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cover story 34 What goes into the mouth The material symbol of God’s blessings at Thanksgiving time is a table laden with food, but many of us have trouble accepting grace. As legitimate concerns about obesity rise, so does the danger of turning healthy eating into an idol

features 40 Dying of old age Obamacare is crushing the people it needs most— young adults 44 Not Annie The Musical The little-discussed side of adoption is the crisis some dispatches families face with traumatized 7 News children 52 Men on the street 16 Quotables 48 Game Many praise street evangelism, 18 Quick Takes ender others dislike it. Our reporter watched and spoke with reviews A Hollywood many street evangelists, 23 Movies & TV franchise in compared those who the making discuss with those who rant, 26 Books falls flat over and discovered more variety 28 Q&A its author’s than meets the eye 30 Music commitment to traditional 7 marriage COVER illustration by krieg barrie notebook 61 Lifestyle 63 Technology 64 Science 65 Houses of God 66 Sports 67 Money 68 Religion

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F r i d a y, Nov.  Airport attack A passenger shot and killed a TSA agent at a pre-security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport and injured two other agents. Federal oﬃ cers shot the suspect, Paul Ciancia, , of Los Angeles, and he remains in critical condition. Ciancia has no RED SOX: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP • NYPD: FUKADA/AP SHIHO • SEBELIUS: EVAN VUCCI/AP • PHILLIPS: HANDOUT history of mental illness but sent worrisome text messages to his father in Pennsylvania shortly before the shooting. His father alerted police, who contacted police in Los Angeles, who arrived at Ciancia’s home soon after he had left for the airport.

Abortion ruling Drone kill e th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals A U.S. drone killed the head of reinstated most of Texas’ new abortion Pakistan’s Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, restrictions after a district judge had who had been tied to the attack on a injury list. Various NFL players have tossed them out. e ruling revived the CIA outpost in Afghanistan that killed vented to the press that Martin should law that requires abortionists to have seven Americans. e strike was a have handled the bullying privately. admitting privileges at long-sought “What people want to call bullying is nearby hospitals. e victory for U.S. something that is never going away appeals court did toss intelligence but from football,” wrote former Dolphins out the law requiring also added strain player Lydon Murtha. “ is is a game of doctors to abide by to relations with high testosterone, with men hammer- FDA regulations in Pakistan. ing their bodies on a daily basis. You prescribing the Mehsud had are taught to be an aggressive person, abortion drug regimen been preparing and you typically do not make it to the RU-. e rulings to enter peace NFL if you are a passive were temporary, until talks with the person.” e NFL is the court hears the Pakistani investigating the

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Tu e s d a y, Nov.  Election Day In Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the governorship in an unexpected nail-biter with Republican Ken Cuccinelli. e Republican Party had largely abandoned Cuccinelli in terms of resources, and McAuliff e outspent him -to-. Cuccinelli asserted NAGHMEH: ADELLE M. BANKS/RNS • MCAULIFFE: ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES • ARUN INDIA: SANKAR K/AP • RU-486: MANOOCHER DEGHATI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • CATHY: RIC FELD/AP that the failure of Obamacare’s launch brought him within striking distance of McAuliff e. In New J e r s e y, Re p u b l i c a n G ov. Chris Christie fl oated to reelection by a wide margin over Democratic state Senator Barbara Buono. Mo n d a y, Nov.  Christie won big in one demographic typically diffi cult for Republicans: Dangerous move Hispanics. Christie may only serve a couple years of American Iranian Pastor Saeed Abedini was moved from the frying pan to the fi re; his new term if he decides Iran had imprisoned Abedini in the notorious Evin prison, but moved him Nov.  to to run for president in . the dangerous Rajai Shahr prison, populated with murderers who often kill fellow prisoners. “ is prison is where prisoners are sent to disappear,” said Ann Buwalda of the Jubilee Campaign. “I am more concerned now about his safety than at any From India to Mars other time during his imprisonment,” said Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh, in a statement. India’s space “He is truly defenseless in this prison. … I am grateful for everything our government agency launched has done in the past, but now during this most dangerous and uncertain time I once its fi rst satel- again call on our government–including President Obama–to fi ght for Saeed’s life lite with and his freedom, to fi ght for this U.S. citizen.” Mars as its destination, and with a Abortion ruling, II much smaller e Supreme Court, after initially granting its price tag than fi rst case on abortion regulations since , similar NASA mis- declined to hear arguments on Oklahoma’s sions. e project has a budget of  regulation of the abortion drug RU- and let million, compared to NASA’s  the lower court ruling striking the regulation million Mars satellite set to launch in stand. e court simply said the case was late November. If successful–the “improvidently granted,” with no further journey will take  months–India explanation. e justices may be looking for a would be the fi rst Asian country to broader case to address the proliferation of reach Mars. China and Japan’s

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Retired Chick-ﬁ l-A president and CEO Truett Cathy, , is retiring after  years on the job. Cathy, a devout Christian, began the fast-food giant in  and built it to more than , stores in  states—all of which remain closed on Sundays. Cathy will remain as chairman emeritus while his son, Dan Cathy, takes over as president and

CEO of the chain that brought in more than . billion in . A company statement said Truett Cathy will now CREDIT focus on entrepreneurial work, including Truett’s Luau, a new restaurant opening in Fayetteville, Ga. in December.

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24 NEWS-1&2.indd 12 11/13/13 11:50 AM F r i d a y, Nov.  Middle East murder mystery Swiss scientists investigating the  death of former Palestinian National Authority President Yasser Arafat concluded that he died of radiation poisoning, likely by ingesting the NAGHMEH: ADELLE M. BANKS/RNS • MCAULIFFE: ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES • ARUN INDIA: SANKAR K/AP • RU-486: MANOOCHER DEGHATI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • CATHY: RIC FELD/AP radioactive substance polonium. A Soviet team confi rmed that Arafat died “by toxic substance.” Arafat’s body was exhumed earlier this year so investigators could determine whether he was poisoned. It had been believed that Arafat died from an illness. e question now is, Who poisoned him? Palestinian leaders point to Israel. Palestinian investigator Tawfi k Tirawi called Israel “the fi rst, funda- mental, and only suspect in the assas- sination of Yasser Arafat.” Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, denied Israeli T h u r s d a y, Nov.  involvement: “Let me state as simply So sorry as I can: Israel did not kill Arafat.” President Barack Obama apologized that many Americans had lost their insurance policies after his repeated promise that they wouldn’t under his healthcare law. “I am sorry that they are fi nding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” he said in an interview with NBC News. In  Obama had said, “If you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” Obama said his staff was looking into administrative options for helping those who had lost insurance and couldn’t aff ord the available policies.

Navy crimes Navy offi cials revealed that a massive internal bribery case continues to expand in scope, as they arrested a third senior Navy offi cial and opened a probe into two admirals. e case centers around a Navy contractor, Glenn Davis Marine, whose Malaysian CEO Leonard Glenn Francis allegedly bribed Navy offi cials with prostitutes and money. In exchange, offi cials allegedly helped Francis hold onto his contracts, and overpaid him in millions of dollars. According to prosecutors, several Navy moles may have leaked classifi ed information to Francis so he could avoid

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Declared Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, , has declared his candidacy for Congress, saying Americans would be shocked to know what’s happening inside the Obama White House. Bongino quit the Secret Service after  years amid a “fog of scandals” that he claims are “worse than people know.” Bongino, who failed in a bid for the U.S. Senate

CREDIT last year, will run as a Republican against incumbent Maryland Democrat John Delaney. e Secret Service says Bongino is only trying to draw attention to himself: His book, Life Inside the Bubble, comes out this month.

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Died Perry Inhofe, , son of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., died Nov.  in an airplane crash near Tulsa. Inhofe, an orthopedic surgeon, was fl ying a  Mitsubishi aircraft when it went down fi ve miles north of the Tulsa International Airport. Jim Inhofe, , who had quadruple bypass surgery last month, has been a pilot for more than  years and sometimes fl ies his own plane to campaign stops around the state. In September, Perry Inhofe’s -year-old son, Cole, made his fi rst landing to continue the family tradition. Jim (left) and Perry

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  After dropping off a fare on Oct. , German taxi driver omas Gunter noticed something in his backseat. e elderly couple he had dropped off at their Wurzburg, Germany, home had accidentally left a large envelope. Peeking inside the package, Gunter saw , euros (more than ,) in -euro notes. Rather than keep the money, Gunter went back to the home so he could return the package to the then-distraught couple. After all, keeping the money “would probably be the downfall of the old couple,” he told e L o c a l . And though he was off ered a reward for returning the lost nest egg, the cab

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24 QUICK TAKES recovered.indd 18 11/12/13 4:02 PM   If Xavier Lott ever gets pulled over again, he may think twice about  ’  using a fake name. On Wine for cats? In Japan, where the Oct. , Oklahoma human population is falling, feline City police pulled luxury is apparently rising. Pet Lott over because he supplement manufacturer B&H had a broken tag light. Lifes began rolling out nonalcoholic When the oﬃ cer asked cat wine on Oct.  for Japanese Lott for his name, the pet owners. According to the Oklahoma man feared he might have a warrant for company, the cabernet-tasting his arrest. So he provided the oﬃ cer with his broth- beverage contains no alcohol but er’s name. What he didn’t know was that his brother plenty of catnip. B&H suggests also had a warrant for his arrest. Police eventually owners use it to celebrate sorted the confusion and charged Lott with one holidays or birthdays with their count of false personation. feline companions.

  In the ongoing war against pirates off the Horn of Africa, British merchant navy captains have a new secret weapon: Britney Spears. Loudspeakers blasting hits like “Oops! I Did It Again” and “Baby One More Time” have successfully warded off Somali pirates attempting to board cargo vessels traversing the Indian Ocean. Second Offi cer Rachel Owens told the Mirror that the Western pop culture oozing from Spears’ singles is often enough to repulse the marauding pirates: “Her songs have been chosen by the security team accompanying our tankers because they thought the WAGENEN: HANDOUT • NECKLACE: ZHENGQUANER/ISTOCK • BEAR: HANDOUT • SKILLET: EERIK/ISTOCK • CASH: MARK WRAGG pirates would hate them most.”

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Family and forgiveness MOVIE: If you’ve ever been to a black Baptist the nativity story. The play was first performed church, you know you’re in for a cascade Off-Broadway in 1961 and still appears in various A dazzling cast of full-body, full-spirit praise and dance. theaters across the nation. The on-screen version and timeless >> Now imagine that performed as a hopes to appeal to the mainstream public with values propel Christmas musical drama—a mishmash of classic the addition of a high-caliber cast that includes Christmas hymns, soul-stirring gospel, and award-winning actors Forest Whitaker (The Black Nativity contemporary rap—and you’ve got the film Black Last King of Scotland) and Jennifer Hudson by Sophia Lee Nativity. (Dreamgirls). Black Nativity (rated PG for thematic material, Like the play, writer/director Kasi Lemmons language, and a menacing situation) is adapted swaths old-time carols with hand-swaying,

searchlight from Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes’ foot-stomping enthusiasm, brilliant colors, and

fox most celebrated play, an all-black cast remake of Afrocentric percussion. That nativity scene plays

