage- had supported several missionaries to reach the Malays. ment and exhortation, and random photos. These Malays But when Mark Strandjord asked them how many Malays live with the constant awareness that they’re putting their they had helped convert, they gave the same answer: zero. comfort, safety, and lives on the line as Christians, so it’s a Strandjord was flabbergasted. He asked, “Well, how do you continuous fight for strength, peace, and faith in Jesus’ share the gospel with them?” Oh no, no, no, these mission- greater sacrifice and blessings for them. aries said, evangelism to Muslims is illegal. They said they “It’s all about Immanuel,” said Hannah, the Malay don’t bring up Jesus to Muslims until they’ve known them widow. “If not for that promise, how can I do this?” She and for three years. Strandjord was so devastated that he Joshua are part of that group chat with the Strandjords, stepped outside and wept. whom Joshua calls “Grandpa” and “Grandma.” Hannah said After several more trips, the Strandjords sold every- her theology was once “all jumbled up” until she found thing they had and moved to Malaysia to do what they felt “good shepherds” in a few local Christians and missionaries not enough are doing: preach the explicit gospel to the willing to disciple her with sound doctrine. She prays other Malays. For six years, they trekked to towns and villages all underground Malay Christians will also find a family of over the country, including conservative states like believers who constantly remind them of Immanuel. Kelantan where strict Sharia laws reign. Despite receiving At times, when she’s overwhelmed with fear, anxieties, multiple death threats, they still visit villages to preach to and exhaustion, Hannah turns to her son and sighs, “Is this strangers—and wherever they go, they say they see miracles: all worth it, Joshua?” And Joshua, always the little preacher, healings of the sick and brokenhearted, deliverance from replies, “Ma, don’t grumble. God will provide. We just trust

STRANDJORD: HANDOUT • BIBLE: BAZUKI MUHAMMAD/REUTERS/NEWSCOM BAZUKI BIBLE: • HANDOUT STRANDJORD: demon possessions, and an awe and fervor for Jesus in the Lord.” A

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hree times during its opposition to the Texas law. And on claiming the medical justification for the the March oral argu- March 2 Stephanie Toti, arguing at the Texas law was “groundless.” ments for the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Texas Couched in legal jargon, amicus Supreme Court’s big- abortion centers, cited the brief to the briefs—position statements supporting or gest abortion case in justices—twice. opposing a particular lawsuit—aren’t very a decade, lawyers “The American Medical Association exciting to most Americans. But in invoked an organization that wasn’t even and every other mainstream, leading Supreme Court arguments and decisions, a party to the lawsuit: the American medical association to consider these briefs play an important role in providing Medical Association. requirements has concluded that they justification for the majority opinion. The case, Whole Woman’s Health v. are not medically justified for a variety of When the court legalized same-sex mar- Hellerstedt, has pitted the abortion busi- reasons,” said Toti, a lawyer from the riage last year, Justice Anthony Kennedy ness (and the Obama administration) Center for Reproductive Rights. Later, cited in his decision an amicus brief that against Texas state regulators. At issue is she again mentioned the AMA brief claimed laws defining marriage as a new state law requiring abortion facili- while disparaging the Texas regulations between one man and one woman ties to meet ambulatory surgical center as “not consistent with medical harmed the children of same-sex couples. standards and to have admitting privi- standards.” The AMA has about 232,000 members leges at a local hospital. Last October the So too U.S. Solicitor General Donald and is considered the country’s pre- American Medical Association (AMA) Verrilli Jr., also arguing in defense of the eminent medical association. And in filed a so-called amicus brief expressing abortion facilities, cited the AMA brief in almost every abortion case at the

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Supreme Court or in lower federal courts, medical groups enumerated the risks of notification law needed an exception for the AMA files on the side of the abortion various abortion procedures and said the the health of a minor and that parental industry. The AMA’s organizational policy rules were “consistent with the standard involvement was unnecessary from a also supports aborted fetal tissue of care for outpatient medical practice.” medical standpoint. Ultimately, the research and public funding for abortion. Historically, the AMA has opposed Supreme Court ruled unanimously “When we’re filing briefs on abortion, regulation of all sorts, but it used to hold against Planned Parenthood, sending the almost always on the other side is the more conservative positions. It opposed case back to lower courts. AMA,” said Dr. David Stevens, the CEO of Medicare in the 1950s. Its opposition to The AMA has also filed in favor of the Christian Medical & Dental regulation of the abortion industry began buffer zone laws, which forbid protesters Associations (CMDA), a professional in the 1980s, when the AMA filed a brief or counselors from coming within a association with about 17,000 members. against state abortion regulations in the certain distance of an abortion center. It “They are on that side fighting for it 1989 Supreme Court case Webster v. filed against laws regulating the admin- every time you turn around.” Reproductive Health Services. istration of RU-486, the abortion pill The CMDA, alongside the American Since then, the group has filed briefs regimen. It filed against an admitting Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and opposing laws requiring parental notifi- privileges law in Wisconsin. Gynecologists, filed a brief in the recent cation for minors having abortions (Aid In response to my questions about its abortion case contradicting the AMA’s for Women v. Foulston and Ayotte v. Planned filings, the association said in a statement, claims that the Texas regulations are Parenthood of Northern New England, in “The AMA seeks to limit government

