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cover story 34 Dead seriousness Rethinking the death penalty: The Bible sets a very high bar for capital punishment, and the American legal system today rarely reaches it

features 44 Covering tracks One year after the attack in Benghazi, the Obama adminis- tration is throttling investigations into what happened 46 A long way from Tehran Naghmeh Abedini and her two 52 Fleeting images children face Addiction to porn is keeping daily life in many Christian men from a Idaho without her mature relationship with Christ unjustly imprisoned husband and a marriage relationship dispatches with a woman 5 News 50 An effective One woman’s struggle extinction? 16 Quotables 18 Quick Takes A month of deadly violence by ON THE COVER: photo by Joe Raedle/ Islamic terrorists aims to wipe Newsmakers/getty images; Abedini: KATHERINE JONES/Idaho reviews out Christian communities Statesman/MCT/LANDOV 23 Movies & TV 23 26 Books 28 Q&A 44 30 Music

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MUSEUM He was a clockmaker, designing and fabricating the elephants have souls is full of insight and intrigue.

ART alarm clock that woke him up at  a.m. so he could But it never gets close to citing foundations like get on with his day’s work before leading his family those sustaining Jonathan Fisher’s encyclopedic in devotions between  and  o’clock. He practiced little book. I would still love to see the two of them

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Thursday, Sept.  A time to weep As investigators continued a probe into the shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, family and friends mourned the  lives lost dur- ing the deadliest attack on a military base since . Among the dead: Martin Bodrog, , who served in the Navy for  years, and left behind a wife and three daughters. Bodrog also served nearly  years as a youth Wednesday, Sept.  leader for the Christian group Young Life, and taught Sunday Shop around school to More than , employees of Walgreen Co.—the largest drugstore chain in the -year-olds at nation—will need to shop elsewhere for one notable service: health insurance. Offi cials Immanuel at Walgreen Co. announced they would provide payments to employees to purchase Bible Church in health insurance in a private exchange beginning next year. Sears Holdings Corp. Springfi eld, Va. and Darden Restaurants announced similar plans, and offi cials at Trader Joe’s Co. Neighbor Fred said they would end insurance for part-time employees, but off er the workers  Schwien said he attended a neighbor- to purchase their own plans. A Walgreen spokesman said the move wasn’t related hood Bible study Bodrog helped start directly to President Obama’s healthcare law, but it’s unclear whether the company  years ago: “He was a rock of a man.” will off er larger payments in future years if healthcare costs continue to increase.

Dollars and sense Just say non  e Federal Reserve French lawmakers voted to ban announced it would beauty pageants for children continue its  billion under  and punish adults monthly bond-buying who try to enter children into scheme known as such contests. Proponents of quantitative easing. the bill said the ban would Investors enjoying the protect children against easy money sent the being sexualized by con- stock market soaring. tests that often include During the same week, ini- tight clothes, high heels, tial jobless claims in the and heavy makeup. UnitedUnited States rose by Off ending adults face , to ,. up to two years in prison and a

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Died Presbyterian author, pastor, and theologian Robert Reymond died on Sept.  at age . Reymond wrote more than  books and is best known for his New Systematic eology of the Christian Faith. Reymond taught for more than  years at Covenant  eological Seminary and Knox  eological Seminary. He also pastored several churches, including Hazelwood Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, and Waterloo Presbyterian Church in Waterloo, Ill.

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Friday, Sept.  Parsing the pope Media outlets declared Pope Francis was shifting the Catholic Church from social issues like abortion and homosexuality after the pontiff told a Jesuit magazine: “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the Saturday & Sunday, Sept. - time.” But those hoping for a seismic shift may face disappointment.  e pope affi rmed the Church’s teachings on social issues and emphasized the Nairobi nightmare gospel as a foundation for moral Islamic militants launched a horrifi c attack in a Nairobi mall that lasted four days, teaching. killed at least  people, and ended with the collapse of three fl oors of the upscale shopping center after a fi re broke out. A dozen assailants with the terror group al- Shabaab stormed Westgate Mall on Saturday afternoon, spraying bullets across the Touch and swipe crowded mall and leaving bloodied corpses strewn around a packed food court. Apple Inc. launched sales of its iPhone Witnesses said the militants allowed Muslim bystanders to leave.  e mall is a c and s to blockbuster results, selling popular spot for middle-class Kenyans, foreigners, aid workers, and missionaries.  million new devices in one weekend.  e s includes a fi ngerprint security system designed to Terror in Pakistan lock the phone At least  people died and  suf- unless the owner fered injuries when a pair of suicide swipes his bombers detonated explosive-laden fi ngerprint vests after a Sunday morning wor- across the ship service at All Saints Church in device. northwestern Pakistan. Members of a branch of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, and said more would come unless the United States stops drone attacks

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Found Georgia police found best-selling author and teacher Henry Blackaby, , after he went missing for  hours on Sept. -. Blackaby’s family reported he suff ered a heart attack while driving without a cellphone and became disoriented—authorities tracked his credit card purchases to fi nd him. Blackaby, former president of the Canadian Baptist Conference and author of Experiencing God, underwent quadruple bypass surgery on Sept.  and is expected to make a full recovery.