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24 MOVIES & TV.indd 23 11/12/13 10:01 AM Reviews > Movies & TV MOVIE Thor: The Dark World by Emily Belz out in a dream sequence, but the main story is meet the grandparents. Thor: The Dark World, colloquially known as Thor 2, Teenager Langston (played by precocious 17-year-old Jacob >> is another Marvel Comics movie in the prolific family of Latimore) travels from Baltimore to Manhattan on a Peter Pan The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and bus, with little more than a heavy parka and a backpack. He Iron Man, but audiences aren’t tired yet, judging by Thor 2’s and his single mother, Naima (Jennifer Hudson), are being first box office returns. Thor 2 (rated PG-13 mainly for evicted, so his mother sends him to her estranged parents in violence that is a bit more intense than in Avengers) won’t Harlem for Christmas. be in any college film classes, but it sure is fun. Come for Standing pie-eyed among flashing billboards, glinting Tom Hiddleston’s performance as Loki, and stay for the skyscrapers, and pushing crowds, Langston has never felt final battle scene. lonelier. He doesn’t understand his prim-and-proper grand- Along the way the audience will have to deal with a parents, Rev. Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Whitaker and Angela messy plot strung across nine worlds–with some mental Bassett), and they don’t understand him. His grandfather, all leaps, the story hangs together, barely. Here the complexity dapper in a plaid coat, black vest, and pocket watch, criticizes of a Lord of the Rings storyline meets Star Wars, Norse his low-riding jeans during grace at dinner. His grandmother, mythology meets science fiction. The screenwriters also elegant and handsome in a rich-textured sweater and pearls, worked on The Chronicles of Narnia movies. Stir all of that embraces and studies him with sad eyes, but is otherwise a together with Marvel, and ta-dah: Thor. nervous hummingbird, flitting around trying to soothe tensions The story begins with thousands of years of prehistory between grandpa and grandson. involving a battle among Thor’s (Chris Hemsworth) people, Don’t watch Black Nativity for the thrill or suspense: the Asgardians, and the Dark Elves who are seeking the Despite some story “twists,” the plot is as predictable as the Aether, a floaty substance that would give the leader of the story of Baby Jesus. No, watch it for the dazzling scale of Dark Elves universe-destroying power. The Asgardians win, talents: Hudson’s clear-waterfall vocals dueting with Bassett’s and bury the Aether. Centuries later when the nine worlds silky baritone to “He Loves Me Still.” Grammy-winning Mary align and portals between worlds open, the Aether somehow J. Blige in a snowy Afro, belting out a new rendition of “Rise escapes into the body of Thor’s human love interest, Dr. Up Shepherd and Follow” with rapper Nas. And Latimore— Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). Heimdell (Idris Elba), the boy, can that teen trill a heartache. fantastic guardian of Asgard with an all-seeing eye, notices One of the major themes in Black Nativity—forgiveness that Foster is in trouble and and redemption—is central to the least likely character of the Thor rushes to Earth. movie: the Reverend. Stern and sorrowful at home, Rev. Cornell All of this sounds quite transforms into an exuberant preacher of God’s forgiveness on serious, but one of the Marvel the pulpit—but then in front of his congregation he reveals his franchise’s strong points is past mistake and begs his daughter’s forgiveness. It’s a powerful, that the superheroes aren’t joyful, yet tear-jerking scene. allowed to take themselves Executive producer Bishop T.D. Jakes, who edited the too seriously. In one scene script to reach “a wider faith-based audience,” said he wanted Thor arrives in a London Rev. Cornell to be “believable as a human, without being apartment, pauses at the disrespectful.” It’s a side of the clergy not often revealed in entryway, and hangs his Hollywood—and Whitaker nails it, humanizing the church hammer on a coat hook. leader with sympathetic rawness. Then there’s the Whitaker said he drew inspiration for his character from movie’s strongest asset: his own upbringing as a Baptist preacher’s grandson and a Loki, Thor’s evil adopted church elder’s son. He also watched sermons of famous brother. Loki com- preachers online, read the Scriptures, and tried to channel the pletely overshadows charisma of Martin Luther King Jr. “The big challenge was the scary Dark Elves ion

how to embody the character of a preacher in an honest way,” who appear to exist t

Whitaker said. “It’s a high-scrutiny job. A pastor is an impor- only for the final battle 2013 pora

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always translate into all areas in his personal life.” superhero movie, Loki lm Fi

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message to a faith-focused audience, Bassett said, “It’s about you,” Thor says at one t Mar ie knowing that you’re imperfect, but that God still extends his point. “Trust my t v e

grace and brings fellowship to you.” A rage,” says Loki. Twen

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24 MOVIES & TV.indd 24 11/13/13 9:36 AM MOVIE e Book ief   

I     the Grim Reaper as he is a Dickensian His incarnation. And in James , we >> where smartphones and selfi es are spirit who observes the comings and learn that words, as articulated by the our culture’s ubiquitous ornaments, a goings of man and takes them out of tongue, hold the power of life and fi lm like e Book ief comes as a the world when they complete the full death. much-needed reminder of the value of number of their days. Words are life, particularly when stories, of books, of words, and of life Death is not the star of this show; used in a story. If God used the story itself. little Leisel and her love for books is. form (the Bible) to communicate His e fi lm, based on the New York When she arrives at the home of Hans love and redemption to His people and Times bestseller by Marcus Zusak, and and Rosa Hubermann, Leisel is in Christ used the story form (parables) directed by Brian Percival (Downton shock from the death of her brother to transmit specifi c truths about God’s Abbey and North and South), tells the and loss of her mother. She tale of -year-old Leisel Meminger, cries herself to sleep every whose mother, fl eeing Nazi persecu- night, clutching a little book. tion, sends Leisel and her little brother Her foster father, Hans, to live with foster parents in Germany with small acts of kindness, in the years prior to World War II. slowly brings Leisel out of On the journey to their new home, her sorrow. He quickly real- the little boy dies, leaving Leisel alone izes she can’t read and off ers in the world. e themes of loss and to teach her if she’ll help dying pervade the PG- fi lm, with him be a better reader too. Death himself acting as the narrator. Together they go through Some might fi nd this morbid, but the booklet she keeps beside Zusak’s Death character is not as much her at night— e G r a v e Digger’s Handbook—a book she stole from the graveyard when her little brother was buried. kingdom, there must be something BOX OFFICE TOP 10 Each time Leisel encounters a new inherently powerful about it.     . - according to Box Offi ce Mojo word, she writes it in the “dictionary” Nevertheless, popular wisdom in Hans made for her. Little do they the church holds that if you have an CAUTIONS: Quantity of sexual (S), violent (V), and foul-language (L) content on a - know that these words, and Leisel’s hour to read, it should be spent on scale, with  high, from kids-in-mind.com love for them, would minister to a instructional literature or books of S V L young Jewish man named Max, who theology. Christian hipsters need to relearn what older generations of 2013 ` or: e Dark comes to Hans for shelter from the World* PG 13 ......    MVLFFLLC. Nazis. Max tells her that his religion Christians knew well, that stories are CORPORATION ` Bad Grandpa R ......    teaches that “words are life itself.” not an extravagance or indulgence. FILM ` Free Birds PG ......    Christians should heartily agree. In ey make us more human. ey FOX TM ` Last Vegas PG 13 ......    the Old Testament, God creates lan- transmit values and morality. ey &

© ` PG 13 ...... Ender’s Game*    guage and then uses words to commu- broaden our horizons. ey bring us 2013 CENTURY ` PG 13 ...... Gravity*    nicate His character and eternality to hope. MARVE ` 12 Years a Slave* R ......    His chosen people (I AM). In John :-, Stories, as we poignantly discover ` Captain Phillips* PG 13 ......    TWENTIETH He uses the title “the Word” to express in e Book ief, are life itself. ` About Time R ......    ` Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 PG ......    See all our movie reviews at wng.org/movies NOVEMBER 30, 2013 • WORLD  *Reviewed by WORLD

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M H’ six- carry out any reproof or discipline.” volume Commentary on the He maintained a sense of God’s An oldie Whole Bible has long been providence, and when robbed in >> an evangelical favorite for  wrote of his thankfulness to but goodie its combination of thoroughness, God that having “travel’d so much, specifi c detail, and price: It’s yet I was never Rob’d before now.” ose who relish Matthew Henry’s never been hugely expensive, and Henry died in  of a stroke, commentary will enjoy a its Kindle edition now sells for  while on a preaching tour, but left new biography of the English cents. ose who relish it—I’m behind his almost-completed one—will profi t from Allan Commentary. Other pastors, BY MARVIN OLASKY pastor Harman’s readable new biography, working off his notes, fi nished it. Matthew Henry: His Life and at year also saw the birth of the I n fl u e n c e (Christian Focus, ). greatest th-century preacher, Henry was a DPK, a dissenting George Whitefi eld, who later wrote preacher’s kid: In , the year of how he read through the six Henry was born, a London gov- volumes four times, the last time on ernment edict ejected from the his knees. e leading th-century pulpit Philip Henry and , preacher, Charles Spurgeon, said, other Puritan-oriented pastors “Every minister ought to read it who refused to take an oath of entirely and carefully through once conformity to Anglicanism. a t l e a s t.” Matthew was close to his father, One fan in  praised Henry’s and learning to preach well was combination of “brevity and wit the best revenge, so when that makes his Commentary such regulations eased in  six racy and delightful reading, and so Presbyterian ministers ordained memorable.” e word racy then him. He was soon preaching in meant a book fi lled with specifi c Chester, a town  miles north- detail, although Henry’s exegesis of west of London. chapter  of Genesis shows why Henry knew affl iction, losing “the war between the sexes” should to death a young wife and three be a benevolent peace: “ e woman daughters. Henry also had profes- was made of a rib out of the side of sional problems: Arsonists who Adam; not made out of his head to didn’t like his Reformed preach- rule over him, nor out of his feet to ing tried to burn down his chapel be trampled upon by him, but out in , and Harman writes that of his side to be equal with him, “from within his congregation he under his arm to be protected, and Matthew Henry was discouraged when he tried to near his heart to be beloved.”

Another Jesus bestseller e one time I went in person on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show, a producer pleaded with me to “get him mad.” Should the bestseller Killing Jesus, by O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt, ), make Christians mad? I think not, although the authors underplay Jesus’ miracles, state that before the Last Supper “panic is overtaking” Jesus, and leave out most of the last words spoken from the cross. e good news is that O’Reilly and Dugard tell the story dramatically enough that some book buyers may want to learn KEAN COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES

more by reading the real good news brought out by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. COLLECTION/GETTY If Killing Jesus helps imbibers of atheism to realize that something extraordinary happened two millennia ago, it serves a useful purpose—but a much better book to give curious people is Tim Keller’s Encounters with Jesus (Dutton, ). Keller takes aim at the ideas that we should will ourselves to faith in Jesus, then follow in His steps, then have lives that go well. No, Keller writes: Faith in Christ is “impossible for anyone without outside intervention,” Jesus does not “model for us the answers to the big questions” IMAGES (for He is the answer), and Jesus, after being “loved and aﬃ rmed and empowered by God … is ushered into the clutches of the devil. … No one

is exempt from trials and tribulations.” —M.O. HANDOUT

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24 BOOKS.indd 26 11/7/13 2:41 PM NOTABLE BOOKS Four recent Christian novels > reviewed by  

e Outcast Jolina Petersheim In this modern version of e Scarlet Letter, Rachel Stoltzfus lives within a community of Old Order Mennonites. She has had a child out of wedlock, and the scorn she experiences begins to dissolve her relationships, including her close friendship with her twin sister. When her longtime suitor, Judah, oﬀ ers to marry her and give her a new beginning, Rachel puts him oﬀ , choosing instead to seek inde- pendence outside the community. But soon, an unexpected illness pushes her to reach out to those she left behind. Like Hawthorne, Petersheim clearly dramatizes the weight of sin, but she deviates from the original by leaving room for repentance.

Clear Winter Nights Trevin Wax SPOTLIGHT Trevin Wax is known primarily for his nonfi ction, including two books and many articles with publications like Christianity Today. e Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the But in his fi rst work of fi ction, which he terms “theology in story,” FullFull Love Story of Christmas by Wax uses the tale of a doubting omas named Chris to convey sound, biblical theology in an engaging way. While the book isn’t as Ann Voskamp brings the author’s artistic as C.S. Lewis’ e Screwtape Letters, it does contain many unique writing style—grace-fi lled, of the same positives. Chris wrestles aloud with his questions powerful, and poetic—to the about Christianity (Aren’t all religions the same? Would Jesus subject of Christ’s advent. Using really condemn homosexuals?), while his grandfather lovingly the tradition of the answers them with hard-won wisdom from the pastoral trenches. Jesse Tree (which An entertaining and benefi cial read. includes printable e Merciful Scar Rebecca St. James and Nancy Rue ornaments on her Grammy-winning Christian recording artist Rebecca St. James website), e says she has spoken with many young women who struggle Greatest Gift o ff e r s with cutting—a form of self-injury used to cope with stress.  Scripture readings Joined by seasoned teen author Nancy Rue, the two bring the and meditations, as practice to light through the story of Kirsten, a college well as poignant quotes and a architecture student who ends up in a local hospital after a to-do section with small ways of cutting accident. e kindness that Kirsten is off ered through a campus minister and others is moving, and her attempts to “Unwrapping More of His Love in recover on a working farm lead to romance and newfound the World.” As she works through strength. Her journey toward freedom—from cutting as well the Old Testament preparation for as the brokenness that drives her behavior—is centered on Christ, Voskamp invites readers to her own experience, without Christ or His Word.Word. peel back layers of sin and senti- mentality that cloud our vision A Land Without Sin: A Novel Paula Huston during the Christmas season and When veteran photographer Eva sets out to fi nd her brother in rural Mexico, she takes a job photographing Mayan ruins to avoid savor again God’s salvation. suspicion. Mexican landowners and local peasants have been in Some readers may balk at an armed confl ict for some time, and since both mistrust Americans, occasionaloccasional strained metaphor, KEAN COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES she discreetly searches for clues about her brother’s whereabouts.