SUSAN WALSH/AP SUSAN medically unjustified. The two pro-life 2006). In Ayotte, the AMA argued the interference in the practice of medicine

APRIL 2, 2016 WORLD 51 and oppose[s] government regulation of medicine that is unsupported by scientific evidence.” All national professional organizations tend to oppose regulations, according to Teresa Stanton Collett, a lawyer at the University of St. Thomas School of Law: “Whether it’s good or not is a separate issue. ... A lot of this industry protection- ism is a problem.” Collett, who has testified in favor of pro-life laws, penned a brief in Whole Woman’s Health on behalf of 21 physicians working in rural areas and emergency environments. They believe the Texas regulations are justified. One exception to the AMA’s practice of siding with the abortion industry was Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 Supreme Court case challenging the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. The AMA didn’t Obama addresses the annual meeting of the “Judges should stop treating the file an amicus brief in that case—and American Medical Association in 2009. statements of scientific organizations as pro-lifers considered that a victory. None apolitical,” responded Slate columnist of the lawyers I spoke to knew why the was arguing minors should be able to Will Saletan at the time. AMA chose not to file. But back in 1997 have abortions without parental Amicus briefs from pro-life organiza- the organization received flak for notification. tions like CMDA show judges there is endorsing the proposed partial-birth “ACOG has never seen an abortion more than one viewpoint on medical abortion ban. The AMA’s report on the practice they didn’t like,” said Collett. questions around abortion, even if courts practice said there was no situation One notorious incident came to light don’t treat such groups as mainstream. where partial-birth abortion “is the only during liberal Justice Elena Kagan’s con- Medical associations can grant status to appropriate procedure” and recom- firmation process in 2010. Back in 1996 groups representing special interests mended doctors not use it. an ACOG panel drafted a statement on within their membership: The AMA, for The AMA has some good positions: It partial-birth abortion and then ran the example, recognizes the Gay and Lesbian supports the conscience rights of its draft by advisers at the Clinton White Medical Association. The CMDA members, saying no doctors or hospital House, where Kagan was a counsel at the requested its own specialty status in the 1990s, CEO Stevens recalled, but the AMA turned the group down on the grounds ‘Abortion is the most unregulated healthcare industry that it discriminated based on religion. in the country, and it’s because it’s a sacred cow.’ Stevens said many physicians in his organization left AMA over its abortion stance (AMA also endorsed gay marriage personnel should have to do anything time. ACOG’s draft said the group could in 2011). CMDA membership has grown “violative of personally held moral prin- find “no circumstances under which this 19 percent since 2008. ciples.” It has not joined the abortion procedure, as defined above, would be the In the 1950s, 75 percent of American industry’s push for states to allow nurse only option to save the life or preserve the physicians were members of AMA, but as practitioners and physician assistants to health of the woman.” But the group con- of 2012, AMA says about 20 percent of perform abortions, rather than physi- cluded a doctor should still be free to per- physicians are members. Stevens said cians only. And the AMA continues to form the procedure, which it called intact the numbers show the group is no lon- oppose physician-assisted suicide. dilation and extraction, or “intact D&X.” ger representative of physicians. The organization is not as radically Kagan sent ACOG potential changes “[They say,] ‘We’re about women’s pro-abortion as the American College of to the draft, including an added sentence health,’ but then they turn around and say Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), to follow up on the “no circumstances” you shouldn’t have to meet the require-

which opposed the federal ban on line: “An intact D&X, however, may be ment of an outpatient ambulatory surgical REX ARBOGAST/APCHARLES partial-birth abortion. ACOG has not the best or most appropriate procedure center,” said Stevens. “Abortion is the most robustly supported conscience protec- in a particular circumstance to save the unregulated healthcare industry in the tions for its doctors—a committee opin- life or preserve the health of a woman.” country, and it’s because it’s a sacred cow.” ion said pro-life doctors have a “duty” to In the end, ACOG incorporated The Supreme Court is expected to refer patients to abortionists. Even before Kagan’s sentence—verbatim—into its rule on Whole Woman’s Health by the end the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, ACOG final statement, published in 1997. of June. A

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So the 30-year-old she counts five babies who in a carrier and go out there jointed, atomized in various lawyer and mother of two survived, including twins. and pray,” she said this past ways,” Pfundstein said. organized a vigil that even- She arrived at that number fall, when she was still on “Now … the institutions take tually drew 200 volunteers from pregnant women who maternity leave. “We’re out it more seriously.” to pray outside the Planned told the volunteers they had there all the time.” Protestant churches in Parenthood center for 40 changed their minds and Gadwood said volunteers Manhattan tend to focus days. from women who accepted also saw an ambulance less on the activist side of Planned Parenthood had a referral to Sisters of Life, a arrive at the abortion center the movement and more on security guards standing at Catholic religious order that and take a woman away on doing behind-the-scenes helps women a stretcher. Typically six or work, like counseling, through every- seven women go into this adoption, and pregnancy thing from crisis Planned Parenthood center support. Evangelical pregnancies to an hour, but foot traffic was churches like Redeemer immigration down toward the end of the Presbyterian Church are issues. One first vigil: On one morning, big supporters of Avail NYC, woman couldn’t Gadwood said, they saw a pro-life pregnancy center have her sched- only two or three enter. in midtown. Evangelical uled abortion New York City has a churches in the other because she had sky-high abortion rate, boroughs–Queens, the eaten breakfast, though the figures have Bronx, Staten Island, and which she saw declined over the last few Brooklyn–are more as a sign. She left years. As of 2013, 37 per- involved with outspoken and asked the cent of pregnancies here activism. sidewalk coun- ended in abortions, accord- Paul Horrocks, a long- selors for help, ing to the Princeton, N.J.– time New Yorker, takes the and they took her based Chiaroscuro outspoken approach. He to Sisters of Life. Foundation, which calcu- heads up NYC Loves Life, a The prayer lates the rate based on the 2-year-old group that group’s guide- city’s public abortion data. reaches out to Protestant lines, in an effort Chiaroscuro has pub- churches to educate them to keep a prayer- lished reports on the city’s about abortion rates in the ful atmosphere abortion rate since 2011, city and encourage them to instead of a and in 2014 its political bring up the issue. Horrocks protest atmo- action committee put promoted the 40 Days for sphere, forbid $200,000 into five New York Life event among Protestants signs or images. state Senate races, winning in the city. Gadwood Gadwood all five. The Republican “I have become more instructed gains in that election defini- aware of a remnant that is the entrance to the abortion volunteers not to approach tively ended New York Gov. really passionate about center, across the street women or staff entering or Andrew Cuomo’s effort to this,” he said. “I’m optimis- from the praying volunteers. leaving the center and to pass a bill expanding the tic that that remnant can The volunteers said most obey any police orders. legality of abortion in the grow.” passersby made negative Gadwood’s goal was to state. Elections aside, Before Gadwood orga- comments to them, some- have people praying outside Chiaroscuro’s President nized the prayer vigil, Sean times hurling curse words, the center for 13 hours Greg Pfundstein, a Catholic, Dening had been taking his but they received encour- each day, even on week- believes the city’s Christian lunch break the last four agement every once in a ends. She estimates they institutions are getting years to go pray by himself while. Several post-abortive had someone for about 80 more organized on pro-life outside the Planned women approached the percent of that time, an activism. The movement Parenthood headquarters praying volunteers to talk achievement among busy has largely been local and nearby. Now he was thrilled NAJLAH FEANNY/GENESIS NAJLAH as well. Manhattanites. Beginning grassroots. to find other pro-lifers to Gadwood said over the on Feb. 10, the volunteers “It’s a very large number pray with. 40 days, seven women began another 40-day vigil. who are supporters and “This is the abortion turned around from enter- “Whenever my 2-year- personally pro-life, but the capital,” said Dening. ing the abortion center, and old needs a nap, I drop him activists have been dis- “Something is happening.” A