COLLECTION/GETTY such as calling the Christian a While the book contains drama, Eva’s growth throughout the story “womb” in which Jesus may dwell. is the real focus. She is deeply aff ected by the piety of her employ- But for those who appreciate er’s family, and her brother’s letters, among other things, challenge Voskamp’s emotional, literary her selfi sh worldview. Despite questionable theology and off ensive IMAGES language, the book wrestles masterfully with ideas of grace and style, e Greatest Gift may itself

HANDOUT redemption. be a gift worth unwrapping. —E.W.

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How can we trust report- ers when so many are angling for jobs in the Obama administration? It Town crier happened in the Clinton and e disconnect between the country and Washington, Bush administrations to some says reporter MARK LEIBOVICH, is unsustainable degree, but much more now. It makes it harder for those of us BY MARVIN OLASKY and perverse still on this side of the fence to convince people that we don’t M L, a country is moving to the left.” brand. People see one of have an agenda and are not New York Times ese are all assumptions bred those jobs as a ticketticket to be looking for the next job inside Washington reporter by the same conversation in punched for life: You just stay the administration. In the case >> and author of the hot- the same echo chamber. in Washington. of Obama, it nourishes every- selling i s T o w n (Penguin), You’re a member of a Some politicians com- one’s worst suspicion about the is the most honest main- conservative (that is, mod- plain about lobbyists and press being completely in bed stream journalist I’ve met erate) Jewish congregation say, “Let’s have a reform with Obama and favoringfavoring him. concerning reporting in in Washington, Adas Israel, bill.” Is talk of reform real- You write that the ART COX/PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE Washington. Here are edited and the journalist who istic as long as Washington Obama folks in  excerpts of my interview wrote about your member- swims in so much money “off ered themselves as with him in front of students ship said, “I haven’t seen and power? Won’t folks go incorruptible canaries that at Patrick Henry College. him bring it up much but it where the money is? e y would fl y above the fi lthy You’ve written critically doesn’t seem faked either.” will. at’s a huge problem fl attery minds of D.C. ey about Washington’s jour- I guess that’s good, right? I now. ere have always been would refuse to play. ey nalistic culture, in which think it’s genuine. I don’t think greedy, opportunistic, would stay humble and you’re a major player. Why? it’s faked. ambitious types drawn to focus on their work.” What I don’t mind making people But Washington hosts a uncomfortable. I wanted to lot of fakery? Faith is often start a diffi cult conversation used as a political, social because the level of distrust climbing pose in Washington, ‘ is town leans left and and dissatisfaction out in the and that’s one of the reasons I country for Washington now, start i s T o w n at the funeral assumes like-mindedness compared with the level of self- of Tim Russert in . I was satisfaction and decadence struck by all the invocations of so it tends to be inside Washington, is unsus- God in a lot of the tributes: “In tainable and perverse. heaven’s green room people especially tough on its For  years a lot of peo- are now watching Tim.” I ple have seen in Washington thought it was ridiculous. own if respect is not paid.’ a huge amount of group- You write in i s T o w n think, often of an ideological how so many former sena- cast—not a conspiracy, but a tors or cabinet secretaries Washington, but now there is common way of perceiving “stick to Washington like so much money in the political things. Do you see that? melted cheese on a gold system, and Washington is by I think so. Washington itself is plated toaster.” It’s true. Our far the wealthiest metropoli- a tiny town. When people talk founders imagined a capital tan area in the United States, to the same  people every where people would go, serve, with seven of the  wealthi- day, as many people who cover and then return to their com- est counties in the United Washington do, and many peo- munities and immerse them- States. e local economy did ple who work in Washington selves in the farm or medical not hiccuphiccup during the on either side do, it nourishes practice or general store. Now recession of the rest of a bunch of assumptions, people just stay. Once you’ve the country. Once whether it’s “America’s not been elected to the Senate or you’re in Washington ready for a black president,” or you get a plum White House you can cash in in “ ere are weapons of mass position and something that any number of

destruction in Iraq,” or “ e gets you on TV, you can build a ways. CREDIT

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24 Q&A.indd 28 11/8/13 9:29 AM happened? ey failed—to be month and it got them there. and assumes like- hypocrisy and hand- perfectly blunt. Most of the Obama himself has said his mindedness so it tends to wringing from the people who put his campaign inability to change anything be especially tough on its left over his impurity, but together were people who live has been one of his biggest own if respect is not paid.” after everyone got over in Washington or political failures. I honestly don’t know I knew you were going to read their shock and outrage, insiders who had been how hard he tried. that passage. I’ve gotten into this town celebrated the through any number of cam- In i s T o w n you don’t all kinds of trouble for it. I fl ip-fl op. It was not only paigns and packaging and spend much room on think it’s true. Look at the foreseen, but great for messaging eff orts. Maybe that ideology, but you do say, voting records. I live in business.” e more power was just the fl avor of the “ is town leans left northwest Washington and comes to Washington, the don’t know a lot of evangelical more money comes to conservatives in my Washington. at’s great neighborhood. I don’t know of for the business of any in my newsroom. ere journalists, media people, could be this completely and consultants in secretive world that exists Washington. Sure. People and doesn’t talk to me, but I can decry this all they want. just haven’t seen it. I know a Hundreds of millions of dollars ART COX/PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE lot of deeply religious people come flowing to a lot of the who live in Washington or media companies and around Washington. ey’re in strategists who are paid politics, and you’d have to talk directly by these super PACs. to them about whether they One of the biggest disconnects feel like outsiders herhere.e. But there is economic. You wonder I’m just trying to speak who’s working for whom and honestly about the world I’m what job they have their eye covering. I don’t mind getting on and whether it’s the job heat for this. But it’s a fact. they were elected to do or You mention that what might come next. “Obama’s Super PAC You note that political reversal brought a few days consultants refer to rich, of predictable indignation self-funded candidates as from the right over his “checkbooks.” Any other terms we should know? e larger point you’re making, and I was making, is that many in Washington have contempt for their customers. ey see AmeAmericanrican voters as pawns to be manipulated. A CREDIT

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delivery to what often sounded like No Democratic Party talking points. As late average as 1996’s Set the Twilight Reeling, he guy was attacking Rush Limbaugh, Bob Dole, Lou Reed mixed a and “right-wing” Republicans in general nihilistic anti-aesthetic with profanity-laced with sentimental rage. sweetness But throughout his career Reed also nur- By arsenio orteza tured an almost sentimental sweetness. Just one album after Metal Machine Music, he was rhapsodizing about his Brooklyn youth in the beautiful (and, uncommonly for Reed, beautifully sung) “Coney Island Baby.” The flip side of “Walk on the Wild Side” was The massively influential It’s hard, for instance, to imagine the romantic masterpiece “Perfect rock poet and guitarist Lou Reed anyone but an acolyte of Warhol’s Day.” And “Vanishing Act” and “Who died on Sunday morning, Oct. 27, repetitive superficiality making an Am I? (Tripitena’s Song),” from The >> at age 71. Appreciators of coinci- album such as Reed’s notorious 1975 Raven, are every bit as reflective and dence will note that “Sunday Morning” feedback noisefest Metal Machine Music tender as “Hello It’s Me,” the moving is also the title of the first song on the or his obnoxiously heckler-baiting 1978 final track on the 1990 Andy Warhol– first album by the proto-punk band in live set Take No Prisoners. And surely based song cycle that Reed recorded which Reed first came to prominence, the transgressive subject matter for with his former Velvet Underground the Velvet Underground. which Reed became best known bandmate John Cale, Songs for Drella. The Velvet Underground & Nico was would’ve remained taboo for longer Then, of course, there’s “Jesus,” the produced by Andy Warhol, the group’s than it did had Warhol not made it chic. inexplicably meditative prayer from the original manager, and bore a peel-off Indeed, Reed’s 1972 hit “Walk on the Velvet Underground’s eponymous third Warhol banana print. Warhol and the Wild Side” was a jaded tribute to regu- album. (Reed was Jewish.) band soon parted ways, but Reed’s lars at Warhol’s studio, the Factory, and But perhaps most beautiful of all affection for his pop-art mentor the debauchery manufactured there. was “Sunday Morning.” endured. “I really admired him,” Reed But by 1980 a more well-rounded Maybe—just maybe—Reed’s softer said in 2003. “I mean, I still do because Reed had emerged. The man who’d side can be traced to his affection for he was so smart—so smart, so talented, celebrated heroin in a song of the same another one of his heroes, Dion DiMucci, absolutely good at everything, name and led many to believe he was the doo-wop rock-and-roller-turned- PATRICIA incredible.” homosexual was now drug free and Catholic-Christian whom Reed inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in DE

Reed had other heroes: the writers heterosexually married. “I’m just an MELO Delmore Schwartz (under whom Reed average guy,” he sang on his 1982 album 1989. “It was the kind of voice you studied at Syracuse University) and The Blue Mask. Given his circumstances, never forget,” said Reed of Dion in his MOREIRA/AFP/G Edgar Allan Poe (upon whose works it was possible to suspend disbelief. speech. “Whenever I hear it, I’m Reed based his 2003 album, The Reed’s average-guy phase peaked flooded with memories of what once ss ett Raven). But it was Warhol’s cynical and with 1984’s masterly New Sensations, was and what could be.” pre

often nihilistic anti-aesthetic that left but it didn’t last. By 1989’s New York, Listening to Reed’s music now that y I mag

the deepest mark on Reed’s prodigious he’d morphed into a snarky cookie- he’s gone, his many fans will know ociated e ss s

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24 MUSIC.indd 30 11/12/13 2:11 PM NOTABLE CDs SPOTLIGHT Recent classical or semi-classical releases > reviewed by   e attempt to help great poetry Beethoven: Complete Works for survive into the iPod age by setting Cello and Piano Colin Carr, Thomas Sauer it to classical music continues. And One way you can intelligently approach this two- although the music to which it’s set disc recording is to read the pianist omas Sauer’s on Tin Hat’s E.E. Cummings project erudite liner notes, which emphasize the  years of the rain is a handsome animal artistic development these compositions reveal, (New Amsterdam) and Kristin and listen along, seeing how many of the details that Sauer describes you can detect. (It’s easier Linklater and Martin Gonschorek’s than you think.) Another is to enjoy the fi ve front- Shakespeare Looking East: A loaded sonatas as “heavy” entertainment and the Selection of Sonnets and Yun Flute three subsequent variations as “light” encores. Solos (Music Agents Red Label) Either way, you’ll be one up on the masses who isn’t “classical” per se—it’s serious know only Beethoven’s Fifth and “Für Elise.” enough (and, when necessary, e Valley Sings: Choral Music by playful enough) to keep this most Composers of the Hudson Valley deserving of trends going. Kairos, a Consort of Singers Linklater, a Scottish thespian Under the conductor EdwEdwardard Lundergan, these singers and then some, and Gonschorek, a achieve one a cappella epiphany after another, show- casing not only the Hudson Valley composers mentioned fl autist, take the daring tack of in this album’s subtitle but also the Christian themes and juxtaposing the recitation of classic poetry those composers set to music. Among Shakespeare sonnets (Elizabethan the former: Aaron Copland’s “ ou, O Jehovah, Abideth West) with Isang Yun’s Korean Forever,” Panaiotis’ “Arise, My Love,” and James fl ute music (th-century East) Fitzwilliam’s “A Rose of Sharon.” Among the latter: Jonathan Russell’s and Lundergan’s James Joyce and Walt and hoping the twain shall meet. Whitman poems respectively. And in Peter W. Sipple’s ey don’t, at least not obviously. Gerard Manley Hopkins trilogy, faith and poetry merge. But even that they could intimates eternity. Meanwhile, the virtuosic, Recital Nigel Kennedy avant-gardist fl exibility of Tin Hat e double dedication to Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli foreshadows what the and its vocalist Carla Kihlstedt do British violin virtuoso Kennedy and his guitar- Cummings’ greatest hits a justice bass-drums-violin/viola quartet are aiming for— that one has to hear to believe. namely, to establish once and for allall (as Kennedy writes in the liner notes) “that music can be both serious and fun at the same time.” Four Fats Waller tunes and the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take Five” meet the concept halfway, and Ze Gomez’s “Por Do Sol” is lovely. But it’s Kennedy’s Bach-inspired “Allegro” and “Vivace” that hit the target. e Golden Age of PATRICIA Hollywood 4 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Don’t be fooled by the no-frills cover art or the indis- DE

MELO criminate inclinations of the RPO: Naxos of America (the label on which this album appears) hasn’t (yet) MOREIRA/AFP/GETTY diversiﬁ ed to the extent that it will put its name on just anything. ese faithfully rendered and creatively arranged soundtrack compositions from  famous ﬁ lms circa - exhilaratingly transcend both PRESS Muzak and nostalgia. And “Walk on the Wild Side: Suite” IMAGES is a timely reminder that Elmer Bernstein beat Lou Reed

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24 MINDY.indd 33 11/12/13 10:16 AM What goes into the mouth The material symbol of God’s blessings at Thanksgiving time is a table laden with food, but many of us have trouble accepting grace. As legitimate concerns about obesity rise, so does the danger of turning healthy eating into an idol

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24 FOOD.indd 34 11/12/13 4:24 PM 24 FOOD.indd 35 11/12/13 4:24 PM t’s not at all unusual in Southern and Daniel Amen (a psychiatrist)—because none of them California to overhear a group of shares the church’s Christian beliefs and values. Oz, for tanned, good-looking women discuss- example, follows a jumble of Muslim, cult-Christian, and New ing their favorite organic raw chocolate Age ideologies, and has a wife who’s a master of Reiki (a and gluten-free recipes over Starbucks Japanese life force mojo). He rose from heart surgeon to TV coffees. personality via Oprah and promotes questionable products But the 10 women in their 30s and and alternative treatments with adjectives like “miracle” and 40s (and two husbands) gathered on a “breakthrough.” Wednesday evening are members of a Saddleback leaders posted a response assuring Christians six-week Bible study, offered by of the medical expertise of these doctors, and emphasizing Rancho Community Church in the evangelistic benefits of working with such high-profile Temecula. And they’re not going off-topic. That night’s discussion was “See Your Health as a Stewardship,” the third session of Rick Warren’s “The Daniel Plan” curriculum—as in the biblical Daniel, who refused the king’s rich, meaty diet—and so should we, the plan advises. Warren created the program after baptizing 858 people. After dipping the 500th body into the water, Warren’s aching arms led him to conclude, “We’re all fat.” He Ilater elaborated to his congregation: “Now, I know pastors aren’t supposed to be thinking this while baptizing, but … that was what I thought: ‘We’re all fat!’ And then I thought, ‘But I’m fat! I’m a terrible model of this.’” That epiphany led to “The Daniel Plan,” now popular at Saddleback Church and others across the nation that already emphasize small groups for spiritual support—so why not use these groups for Weight Watchers–esque support? After all,

nearly a third of Americans are obese, and the rate of morbid figures: “We have already seen literally thousands of people S

obesity (meaning at least 100 pounds overweight) has jumped on our campus as a result of involving these physicians who RES P A

by more than 350 percent over the past 35 years. would never have otherwise visited.” M Millions of us face that fact with desperation and anxiety, Question: Is the gospel so weak that it needs health and ZU

throwing money into the coffers of the billion-dollar health diet celebrities to attract people to the church? What happens ster/ egi R and fitness industry and swallowing advice after advice on to the church when it becomes full of attendees primarily ery m

what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat. The most natural motivated to improve their bodies rather than seek after God? warren

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R he egi T Pri Christians are wandering in this health maze too. Physical Temecula, the 12 members sit in a half-moon at a classroom : p ster/ rez/ stewardship isn’t a common pulpit topic, and it’s good for with their Bibles and Daniel Plan study guides. They start with Delga grou ZU

Saddleback to encourage Christians to care not only for their a prayer, read the Scripture, then watch a short clip of Rick utier M G d

A o/ P. Plan spiritual health but their physical bodies also. But is the church Warren’s video sermon about taking care of the body God P O RESS na rang A perpetuating a health obsession instead of alleviating it? gave us. Attached to the sermon is Warren’s interview with Dr. aniel k: /new D c e

Some congregants criticized the choice of the three “top Mark Hyman about functional medicine, an alternative health County ula s leba c c experts” Warren consulted for The Daniel Plan—Mehmet Oz (a approach that takes an integrative outlook on the human e o dd m m a e

heart surgeon, of Dr. Oz fame), Mark Hyman (a physician), body and the environment. S T

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24 FOOD.indd 36 11/12/13 9:21 AM raw honey. … Would that be considered sugar?” A younger, dark-haired woman next to her piped up, “Daniel would have eaten raw honey!” Someone across the room asked, “What does the ‘Good Foods List’ on e Daniel Plan say?” Another woman talked about her pantry purge after watching a video on “ e Daniel Plan” website: She dumped bags of sugar, white rice, ﬂ our, and “bad oils” into the garbage. For lunch that day, she went to an organic health market and asked for a gluten-free wrap with nitrate-free chicken breasts. “So much better for me than In-N-Out,” she said, referring to the popular West Coast fast-food chain. Yet another woman, speaking for the ﬁ rst time, spoke up for her beloved fast-food chain. In-N-Out is a Christian business, she reminded them, and did you PRESS

know you can get the burger

REGISTER/ZUMA LIVE AND LET DIET: Dr. Oz measures the waistline “Protein Style”—wrapped in let- of Rick Warren during a health and ﬁ tness seminar WARREN tuce instead of the starchy bun? at Saddleback (left); the launch of e Daniel Plan COUNTY at Saddleback Church (above); members of e And they have a vegetarian patty, MONTGOMERY & Surrounded by another woman added. Montgomery tries to steer OZ: Daniel Plan group in Temecula (right). ORANGE

CARLOS alphabet posters and the conversation back to the key verse, “Everything REGISTER/ZUMA

PRISCILLA bright-colored baby is permissible, but not all is beneﬁ cial.” She asked

DELGADO/ORANGE stools, the group members get “de-programmed”—in group class members if they had enviously watched their children GROUP: leader Priscilla Montgomery’s words—of their ideas about chomp on a cheeseburger, then had lain awake before sneaking GUTIERREZ/THE P. PLAN PRESS/NEWSCOM health and ﬁ tness. One woman passed around still-steaming, downstairs for a leftover cold fry?

ANA home-baked apple cinnamon mini-muﬃ ns made from “a at’s no way to live in Christ, Montgomery suggested: DANIEL

COUNTY paleo recipe. Sixty-eight calories for one.” She read out the “Maybe we can go to In-N-Out with our family. Instead of ingredients, including coconut oil, coconut, and almond ﬂ our, guiltily reaching for the skinny burnt fries, maybe we can go TEMECULA SADDLEBACK: then anxiously asked, “Is this considered clean eating? ere’s for a few nice, fat ones. Just slow down, breathe, and enjoy the

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24 FOOD.indd 37 11/12/13 9:22 AM ‘As modern culture disengages itself from religion, an obsession of self—how I look, how I feel, how long I live—has ﬁ lled that void. Self is our God now.’

conversation. Enjoy your family, enjoy that fry … everything in “Eat your fruits and vegetables, your grains and lean meats. moderation.” And then don’t worry about it! Go about your life. Eating Montgomery, a blond, taut-limbed personal trainer, told shouldn’t be that big of a deal throughout the day.” me later that she found “ e Daniel Plan” useful for its Lightsey says most of them respond, “ at’s too simple.” resources: books, study guides, and online videos comprised He says, “ eir fears have become a religion … of health and of devotions, meal plans, and workout routines. She initiated fi tness. We’ve basically become obsessed with it. … As modern the group but doesn’t adhere to e Daniel Plan as religiously culture disengages itself from religion, an obsession of self— as her group members do: “Let’s think about what food really how I look, how I feel, how long I live—has fi lled that void. is. Food nourishes you. But it’s not supposed to be your god. Self is our God now.” It’s not something you should focus on, or shop and plan for Absent the faith that God holds dominion over all things, all day, or talk about all the time on Facebook. It’s supposed to the world becomes a scary place: pesticides, genetically modi- be a tool for God’s glory.” fi ed foods, nutrient-depleted soils, corrupt Big Agriculture Physical therapist and nutrition professor David Lightsey companies, crooked government agencies in cahoots with has off ered a similar message over three decades. He’s met dairy and soda industries, chemicals and hydrogenated oils in processed foods, environmental toxins and aller- gens—the list goes on and on. We worry about getting enough, and then we ago- nize over getting too much. How can people feel at peace, when every bite holds incomprehensible and imagined risks? e Bible reminds us that God made many things for our good, and there’s no need to live in fear. Obesity is a real condition with uncomfortable, destructive eff ects, so it needs to be fought: As Lightsey says, “It’s very depressing. But that’s why we need to approach it with ANA P.

the gospel. It brings us to our GUTIERREZ/THE knees.” Many studies have shown that social support groups can help people to adopt ORANGE healthy lifestyles. Church COUNTY EVERYTHING IN MODERATION: small groups are vital to our Participants run in a K during spiritual health, so why not REGISTER/ZUMA e Daniel Plan Fun Walk & Run clients who refuse to eat incorporate discussions on physical stewardship? Most people at Saddleback Church. apples or oranges because already know what to do, and need moral support to follow they have Type O blood, through: at’s e Daniel Plan’s foundation.

others on the Paleo Diet who only eat what their Neanderthal It’s worked for many Daniel Plan participants, including PRESS/NEWSCOM “ancestors” ate, and vegan students who believe “dead fl esh” Warren, with some losing up to  pounds. People have rots in the body and destroys Mother Earth. regained energy and improved blood pressure and cholesterol Each time he hears about such diets, Lightsey fi ghts the levels. But it’s always a fi ne line. Daniel’s health was a great urge to face-palm. “Just go and consume,” he tells clients: testimony of God’s favor. But it never was about the food. A

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24 FOOD.indd 38 11/12/13 9:22 AM Join the campaign to save the world’s most endangered species. ANA P. GUTIERREZ/THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/ZUMA If you’re serious about preserving our most precious

PRESS/NEWSCOM natural resources, get involved with evangelism. After all, if it’s worthwhile to crusade for the environment, how much more so for human souls.