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Production at safeguarding our the Mercedes- future by employ- Benz plant in Sindelfingen ing more people.” Schaefer is trying to streamline production at Mercedes-Benz’s massive plant in Sindelfingen, Germany, where the manufacturing process relies on crews of skilled workers. In the past, reprogramming robots for new assem- bly patterns took several weeks, during which time production was shut down. But a human-crewed production line can be shifted in a weekend. “The variety is too much to take on for the machines,” said Schaefer, who Pink slip for robots told Bloomberg his goal is to halve the FOR A GERMAN CARMAKER, HUMANS PROVE MORE time needed to produce a car from 61 EFFICIENT THAN AUTOMATION by Michael Cochrane hours to 30. “They can’t work with all the different options and keep pace with changes.” The conventional wisdom says controlled cup holders, automaker Mercedes-Benz won’t completely R it’s only a matter of time before Mercedes-Benz has chosen to cut back eliminate robots on its production robots take over most human jobs. But on the number of robots on its S- and lines. But they’ll likely be smaller, oper- that wisdom may not hold—at least E-Class sedan production lines and ating alongside human workers rather when it comes to automobile manufac- replace them with humans. than set off behind safety barriers. turing, where human workers are “Robots can’t deal with the degree With pressure on automakers to making a comeback. of individualization and the many vari- upgrade models more frequently In response to the increasing ants that we have today,” Markus and incorporate the latest technol- demand for car models with a wide Schaefer, the German automaker’s ogy, the future of auto manufactur- variety of customized options, such as head of production, told Bloomberg ing may involve both humans and carbon fiber trim and temperature- Business. “We’re saving money and lightweight, sensor-equipped robots.

Long-term memories About the size of a half- All our digital treasures will eventually wear out: dollar coin, each glass disc According to technology website Gizmag, CDs and can store 360 terabytes of DVDs—along with the music, videos, and documents data, according to we think we’ve permanently captured—can researchers who developed deteriorate in decades. The current state of the art the technology at the for digital storage in those forms lasts no more than university’s Optoelectronics about a century. Research Center. That’s as But now scientists at the University of Southampton much storage as nearly half in England have demonstrated a data storage tech- a million conventional CDs. nology they claim will preserve digital data for at As a proof of concept, least 13 billion years, according to a university press the researchers have release. already recorded the King The technique, called five-dimensional storage, James Bible, the Magna uses a laser to record layers of microscopic dots in a Carta, and the Universal disc of fused quartz glass. The resulting nanoscale Declaration of Human Rights. grating changes the polarization of light passing They believe the through the glass. Users can then read the disc using an preservation technique would be useful for organizations optical microscope and a filter, similar to those found in with large book or data collections, such as national archives, polarized sunglasses. museums, and libraries. —M.C. MERCEDES-BENZ: CALAGAN/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP DENIZ FIVE-DIMENSIONAL STORAGE: • UNIVERSITY SOUTHAMPTON OF

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mice resulted in growth hormone resistance that stunted growth. But they were able to eliminate growth hormone resistance by colonizing undernourished mice with a Poison strain of the bacteria pain- Lactobacillus. killer In a third study, published in Cell, researchers compared The bite of a the growth of germ-free mice Peruvian with that of mice colonized green velvet with the gut bacteria of tarantula is A severely toxic. But malnourished children. They malnourished Australian child in discovered the bacteria- South Sudan researchers colonized mice grew bigger want to use when they received sialic the venom to Childhood malnutrition Science, researchers planted acid, a sugar present in milk, help chronic R can cause developmental gut bacteria from both but the germ-free mice did pain sufferers. delays, cognitive impairment, healthy and malnourished not. They concluded that The research- susceptibility to infections, children into the guts of mice growth may be promoted by ers discov- and permanently stunted bred to be germ-free. Despite the byproducts released when ered the growth. It is also responsible consuming the same amount bacteria consume sialic acid. tarantula’s poison can for one-third of childhood of calories, the mice that were The researchers still need cause a chain deaths worldwide. colonized with bacteria from to determine whether of special Now, three new studies healthy children grew bigger humans would experience amino acids to published in February suggest than those colonized with the same results as the mice bind to the that manipulating the gut bacteria from malnourished in these experiments. If so, membranes of bacteria of nutritionally children. new probiotic food additives, nerve cells deprived children may help to A separate team of once tested for safety, could and inhibit protect them from the usual researchers in France, also help ensure fewer children pain-related health effects. publishing in Science, found suffer the effects of signals. • BATS:CHILD: MATTHEW ABBOTT/AP ECOPIC/ISTOCK TERRARISTIKLADEN • TARANTULA: In one study, published in that chronic malnutrition in undernutrition. The research, presented at the Biophysical Bat lessons Society’s 60th Annual Bats carry over 100 viruses, including Ebola and Middle East respiratory Meeting in syndrome. Yet they never get sick from these pathogens, some of February, which are lethal to humans. A team of Australian researchers may have could lead to a discovered an answer to this puzzle that could lead to new ways of new genera- protecting people from deadly infectious diseases. tion of pain The researchers, whose study was published in the February edition relievers more of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, discovered that powerful than although the human immune system only activates in response to an morphine but infection, a bat’s immune system is switched on all the time—a condition that would be toxic for humans. without the When immune cells detect an invading virus, they release proteins called interferons that prevent side effects the virus from replicating and fire up the entire immune system. The scientists were surprised to find and addictive that bats have only three interferons: Humans have four times as many. properties. Clues from these bat immune system oddities could help scientists learn how to produce similar —J.B. immunity in humans, perhaps providing a defense against deadly diseases like Ebola. —J.B.