24 FOOD.indd 39 11/12/13 4:23 PM crushed by obamacare: Jeremy Oosterhouse.

24 OBAMACARE.indd 40 11/12/13 8:58 PM Obamacare is crushing the people it needs most—young adults

Name just about any common of college debt are bearing the brunt of is between 6-to-1 and 8-to-1, not the problem with Obamacare and Jeremy the president’s healthcare overhaul. artificial 3-to-1 difference mandated in Oosterhouse has experienced it. The Patient Protection and the law. Cancelled healthcare coverage? Affordable Care Act (ACA) hinges on Early returns indicate young people Check. younger, healthier people enrolling to are avoiding the exchanges: Those who Facing higher premiums? Check. help subsidize more expensive care for managed to sign up in the law’s first Can’t get healthcare.gov to work? older, sicklier Americans. That concept month skewed much older than the Check. may help balance out the risk pool, but desired average age of about 40. The Oosterhouse, a youth pastor in Palos health doesn’t equate to wealth for Wall Street Journal reported that in Heights, Ill., is losing his individual someone like Oosterhouse, who Connecticut and Kentucky—where Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance plan declined his employer-sponsored state-run exchanges helped more than at the end of the year—even though he insurance and purchased an individual 8,000 people sign up in October—the likes it. In lieu of an operational gov- plan to save $700 a month. He and his average enrollee was 55 years old. The ernment healthcare exchange website, wife, Rachel, have always made health Obama administration said it expects the husband and father of two set out insurance a priority, but at a high price: young adults to wait until the last min- on his own to research the available They rarely go on vacations, eat at ute to sign up, but several experts told insurance options. The news wasn’t restaurants, or watch movies in the me if that doesn’t happen, it could good: A plan with similar coverage and theater, and they grow their own vege- result in a death spiral for the law. higher premium takes the family tables to save on groceries. “We turn “If it turns out the people who enroll deductible from $2,500 to $4,500, and down our heat at night,” he said. in insurance are the people who are if he wants a premium close to what “We’ve forgone savings.” already really sick and the people who he’s paying now, the deductible sky- Those measures may not be enough don’t enroll are basically healthy, then rockets to $12,500. to survive financially under the new that’s going to drive up premiums and

“When President Obama said if you rules—which will likely keep Oosterhouse will basically unravel the entire plan,” like your plan you can keep it, I from qualifying for a subsidy because said Daniel Sledge, a health policy believed him,” Oosterhouse told me. he declines his employer-sponsored professor at the University of Texas at It’s no accident that Oosterhouse, insurance option. Arlington. 29, is facing higher premiums: Costs Three big sources of the cost Several young adults I spoke with are going up for most ages, but young increase include new taxes, mandating said they gave up after trying without adults, and especially males, are being unnecessary coverage, and the so- success to use the federal health hit the hardest. In the 43 states where called “community rating,” which exchange, including Melody DuVal, 30, 2014 premiums are rising, a 27-year- prohibits insurance companies from a graphic designer in Goshen, Ind. old faces an average premium increase charging older adults more than three DuVal, who hasn’t had health insur- of 72 percent, compared to a 44 percent times as much as young adults. Joe ance in seven years, said she’s contin- average increase for a 50-year-old, Antos, a health policy analyst at the ued going to the doctor while she’s according to Heritage Foundation data. American Enterprise Institute (AEI), uninsured and is pleased with the That means Americans with modest told me the natural difference in health overall care she has received. She’s had incomes, growing families, and mounds costs between older and younger people two minor surgeries this year and

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24 OBAMACARE.indd 41 11/12/13 9:00 PM negotiated with her providers to cut policy. Blue Cross Blue Shield notifi ed administrative costs for insurance between  and  percent from her him that his policy will be canceled companies (a few states have already medical bills. next year—and he found out his doctor received waivers). Since coordinating DuVal had planned to use a raise will no longer take his insurance—so and managing care is considered an this year to help cover the cost of he’s contemplating the fi ne. “If the administrative cost, he said the law health insurance, but the extra cash penalty is only  a year, I’d have to encourages insurers to cut corners disappeared when the payroll tax consider it,” Mueller said. “I may not where it hurts patients most. increased from . percent to . per- have an option.” Two other possible ideas: lower the cent as part of the fi scal cliff deal in Many people are considering paying coverage requirements and allow the January. She said she could aff ord a the fi ne in , but few will dish out community rating to be -to-—or plan with a  to  monthly pre- only . e law calls for a  penalty whatever the market dictates. mium but estimates she’ll have to pay or  percent of household income, Permitting young adults to sign up for about —even with a subsidy. whichever is greater—meaning the fi ne only catastrophic coverage would “My take-home is a little over becomes  for a household income encourage more participation, and , a month, so  out of that is of ,. e fi nes will sharply allowing appropriate premium dispar- a huge chunk,” DuVal said, noting she increase in  and  (see graphic). ity would shift the burden of cost away can’t stop paying for her car, housing, While Washington is in an uproar from young people with typically lower or school loans, so she may have to fi nd over the unworkable website, viable incomes and toward those with estab- ways to cut down on her grocery bill. ideas to improve the law are scarce. lished careers. “[It’s] frustrating when you’re talking Several health policy experts told me Antos predicted Obama will allow about giving up healthier food so you there is a shortage of long-term, cre- tweaks before the  elections—per- can have mandatory health insurance. ative thinking, because both sides have haps waiving the fi ne for not having Fruits and vegetables are more expen- been gridlocked in the political battle insurance—but major changes may sive than processed cheese and bread.” over the law’s existence. Yet even if have to wait until . He said the next Some analysts have attributed Republicans were to win control of the administration, regardless of which young adults’ low enrollment numbers Senate next year, Obama doesn’t leave party wins the White House, will be forced to deal with the issues. For now, those whom the BEARING THE BRUNT A FINE HOW DO YOU DO law was intended to help, Young people face the highest rate of e fi nes for not purchasing health insurance will such as Melody DuVal, see premium increases under Obamacare. sharply increase in  and . Obamacare doing more harm than good: “It’s not 2014 2015 2016 AGE 27 71.95% helping me, [and] it’s not per per per helping any of my friends.” $ adult $ adult $ adult 95 325 695 e week after I spoke AGE 50 % 43.96 * * * with Jeremy Oosterhouse FAMILY of family of family of family in early November, he OF FOUR 15.53% 1% income 2% income 2.5% income emailed to say he and his wife are seriously consider- *WHICHEVER IS GREATER. THE PENALTY CANNOT BE GREATER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE PREMIUM FOR BRONZE COVERAGE, ESTIMATED TO BE $4,500$5,000 IN 2016. SOURCES: THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ing Medi-Share, one of the three main medical bill- sharing groups that have to the faulty website or youthful opti- offi ce until January , so the law is been growing in a loophole of the mism that they won’t need insurance. likely here to stay. ACA. Oosterhouse said even if he Brian Mueller, , an adjunct music Don Taylor, a public policy professor qualifi ed for a subsidy, he could save professor in Ohio, said the problem is at Duke University, told me at some  per month ( without a sub- having to pay for coverage he doesn’t point Republicans “will say, ‘Gosh, even sidy) for a plan with a deductible that need and can’t aff ord. “I know that I if we’re against the ACA, we’ve got to is , lower than what he can get probably won’t need my health insur- address this.’” Taylor cited, among through the exchange. ance, but I still like to have it,” he said. other things, the provision that allows “As Christians, there is something of “I feel like they’re trying to sell me a -year-olds to stay on their parents’ value to supporting others with medi- luxury car when all I need is a com- plans as something that will likely have cal costs and trusting in God to provide muter car to get me from point A to to change. “In the long term, it doesn’t for our needs,” he said. “ at’s money point B.” make that much sense to call a -year- we can continue to put toward retire- Mueller’s job, which continues on a old a kid,” he said. “ at redefi ned ment, [-year-old daughter] Leah’s per-semester basis, doesn’t include young adults as potential dependents.” future Christian school costs, or even insurance, but it has given him the AEI’s Joe Antos believes a needed allow Rachel to continue staying at fi nancial fl exibility to buy an individual change is the  to  percent cap on home with the kids.” A

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  M L have been they leave for the trip “before they fi lled up the tank.” married  years and have three children, Ministries often don’t have training or resources for families all adopted. Mike, a tall Southerner, facing post-adoptive issues. And parents often feel as if works at the insurer Unum, doing net- they’re bad disciplinarians instead of recognizing that their work security. Jennie, gregarious and child may be dealing with trauma. energetic, used to work in marketing but “Families have got to understand—a child coming from now stays home with their kids. Abbie, hard places has dramatically diff erent development pro- , is a fi re-haired beauty. Hunter, , is cesses,” said Purvis. “Otherwise their behaviors are quite dark-haired and more serious. Sammy, mystifying.” Purvis, a child psychologist at Texas Christian , is blond with glasses and an eff erves- University, is a foster parent herself, and she runs camps for cent personality. ey live in Hixson, parents that Bethany recommends. Purvis’ camps are usually Tenn., in a small house in a suburban swamped with demand. Bethany itself is recognizing the neighborhood and attend Hixson need for these services and is opening a post-adoption center Presbyterian Church. ey have two this fall. dogs, a pet rat, and a king snake named Houdini. Children who didn’t have a consistent caregiver in the e Landreths, both , weren’t able to have children of fi rst few years of life especially develop “survival skills” their own and adopted their three children domestically. because at their most formative stage of life they were hurt ey adopted Abbie at birth, so they thought they would by the people closest to them. ey approach their new adop- Javoid the attachment issues other families sometimes have tive family with distrust and often take out their feelings of with older adopted children. ey were wrong; Abbie was abandonment on the adoptive mother. Screaming episodes violent and had fi ts that went on for hours, tantrums on last for hours. e child rips the house apart, literally. steroids. Jennie points to recent research about trauma that Faasse said traumatized children are easily overstimulated children experience in the womb as an explanation for why and have no internal resources to regulate their emotions, Abbie struggled. Abbie has been diagnosed with reactive which means their fi ts can quickly spiral out of control. attachment disorder, along the lines of post-traumatic stress Traditional parenting doesn’t work, because punishment disorder for children. Before Abbie, Jennie said she and her makes parents the “enemies” to the child’s survival. Some husband had a “Pollyanna view” of adoption. families recounted their experiences to WORLD, not to dis- “All families hear about the challenges, but ... it’s not suade other families from adopting but to point to a light at uncommon for a family to say, ‘Yeah, that won’t happen to the end of the tunnel for those with traumatized adoptive us,’” said Kris Faasse, the director of adoption services at children. Bethany Christian Services. Faasse emphasized that, statisti- When Abbie was , Jennie fi rst noticed that something cally, most adoptions go well. was off . Abbie would be up dozens of times in the night, IMAGES HANDOUT Some parents whose adoptions didn’t go well spoke with screaming. At age , a doctor diagnosed her as probable me and said they had minimal support after they adopted. bipolar. When Abbie was , Jennie said, “We were in living HILL/GETTY PHOTO Churches and ministries are eager to expand adoption and hell.” Abbie was violent as well as verbally abusive to her

foster care, but as child psychologist Karyn Purvis put it, mother. TAYLOR

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24 ADOPTION.indd 44 11/11/13 12:24 PM Not Annie e Musical  -             by EMILY BELZ in Hixson, Tenn.

“I would hit my brothers,” Abbie recounted a few months wouldn’t kill you,” Abbie says now. “I didn’t want to hurt ago, as the whole family lounged together in their living her, but I would just get angry and throw things at her, and room. then I would start crying and say I’m sorry.” “I don’t remember that!” said Sammy. Abbie wrote in her diary, “I hate my mom. I hate my “Like this?” Hunter interjected, punching Sammy in family.” She said she felt as if Jennie and Mike were her the arm. real parents because she had lived with them her whole Every night Sammy and Hunter would try to sleep life, “but I felt diff erent.” Every day Jennie found her- through the battles their parents had with Abbie. self crying in her bedroom closet. Mike said Jennie Abbie slammed the door grew “jaded,” anticipating a battle from the moment DEALING WITH TRAUMA: to her room so many she woke up. Jennie and Abbie Landreth times that Mike For a while Mike thought Jennie was the oneone (above); Purvis (right). took it off its who needed therapy, calling the confl icts “normal hinges. A doctor mother-daughter stuff .” Jennie started recording prescribed Ambien to help Abbie sleep, but she meltdowns with her iPhone, holding it at her side had hallucinations, and after one night her dad so Abbie wouldn’t notice, and Mike agreed that refused to give her any more of it. Family something was wrong. e Landreths put Abbie vacations always ended early. Even when the in a succession of education environments, public family tried to watch a movie together, they and private schools, and took her to therapists, would have to end it in thethe middle because of counselors, and doctors. ey drove a car with a meltdown. Hunter once prayed that Abbie , miles on it as the expenses piled up would go back to her birth mom, making because insurance didn’t cover her treatments. Abbie cry. Jennie worried that Abbie would soon end up “I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it,” Sammy in juvenile detention. said as they talked about it later. “I don’t know if our marriage would have “OK, change the subject, I don’t want to survived and I don’t know if our family would have think about it,” Hunter grumbled. stayed together if we hadn’t gotten help,” said Jennie. Abbie wore a hood everywhere she went, and she Under new parenting tectechniqueshniques the Landreths was so shy she couldn’t speak up to order at a res- learned at a post-adoptive camp last year, Abbie is taurant. Jennie dreaded church events; it took a a diff erent girl. She jokes with her brothers. Mike while to convince fellow church members that Abbie showed me a video on his phone: He’s picking up was more than a diffi cult child (now her church is Jennie around the waist, and then turns her IMAGES supportive fi nancially and emotionally). Jennie said upside down while Jennie laughingly protests. All HANDOUT she looked like “a frazzled mom who was overreact- the kids are cracking up on their parents’ bed. “A ing.” Most of Abbie’s violence was directed at her family moment that was not miserable!” he HILL/GETTY PHOTO mother:mother: She threw a boot at her, and sometimes threw said. Abbie doesn’t wear hoods when she is out

TAYLOR things while Jennie was driving. “Mostly stuﬀ that anymore. She orders her own tuna sandwich,

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24 ADOPTION.indd 45 11/11/13 12:24 PM a different girl: her favorite, at Subway. She showed ot far from the Landreths in Jennie and Abbie and me her room, which her mom deco- Tennessee, Tim and Ellen Stowell, both her pet rat Buttercup in her bedroom. rated as a surprise for her with her 60, are dealing with similar, but more favorite things: pink and zebra extreme, problems. They never had chil- stripes. A One Direction poster hung dren, and over the last few years have on the wall, and she has diaries lined up on her desk. She adopted four children from China and

now has a tutor, which seems to be the best form of educa- Taiwan. The Stowells’ children came to Billy tion for her, and she is working on tap dancing. She still has their family grown, ages 8 to 12. Ellen has worked for Weeks/genesis friction with her mom, but nothing like before. Ndecades in special education, so she did not approach “Still I sometimes complain about doing the dishes,” adoption naively. Abbie said. “I don’t like doing the kitchen, but I’m the best “I never expected one of these kids to come running into

at it, so it’s a curse.” my arms the moment I met them,” she said. handout

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24 ADOPTION.indd 46 11/11/13 12:24 PM SEEKING SOLUTIONS: e Stowells with Yu Hsuan (far left), two of their other children, and two friends, in China.

him the riot act,” she said, to impress on him the signifi cance of his violence. But when the police offi cers came, they didn’t know what to do, and she sent them away. In another one of his summer meltdowns, he said, “Hurt dog, hurt cat,” and Ellen realized it was time for psychological treatment. Children with trauma issues will sometimes try to hurt animals. Yu Hsuan But her training didn’t prepare her stayed at the hospital’s children’s psych ward a couple of for the exhausting battle with her times over the summer and arrived home with more coping youngest, Yu Hsuan. e Stowells skills. Ellen has learned that anytime she tries overtly to help adopted Yu Hsuan at age . He had him, he recoils and gets angry. She has learned that she her- lived with the same foster family in self cannot show anger toward him, which only fuels the fi ts. China for seven years, but Ellen recalls “ ere’s no cookbook for it,” said Ellen. that he “didn’t shed a tear” when she is fall the Stowells as an entire family attended a parental and Tim picked him up. She now sees training camp as the Landreths did. e Landreths sought that as one symptom of trauma. help at a camp run by Nancy omas, an adoptive and foster ree years later, the Stowells are parent who has written about attachment issues. Faasse from still desperately seeking solutions to Bethany declined to recommend omas’ camps ( omas is reach an unreachable boy. Yu Hsuan, not a child psychologist) but did recommend Purvis’ camps, now , hits his mom, which has emphasizing the importance of professional help. Faasse and become more serious as he’s grown Purvis didn’t criticize omas but criticized treatment that is older and stronger. He mumbles or “parent-centered” and “punitive,” instead of “child-centered” whispers so Ellen has to ask many and focused on trauma. times what he’s saying, which she sees While a child can misbehave, they say, the problem is as a tool for control. I visited their usually that parents are treating trauma as bad behavior. home while he was at school, and Ellen omas told me that she agrees completely with Purvis’ showed me his room. He had punched methods, and also agreed that families need professionals to holes in the walls, ripped the blinds off come alongside her parenting advice. Children are all diff er- the window, and slammed his closet ent, and solutions will be diff erent— omas’ training worked door off its hinges. e clearest sign of for the Landreths. But they all agree on the bottom line: trauma from his childhood: He doesn’t sleep in his bed. He Families shouldn’t try to handle troubled children without gathers all the blankets from around the house, covers the professional help. Faasse said families shouldn’t hesitate to bed, and then he climbs underneath the bed to sleep on the contact adoption agencies if something seems off . fl oor. e bed is the only remaining furniture in the room “All too often families call us because they’re desperate,” because he has destroyed everything else. Faasse said. “We’d rather get involved with families earlier Yu Hsuan is obedient at school; in his school photo he is than when they’re exhausted.”

BILLY smiling and wearing an American ﬂ ag shirt. Children with Even if some children require extra care, Jennie said the post-adoption issues can be well-behaved toward people out- Christian call to adoption remains the same. “ ese kids WEEKS/GENESIS side their family. But during this past summer, without the need homes,” she said. “We don’t want to discourage people structure of school, he had meltdowns. At one point Ellen from adopting. But it’s going to discourage them more if we told him if he hit her one more time, she would call the don’t say, ‘ ere’s hope and healing for these kids.’ You can

HANDOUT police; he did and she did. Ellen wanted the police to “read adopt, but get equipped.” A

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24 ADOPTION.indd 47 11/11/13 12:24 PM Game ender A Hollywood franchise in the making falls ﬂ at over its author’s commitment to traditional marriage by MEGAN BASHAM

       winner, that is, that spawns two or early reviews weren’t exactly raves, relief around the L.A. three more winners just like it. they were mostly positive—far more offi ces of Lionsgate and Similar to the behemoth Harry Potter, positive than the critical response the OddLot Entertainment Twilight, and Hunger Games fi r s t Twilight movie received. But there when word came in on franchises, the fantastical story was was one thing those popular wizard/ Nov.  that Ender’s Game, based on a best-selling youth novel vampire/girl-warrior movies didn’t have, the science fi ction fi lm the two produc- and stars a cast of high-demand, and that was an author (Orson Scott Ttion companies had co-fi nanced for up-and-coming actors. e two Card) who also happened to be an out- more than  million, would not be a teenage female leads, Abigail Breslin spoken advocate for traditional marriage. fl op. After taking in  million in its and Hailee Steinfeld, have both been Despite initial fan buzz at the outset of opening weekend and topping the box nominated for Academy Awards. Asa Ender’s production, when gay rights o ffi c e , Ender’s Game looks likely to Butterfi eld, who plays Ender, won rave groups began to drum up controversy recoup its investment. What it doesn’t reviews in  for his turn in Martin in the months leading up to its release, look likely to do is make much money Scorsese’s Hugo. media reports turned decidedly sour. beyond that, and the possibility of a anks to a space-age setting and a e question of whether a boycott sequel seems increasingly unlikely. number of zero-gravity battle school launched by Geeks OUT—a group whose On the surface, Ender had all the sequences, Ender also boasts special- mission is to “raise queer visibility

makings of a winner, the kind of eﬀ ects appeal in spades, and though within the worlds of comics and IMAGES ORTEGA/GETTY RIGHT: • SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT LEFT:

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24 ENDERS GAME.indd 48 11/12/13 9:16 PM HEAVY EDITING: Asa Butterﬁ eld in Ender’s Game (left); director Gavin Hood, actors Asa Game ender Butterﬁ eld, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, and producer Roberto Orci (left to right) at Comic-Con International 2013—Orson Scott Card is noticeably absent.

decried Geeks OUT’s eff orts against the fi lm as “misguided” and “closer to blacklisting” than boycotting. Yet looking at Lionsgate’s marketing eff orts suggests that the bad press—and there was a lot of it—had a constraining eff ect on public interest in the fi lm. gaming,” and promoted by MoveOn.org— Anderson-Minshall, editor-at-large of J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, and has had a direct impact on Ender’s leading gay magazine e Advocate, Suzanne Collins were as out front and ticket sales remains a matter of consid- challenged readers whether they simi- center as the studios could convince erable debate. larly avoided works associated with them to be during the launch of movies Motley Fool stock analyst Steve Roman Polanski, Alec Baldwin, or Mel made from their books, giving inter- Symington dismissed the idea that it Gibson. She fi nished by saying of views, attending conventions, and could have much impact: “For every Ender’s Game, “I’ll be in the theater. walking red carpets. Card, however, person adamantly opposed to seeing I’m going to stand in line, eat bonbons was nearly invisible during the lead-up Ender’s Game because of their distaste and popcorn, and give a thumbs up or to Ender’s release, and the studio and for Card, it seems safe to say there’s down based on what’s on the screen, fi lmmakers have made it clear this was probably another on the other end of not who’s behind the book.” how they wanted it. the spectrum.” And even within the Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar- To start with, they removed Card’s gay community there’s been plenty of winning writer of gay rights biopic Milk, name from the movie’s Facebook page. disagreement over whether a boycott similarly posted on his Facebook page, en the fi lm’s trailer alluded only to was a good idea. “Boycotting a movie made by  LGBT its being based on a “world-wide best- Pointing out the severe backfi re equality folks in an LGBT equality seller” without making any particular LGBT activists experienced when they industry is a waste of our collective mention of the perennially popular

LEFT: SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT • RIGHT: ORTEGA/GETTY IMAGES ORTEGA/GETTY RIGHT: • SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT LEFT: singled out Chick-ﬁ l-A, Diane energy.” Even e New York Times author. Finally, despite being a huge

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24 ENDERS GAME.indd 49 11/12/13 9:16 PM name in the sci-fi world who has attended the event to promote his work Waiting for Uncle Orson before, Card was noticeably absent from a panel at San Diego’s Comic- Media attacks have made ORSON SCOTT CARD Con that included star Harrison understandably wary     Ford, director Gavin Hood, and producer Bob Orci. One Summit Most people know Orson Scott Card as a science fiction writer, Entertainment (Lionsgate’s parent the author of the Hugo- and Nebula-prize winning  novel, company) exec was anonymously Ender’s Game. But in fact Card is something of a polymath. quoted in e Hollywood Reporter He writes historical novels—more than a dozen of them so saying, “I don’t think you take far—based on characters from the Bible. A devout Mormon, he [Card] to any fanboy event.” Another writes liturgical music and dramas. For years he wrote a column said Summit intended to “keep him under the pen name “Uncle Orson” for The Rhinoceros Times, an out of the limelight as much as possible.” alternative newspaper in his hometown of Greensboro, N.C. His Lionsgate even went so far as to columns were cranky, libertarian-leaning, and wickedly funny. issue a statement denouncing But Card is not a visionary artist to homosexual groups like Card’s views and promising to hold Geeks OUT for his stand for traditional marriage. From  until a premiere fundraiser for gay the summer of  Card served on the board of directors for the causes. “Lionsgate is proud to have National Organization for Marriage, a conservative group made up recognized same-sex unions and of Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals. domestic partnerships within its Geeks OUT organized “Skip Ender’s Game” events in eight U.S. cities. Earlier employee benefi ts policies for many this year, the LGBT activist organization AllOut.org protested DC Comics’ hiring years, we obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card of Card to provide the script for a Superman storyline. A Wired editorial and those of the National Organization described Card as a “noted homophobe.” for Marriage.” ey further made it When I met Card nearly five years ago, these controversies were in the clear that not only did Card not have future, and his multitude of fans knew him first as the visionary artist. He was any creative involvement in the fi lm, warm, open, and cordial. What was supposed to be a -minute interview due to a deal made  years before, he turned into a two-hour visit. I asked him why Ender hadn’t yet been made into a would not make any more money on it movie, and he said, “Lots of reasons. We haven’t been able to get the script PAWEL regardless of how it performed. right, and we haven’t been able to find an actor young enough to play Ender [in