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62 WORLD APRIL 2, 2016 ANDRÉE SEU PETERSON O’Donnell insults but become wildly popular. So what’s up with that? Has the Bible failed? Is it not really the case that “dead flies make the perfum- er’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor” (Ecclesiastes 10:1)? Is it erroneous that “whoever desires to love life and see good days” will “keep his tongue from evil” (1 Peter 3:10)? Or that “death and life Campaign folly are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs BIBLICAL TRUTHS AND THE SUCCESS OF 18:21)? Or that “it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person but what comes out A SELF-ABSORBED BOASTER of the mouth; this defiles a person” (Matthew 15:11)? Is Lady “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Wisdom’s R Avenue and shoot somebody, and I exaltation of wouldn’t lose any voters,” Donald Trump said “discretion” and in Sioux Center, Iowa, in January. And he will “lips [that] continue to say such things. guard knowl- How do we know that? Without being a edge” (Proverbs prophet, how do we know what a man is likely 5:2) overrated? to speak before he speaks it? Because the Bible These Bible tells us so, that’s how: “Out of the abundance of sayings are all the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45). A fool true. The pres- will return to his folly; you can set your watch ent situation by it (Proverbs 26:11). Maybe not the next day, Trump not merely deepens my puzzlement, as it deepened but here is a biblical principle on which you can the Apostle Paul’s: “You bear it if someone … rely: The fool shows his colors sooner or later. only survived puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. To my Or to quote John Lennon: “One thing you can’t the McCain shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!” hide is when you’re crippled inside.” In Old and Rosie (2 Corinthians 11:20-21). And yet there it is: Testament phrasing: “If it seems slow, wait for There is something in human nature that, for it; it will surely come, it will not delay” O’Donnell whatever reason, will rally behind a self- (Habakkuk 2:3). The wise man stands by and insults but absorbed boaster. There is something in people watches the fool self-destruct. became wildly that even wants to flatter his ego: “They make Sure enough, early impressions of Trump much of you, but for no good purpose. They still seem fresh as a daisy. Folly after folly popular. want to shut you out, that you may make much tumbles out of the hole in Trump’s face, with no of them” (Galatians 4:17). more thought behind them than a wind-up doll The twisted dynamic is not unforeseen in with 10 recordings on the tape, all bad. The Scripture. One day the boaster of all boasters Bible calls foolish even the man who cleans up will rise up, and rather than laughing him off after the fool, “for if you deliver him you will the podium, people will follow him in droves. only have to do it again” (Proverbs 19:19). He will have “a mouth uttering haughty and One of Trump’s early campaign attacks was blasphemous words” and will be “allowed to against Sen. John McCain. When I watched him exercise authority” and “to make war” say he preferred soldiers who weren’t captured, (Revelation 13:5-7). Not only that but “all who my distinct impression was that he didn’t even dwell on earth will worship it” (verse 8). mean it; he just said it because it came into his All biblical principles are true in their own head and he has no mind-mouth filter. This fil- time. There is a time that “whoever works his ter is usually in place by age 9 in a civil society, land will have plenty of bread” (Proverbs 12:11) but certainly before promotion to leader of the and a time when “the wages of the laborers” free world. Which is to say, before the fate of a are “kept back by fraud” and “the cries of the Denmark at peace is at stake, to muse on Ted harvesters” reach “the ears of the Lord of Cruz’s nightmare of waking up to find Trump hosts” (James 5:4). had nuked the Scandinavian nation. We shall wait and see how this plays out in But Trump did not self-destruct. Trump A Trump campaign God’s capable hands. And hope for the best for would not only survive the McCain and Rosie rally in New Orleans Denmark. A GERALD HERBERT/AP

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