Taken together, it’s a very unusual the book he’s five years old] who has the acting ability necessary for the role.” SUPERNAK/EPA/LANDOV way to go about promoting a movie He also explained his disciplined writing process. When he finishes a book, he based on the work of a hugely popular pays trusted readers to give him detailed feedback. “If they stop reading for author, akin to promising Game of any reason, even to go to sleep or go to the bathroom,” Card told me, “I want to rones fans that HBO producers didn’t know where they stopped. I want to know where reading let George R.R. Martin anywhere near the book stops being the most compelling thing their series. It seems quite possible that they’re doing.” OddLot and Lionsgate’s attempts to Card hashas called the attacks against him head off controversy may have actually “savage,” “lying,” and “deceptive”—and served to dampen the enthusiasm of they have made him understandably the very audiences they were seeking to media-shy. Earlier this year, when the attract—Card’s loyal readers and those DC Comics story broke, I emailed him to most likely to stump enthusiastically ask for a follow-up interview. His wife for the fi lm. Kristine was not enthusiastic: “Scott is Twitter and Facebook often drive Kristine was not enthusiastic: “Scott is word-of-mouth fi lm marketing these busy at work on a novel, and is trying days, and mentions of Ender on social not to let all the hoopla distract him. So, media sites leading up to its release for the moment, we’ll have to turn you were unusually low, especially for a down.” movie based on a novel that has been Given the way the at the top of e New York Times media have treated paperback list for the last  weeks. him, I can’t say Perhaps it was because even the studio I blame that made the fi lm sent a message to him. audiences that their story’s creator was someone to be ashamed of not celebrated. A

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24 STREET EVANGELISM.indd 52 11/11/13 12:37 PM M any praise street evangelism, others dislike it. Our reporter watched and spoke with many street evangelists, compared those who discuss with those who rant, and discovered more variety than meets the eye by Sophia Lee in Los Angeles photo by Greg Schneider/Genesis

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24 STREET EVANGELISM.indd 53 11/11/13 12:36 PM    about street evan- use intimate personal relationships and “life witnessing” to gelists. I’m a Christian, a missionary’s kid, demonstrate Christ to close friends and family. But that’s a pastor’s daughter. I attend a church where anathema to Tony Miano, a street preacher and retired Los the conclusion to every sermon emphasizes Angeles police offi cer, who complains that many Christians the need to evangelize. We have end up putting these relationships above their friends’ eternal “Evangelism ” seminars, mass street souls, and “merely make people more comfortable on their evangelism march-outs, mission groups, way to hell.” prayer sessions—anything to save more souls. Miano can usually be found every Wednesday and Saturday So I’m pro-evangelism—and yet, I at the North Hollywood metro station. He sets up his audio cringe when I hear street evangelists blow equipment, begins with a prayer, and introduces himself to horns, interrupt public events, thrust tracts the swarming public. He presents a summary of the gospel, into the hands of passersby, and yell, specifying the Jesus he knows. He reads a passage from the “Repent or go to hell!” In my multiethnic, Bible, preaches, then prays and talks to whoever comes up to church-peppered neighborhood in Los him with questions or comments. Angeles, a walk down to the supermarket He wasn’t always so eloquent and self-assured. e fi rst means running a gauntlet of well-meaning time Miano open-air preached was eight years ago on a beach, evangelists shoving gospel tracts and CDs  miles away from his home. He chose the location knowing into shoppers’ hands. it was far enough away that he wouldn’t meet anybody who What can be wrong with that? I respect would recognize him. He brought with him his wife, his then the sun-withered old man wearing a white -year-old daughter, a bunch of gospel tracts, some dollar fabric band over his hunched shoulder. He bills, and his Bible. struts around holding a big picket sign “I was petrifi ed,” he recalled, chuckling. “I spent an hour probably heavier than he is. e band and trying to muster up the courage to speak.” But his wife the sign urge all readers to repent and turn crashed a Sweet  birthday party and told the teenagers, to Christ—those who can read Korean, that “Some guy is giving away money.” Miano’s fi rst reaction, as he is. He sometimes sits in solemn silence next saw the teens rushing to him, was dread: “Oh no. I actually to a person waiting for the bus. have to do this.” Trying to hide his anxiety, he asked some I respect the packs of middle-aged ladies trivia questions and gave away dollar bills. with tight perms, who on special days (Easter, anksgiving, Christmas) march from block to block, passing out pamphlets that advertise their church events—but, like many others, I hop to the other side of the street and hasten my steps when I spot TALKIN’ IT them in the distance. (Once, a lady literally OVER: Street chased me down and insisted I take a preacher Tony Miano on pamphlet home, even though I protested I Hollywood already have a church. “Just in case,” she Boulevard. said, then added, “And go tell your friends.”) People call Los Angeles many names, most of them tongue-in-cheek, with unmasked condescension: La-La Land, Tinseltown, a city “ miles wide and  inches deep,” a city of commercialized sin and sinful commercialization. I respect sincere communities of Christians in this sinful, superfi cial city who are doing what they believe is God’s ultimate commission: And then he spoke about the gospel for  minutes. “I to be Christ’s “witnesses in Jerusalem, and didn’t say anything profound or eloquent,” Miano said: He

in all Judea and Samaria … to the ends of simply talked about what he knew. When he was done, and GREG the earth.” the kids still stood there staring at him, he tried to shoo them BEACH SCHNEIDER/GENESIS away. “But these kids, they wanted to talk,” he recalled. “ ey

Still, I and many others had questions about what they heard, and some of them wanted HERMOSA wonder if such confrontational street evan- a Bible. I drove home weeping tears of repentance. … I knew

gelism is eﬀ ective. Many Christians prefer then I would spend the rest of my life sharing the gospel on CHAPEL,

“relationship evangelism” now, where people the streets.” HOPE

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24 STREET EVANGELISM.indd 54 11/11/13 12:46 PM But how do you know it works? I asked him. How do you know if this form of evangelism is sustainably e ff e c t i v e ? Miano cannot give specifi c numbers of people he’s reached or brought to the church, because he doesn’t count them. He calls the counting of heads “one of the failures in American evangelicalism.” It GODSPEAK: gets to people’s heads; it becomes “Tony’s story” Steve Sanchez preaching to instead of Christ’s, and blurs the distinction between parade-goers at the God-centered mission versus man-centered action. LA Martin Luther Sometimes he gets hecklers, people who scream King Jr. Parade. rude names at him, who even threaten bodily harm. Sometimes he gets tearful, “pricked heart” people asking for prayers. Other times, he engages polite but disagreeing debaters. Often, the day passes quietly, with people absorbed in their own thoughts and lives. He tells Christians skeptical about street evangelism “Ah, stop it!” But Sanchez had his desired to spend a day watching it in action. So I did, and learned eff ect. e girl’s expression got serious, and about two kinds of street evangelism. she no longer was blithely confi dent about her salvation. at was when he told her One kind was on display at El Camino about Christ dying for her. College, a two-year public community college south of Los Later, thinking Sanchez came off as Angeles. Pastor-evangelist Steve Sanchez had been bringing legalistic, I asked him why he questioned willing congregants with him to the campus for six years—and her about the Ten Commandments, and if this day he also brought his two homeschooled daughters, he doubted her salvation for not practicing ages  and . abstinence. “We are saved by grace,” ey laid out a table spread with gospel tracts, Chik-fi l-A Sanchez explained. “And that’s what we coupons, and Beanie Babies in the heart of the campus, an want to tell her. I’m not here to judge her. intersection where thousands of students pass by each day. It’s But a lot of people with churched back- also a spot shared with Muslim and LGBT grounds don’t have practical application of clubs. “You’ll not fi nd a better platform to the Bible in their lives.” Only through the preach the gospel,” Sanchez said. “We’ve gripping, fearful realization that they are had some vigorous yet respectful debates sinners will they truly grasp God’s grace here.” He’s even had atheist students come and gift of Christ, he said. up to “preach at us, while we preached at A fellow evangelist, Chris Casella, t h e m.” explained more: “Instead of being pious, we On this day, which Sanchez said is typi- want to be real and genuine. e worst cal, a girl with giant gold hoop earrings, thing we can do is judge. We use God’s law neon pink fl ats, and hot pink fi ngernails to appeal to a person’s conscience, ignite it, passed by. Sanchez called out to her and because we inherently have knowledge of invited her to do a fun IQ test, a series of right and wrong. And then we use the Holy silly trick questions that tickled the girl into Spirit to speak to them to sow the seed.” laughter. en the questions started getting e other encounters I witnessed that more serious. “Let me ask you a question,” day with Sanchez were similar. A lot of the Sanchez said, never losing his warm, easy- people who paused to interact with Sanchez going smile: “If you were to die today, do were professing Christians. e conversation you think you’ll go to heaven?” started with laughter and jokes, then turned e girl was indignant. “Yeah I’ll go to serious as they pondered their sins, and heaven. I pray! I go to church!” Sanchez persisted. “But do what it means to be a Christian and live the you think you’re a good person? Let’s go through the Ten Christian life. One said, “ ere’s no such

GREG Commandments together. … ou shalt not covet. Have you? thing as hell. Everybody goes to heaven,” to BEACH ou shalt not bear false witnesses. Have you ever lied?” at which Sanchez reiterated counteracting SCHNEIDER/GENESIS went on until: “Have you ever called out on the Lord’s name Bible verses.

HERMOSA in vain?” It was evangelism not just to non- “Oh my God,” the girl groaned. “ at’s blasphemy,” Sanchez believers, but also to churched people who

CHAPEL, said. “So by your own admission, you’re a lying thief, a blas- seemed to hear the gospel for the ﬁ rst time.

HOPE phemous adulterer … a sinner.” e girl cried, half laughing, Because the conversation always started

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24 STREET EVANGELISM.indd 55 11/11/13 12:46 PM out with silly games and When I asked many Los Angeles–area evangelists about Israel, easy smiles, it didn’t feel they groaned: ey consider him the reason Christian preach- forced or confrontational. ers get a bad rap. Sanchez said he started out Israel says, “It doesn’t matter what people think of me. I’m years ago spouting biblical not going to preach a message that makes people feel good. facts, but then learned to at’s not inspiring. I pray more than other people now, engage people in conversation. because there’s a real good chance that when I leave the house, I may not come back home. at’s how real this is.” He wel- Reuben Israel is comes persecutions, because the apostles were persecuted, another kind of street evangelist. He and says, “Most Christians don’t understand what persecution is more dedicated than the majority of is, compared to what real Christians go through.” people who call themselves Christians. He Miano has another way of defi ning the work of hell-fi re goes out at least two times a week to open- preachers like Israel: “He’s there to infl ame people, to get people air preach, sometimes traveling across the to react in a violent way so he can say he’s been persecuted. It’s country to picket at Gay Pride parades, obvious in their preaching, that they hate the people they’re Mardi Gras festivals, and Rolling Stones preaching to. at kind of preaching is blasphemous.” rock concerts. He self-funds all his travels and supplies. at’s a lot of money and time Most of the evangelists I talked with agree spent on what he believes is the true that street evangelism isn’t for everyone. Chris Casella, for OPEN FORUM: biblical way of evangelism: calling out sin. example, said he doesn’t have the gift for cold-call evangelism, Miano (top); I wasn’t able to see him in person, but preferring intimate one-to-one conversations. e fi rst time street reaction talked with him at length on the phone and he joined Sanchez to evangelize, he relegated himself as a (above); Sanchez watched videos on YouTube. “Jesus Christ tract deliverer. But fi rst, he had to fi ght his shame of Christ, (bottom). spoke more on hell than He did on love, Casella said: “I was afraid somebody at work will see me as a grace, and mercy combined,” Israel told me Jesus freak.” on the phone. He insists that Jesus spoke e fear of that negative, or worse, mocking label to more about repenting, weeping, gnashing Christian evangelists is real. Miano was recently arrested and of teeth, and eternal darkness than He fi ned for “homophobic” open-air preaching in London. Sanchez preached about God’s love. “It’s so sad that has had people fl are up and call him names. I’ve seen street people think that’s the gospel. at’s not. preachers splattered with beer, laughed at, mocked openly. It’s pretty much a lopsided God. e ey are called anything from racist, homophobic issue is: God loves us, but how bigots to looney freaks. And sometimes, of course, much do we love God?” the fault lies with preachers who embody all To show how much he the stereotypes of a condemning , bigoted, loves God, Israel once hell-fi re hater.

stuck a butchered pig’s I saw during my reporting that God MIANO, STREET REACTION: GREG SCHNEIDER/GENESIS PHOTOS • SANCHEZ: HOPE CHAPEL head on a stake at the made us unique for a reason. Casella International Arab wasn’t able to do what Sanchez can Festival in Michigan. on stage, but he was astute in He name-calls sinners, observing people’s thoughts and because “calling people emotions, and he approached them names is biblical.” Jesus privately. He may not be boldly himself, he listed, called cracking jokes, but he was a woman a dog, Herod a passionate and sensitive in fox, the Pharisees devils and his mannerisms, which snakes. So that’s what he did at appeal to more introverted people like himself. San Diego’s Pride Parade with a I was reminded that Jesus, when gathering his  megaphone, and also at other religious fes- disciples, brought together people of many tempers, careers, tivals, armed with signs blaring: “Warning: and backgrounds. Hell Awaits You.” Or “God Will Judge You” Ineff ective evangelism comes when Christians try to force and “Jesus saves from hell.” somebody to accept the gospel with their personality, fervor, In retaliation, some wisecrackers stood or rhetoric—because the gospel is a precious gift, recognized before him with their own signs: “ ese by those God has already graced. e most eff ective way to people will go to hell for annoying you.” evangelize is debatable. e most ineff ective way to evangelize ey also fl ashed plenty of middle fi ngers. is not to evangelize at all, whether by word or deed. A

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School of hard knocks Millennials face In Lifestyle two issues ago we profiled When she looked for a full-time job she Dean Hatch, 84, who is approaching his initially wasn’t worried: “I had this arro- a challenging job seventh decade in the workforce. He gance. … I hadn’t been turned down before.” market—but their >> said people can be happy at work by Soon, though, she was accumulating turn- own resistance following a simple formula: “They should find downs, and applying for jobs she had sworn what they enjoy doing and what they do well. she would never do. OK, maybe they’ll call me to hard work Life is short and they’re only here for a limited back next week, she thought. OK, maybe may not help period of time, so why not make it count they’ll call me back NEXT week. Her situation wherever they are? I would encourage them is not unique. A Georgetown study found just by Andrew Branch to see their life as a life to be used however 7.9 percent of recent college grads—about the God leads.” national unemployment rate—were jobless. Does that apply to people 60 years younger But an Accenture study revealed lower expec- than Hatch? Rebecca Register, now 23, thought tations: 41 percent of the last two years’ she had found what she enjoyed and would do graduates have a job that well: She planned to graduate from North doesn’t require a degree Carolina State University and begin an Air searching: at all. /ap n Force career. Then a thyroid condition forced Looking over job Struggling grads took iha postings at the

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that were about . times their annual income. A family with a , Bursting bubbles income would buy a home worth Housing prices rise, but talk of bubbles may be infl ated between , and ,. e price-to-income ratio peaked in  BY WARREN COLE SMITH at .. e family with a , income was buying a home priced at T   is looking years are speculators who are bidding ,. One reason Greenhaus better. In some places it is up the price of homes on the theory believes we’re not in a bubble: at downright hot. that others will come in after them and ratio today is about ., below the In November, CoreLogic, a bid prices up still more. In Las Vegas, historical average. IRAN: HASAN IRAN: SARBAKHSHIAN/AP LLOYD/THE BURBACH:MICHAEL • OREGONIAN/AP >> fi rm specializing in real estate analysis, for example,  percent of all Supporting Greenhaus is a study by said home prices had reached an September home purchases were cash Yale economist Robert Shiller. He annual growth rate of  percent in purchases, with no mortgages being charts home prices going back to the September. at’s the fastest year-over- recorded. Almost all of these were s and fi nds that “real home year growth rate since . In investors looking to “fl ip” the houses or prices,” prices adjusted for infl ation, Atlanta, Phoenix, and other cities hit put them into rental inventories. are at historical averages. Since the size hard by the housing bust, the rise was So do these troubling trends mean of homes has grown tremendously in even greater. Nevada posted  percent we’re headed for another housing the past  years, the price per square year-over-year growth. bubble? No, says Dan Greenhaus, chief foot of new homes is approaching at’s good news if you’re already a strategist for BTIG. Greenhaus record lows. homeowner, especially if you’ve been acknowledges the speculation. “Clearly Greenhaus does not give the econ- “underwater” and owe more on your there’s been an infl ux of investors,” he omy a clean bill of health. “We’ve got home than it’s worth. But there’s other said. He also acknowledges that hous- employment issues, continuing problems news. e same CoreLogic survey ing prices have stalled a bit in recent in Washington. I’ll grant that we’ve got announcing the strong annual growth months, largely due to rising interest issues to deal with,” he said. But when said September slowed dramatically, to rates. But he says the more important it comes to bubbles, he’s not convinced. . percent. We’ve also seen some evi- measure is price-to-income. “ e only bubble we’re in is a bubble in

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for the rest of his natural life. For You wrote that the Bible calls for two or three “eyewitnesses” for a ccapitalapital your reasons and this, I now no longer off ense, but the purpose of a “witness” in current jurisprudence is to be an support the general use of the death independent line of confi rmation. penalty. ank you for a great article, Recorded confessions, DNA analyses, and fi ngerprint analyses are all wit- sincerely thought-out and well researched. nesses in that sense. Eyewitnesses might be the best kind, but they are —C B, Racine, Wis. not the only kind. —M E. O, Denver, Pa.

I think you are wrong about capital You missed something about Cain. God Here is what I would do to stop the kill- punishment. It should be reserved for Himself tried “no capital punishment.” ing in its tracks: Execute all murderers, cases with much corroborating evi- He put a mark on Cain so that no one rapists, child molesters, abortionists, dence and never taken lightly. But in would kill him. And yet wickedness got etc., immediately—today. Drag them saying that life in prison is worse than worse and worse, with violence fi lling down into the basement of the court- death, you also seem to be appealing to the earth. house and shoot them between the eyes. a greater vengeance in continued pun- —C P, Pine Bluff, Ark. I want an eye-for-an-eye justice—Roy ishment for decades until the person Bean had it right. Give us justice, give dies. is is an odd argument for a A good article makes you think, and them death. Get out of the way, Marvin. position that also presents itself as Marvin Olasky’s articles on the death —D G, Vallecito, Calif. more compassionate. penalty have certainly done that. —B W, Cedar Rapids, Iowa However, I have some concerns with Your essay is very biblical, in the Old his take. He argues that God “provides Testament and Romans  sense. Our We’ve always been in favor of “a life for zero examples of killers receiving death human punishments, if informed by a life” and had never heard a biblical penalties.” Is God required to give us God’s, would institute a combination of argument against it that made us ponder examples of executions being carried patience, giving men time to repent; until now. ank you for challenging us out before we can believe that He discipline, God’s response to wayward to reconsider. ere remains the problem intended death to be the punishment children; and punishment, to make of murderers on parole after as little as for those crimes? men fear eventual judgment. Cain was eight or  years. —D P, Kilauea, Hawaii guilty, but God wanted him to repent —M  N R, Bucklin, Kan. and stop wandering. How good God is. In the technologically advanced, affl u- He is the Father, looking for the prodi- I was very disappointed by your recent ent West we have no justifi cation to gal to come home. article on the death penalty. You ques- take any life, whether a serial killer, a —D G, San Carlos, Calif. tion it as too harsh an infl iction, argue pre-born baby, or someone in a that life imprisonment is worse, and “vegetative” state. We are too quick to ‘Fleeting images’ then conclude that life imprisonment justify ending lives. If this culture of Oct.  Reading this article about porn should be substituted for the death death is to end, we must end it across addiction was like standing at the tomb penalty. is is incoherent. the board. of Lazarus before Jesus arrived. We rec- —J A, Fortuna, Calif. —K H, Columbus, Mich. ognize the stench of death, but as Jesus

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said to Martha, “I am Christians in this country could the resurrection and the life; he who certainly take a lesson from their believes in Me, though he were dead, faithfulness. yet shall he live. … Do you believe —M B G, Kerrville, Texas this?” If we believe in the resurrection, we should see more than the sin; You stated, “Jesus appears in dreams we should believe that God’s super- to Muslims who can meet Him no natural grace releases the prisoners. other way.” We recently had mission- —L W, Waterford, Va. aries who had served in northern Africa testify in our church to the e church of “Richard,” the youth same thing. God is so great! pastor addicted to porn, should —S M, Madison, N.H. follow John Piper’s advice to young women wondering about prospective ‘Eats broken bottles and kills husbands: “If a man can’t control rats with her teeth’ his lust, it’s a deal-breaker.” Our Oct.  Mindy Belz’s splendid column ministers and leaders need to address on Melanie Phillips’ “journey from this issue before we entrust them left to right” reminded me of another with the spiritual lives of our notable Brit, Sir Winston Churchill, families. If there is a problem, they to whom the following quote is often can gracefully be shown the door misattributed: “If you’re not a liberal and pointed toward the nearest when you’re , you have no heart. Christian recovery center. If you’re not a conservative when —E C, Brooklyn Center, Minn. you’re , you have no head.” Many of us have been on that journey. ‘A complete circle’ —A W, Rockford, Tenn. Oct.  ank you for your column on Christians in the Muslim world. ‘Head games’ Truly they are like the early Oct.  I just ﬁ nished the Oct.  Christians who were persecuted. digital edition. ank you for your

24 MAILBAG.indd 72 11/12/13 4:18 PM courage to speak the truth and Health care for avoiding all that political correctness. Marvin Olasky’s column about the scrubbed-up versions of pagan life people of Biblical faith in museums was so good. —E G, Newburgh, Ind.

‘Connect the dots’ Oct.  I appreciated the contrast of the groundswell of anti-human- traffi cking action with the inaction against a primary enabler, pornography. I have encountered the same blind spot in the military’s recent emphasis on combating sexual assault and suicide. I’ve received many earnest and sincere training sessions, but none of the offi cial material ever mentions the eff ect that rampant pornography use has on provoking sexual assault and suicide. —F N, Quantico, Va.

‘Who stands with Syria’s Christians?’ Oct.  I do, in prayer. It is too easy for me to say, perhaps, but I know God is with my brothers and sisters If you are a committed Christian, you do not have to violate your faith in the darkness. by purchasing health insurance from a company that pays for abortions —K S, Beaverton, Ore. and treatments of conditions resulting from other immoral practices. You can live consistently with your beliefs by sharing medical needs ‘Failure to thrive’ directly with fellow believers through Samaritan Ministries’ non-insur- Sept.  When Obamacare began life as HB, I followed the dis- ance approach. This approach even satisfies the individual mandate in closures of the parts that should the recent Federal health care law (United States Code 26, Section 5000A, (d), (2), arouse concern. ere were so (B)). many, and I am depressed when I conclude that the situation of Every month the more than 24,000* households of Samaritan Minis- Mindy Belz’s mother will become the standard for treatment for the tries share over $6 million* in medical needs directly—one household elderly. If personal freedom were a to another. They also pray for one another and send notes of encour- precondition to any legislative agement. The monthly share for a family membership of any size has initiative, we would have never never exceeded $370*. arrived at this sorry state. —N N, Eugene, Ore. For more information call us toll-free at 1-888-268-4377, or visit us online at: www.samaritanministries.org. LETTERS & PHOTOS Follow us on Twitter (@samaritanmin) and Facebook (SamaritanMinistries). Email: [email protected] * As of June 2013 Write: WORLD Mailbag, PO Box , Asheville, NC - Please include full name and address. Letters may be edited to yield brevity and clarity. Biblical faith applied to health care www.samaritanministries.org

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