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Tuesday, Sept.  Here I stand When Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, approached the Senate podium at : p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, he declared: “I intend to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I can no longer stand.” Cruz returned to his seat  hours and  minutes later, making his speech the fourth longest since the Senate began keeping tabs. Cruz’s all-night marathon included a reading from Proverbs and an edited bedtime story for his daughters at home. “When Monday, Sept.  Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare, either,” said Cruz. Brotherhood ban “ ey did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a An Egyptian court banned the Muslim house or with a mouse.” Brotherhood and confi scated its assets EGYPT: DANIEL BEREHULAK/GETTY IMAGES • VICK: SCOTT A. MILLER/AP • CRUZ: BROOKS KRAFT/CORBIS/APIMAGES • PAKISTAN: MUSA FARMAN/EPA/LANDOV • DELAY: CAROLYN KASTER/AP in a continued showdown with the radical group that ruled the country less than three months ago. Egyptian demonstrators successfully demanded the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi—a member of the group—in July. Six weeks later, Egyptian mili- tary dispersed camps of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in clashes that killed hundreds.  e Egyptian military continues to hold Morsi in military detention.

In the doghouse  e owner of a York, Pa., gift shop cancelled an appearance by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, saying he had received thousands of online death threats. Vick served  months in prison for runningrunning an illegal dog-fi ghting ring that included severe ani- mal cruelty.  e quarterback Pakistan quake has admitted his guilt, and A .-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, killing at least , has professed faith in Christ, injuring hundreds, and leaving thousands homeless. Rescue workers struggled but continues to face back- to reach victims in the remote regions of Baluchistan, and doctors said they lash: Organizers cancelled had few medical supplies. But emergency workers negotiating the remote book-signing events ear- terrain faced another obstacle: Militants fi red rockets at helicopters lier this year over similar trying to deliver aid. Militants in the region have battled the Pakistani threats. government for years.

Returning Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, , says he’s coming back to politics after a Texas appeals court overturned his  money laundering conviction. DeLay, whose three-year conviction was stayed pending his appeal, stepped down in  amid accusations that he funneled , to seven candidates in his home state of Texas.  e Republican DeLay is writing a book titled Shut Her Down.

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Saturday & Sunday, Sept. - Tears and cheers e legendary careers of New York Yankees pitchers Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte came to an emo- tional end. Pettitte, , baseball’s all-time leader in postseason wins (), pitched a complete-game fi ve- hitter in his fi nal appearance. Rivera, , considered the greatest relief pitcher ever, fi nished with  career saves—easily baseball’s best. Rivera and Pettitte, both Christians, broke into the majors in  and led the Yankees to fi ve Friday, Sept.  World Series titles. State’s fi ghts

A New Jersey judge ruled the state must allow same-sex couples to NEW JERSEY: JULIO CORTEZ/AP • PETTITTE: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP • NIGERIA: ASSOCIATED PRESS marry, saying the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act in June guaranteed a right to same-sex marriage. Last year, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill by the state’s legislature aimed at legalizing gay marriage. e governor’s offi ce said he would appeal the decision to the New Jersey Supreme Court, and likely would seek a stay preventing same-sex marriages from beginning on Oct. . CLIMATE CHANGE: JULIEN BEHAL/PA/AP • ACUFF: HANDOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: JULIEN BEHAL/PA/AP • ACUFF: HANDOUT Fault-fi nding mission e UN Intergovernmental Panel on Weekend woes Climate Change reported it is “extremely In another violent weekend overseas, militants from CARVER: CHARLES SYKES/INVISION/AP • KAREY: CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SHERIFF’S PARISH CALCASIEU KAREY: • SYKES/INVISION/AP CHARLES CARVER: likely” humans have caused most of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram shot dead c global warming since the mid-th cen- at least  college students sleeping in a dormitory in tury. e scientists authoring the report northeast Nigeria. Militants attacked the College of claimed  percent certainty that humans, Agriculture in the early morning hours. e terror- rather than natural variations, cause the earth’s ist organization has killed thousands of victims— rise in temperature. Not all scientists agree: e Nongovernmental including students and Christians—across Nigeria. International Panel on Climate Change recently reported humanity’s e group’s name translates to: “Western education

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Resigned Popular author and blogger Jon Acuff abruptly resigned from his position with fi nancial expert Dave Ramsey on Sept. . Acuff did not give a reason for his departure, but said on Facebook that it was not related to a moral failure, compensation, or another opportunity. He said his popular blog will return, but he did not give a timetable. Ramsey posted a short message on his website saying Acuff ’s resignation “takes us as much by surprise as it does you.”

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21 NEWS 3.indd 12 10/2/13 9:50 AM Oct. 13 How might someone mark Clergy Appreciation Day? Lifeway, the Christian retailer, suggests parishioners make kitschy greeting cards, custom Deborah bookmarks, or even buy full Bible Lielasus tries commentary sets for their pas- to sign up, but the website tors. e day set aside to honor stopped pastors arrives during Clergy working Appreciation Month (October).

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Obamacare Oct. 15 After a two- year run in Atlanta, the begins LOOKING Gospel Music Association’s Dove As some parts of the federal Awards returns to government shut down, a new AHEAD Nashville tonight. chapter began: e U.S. govern- Amy Grant and Kirk ment launched the new insurance Franklin will host marketplaces at the center of festivities while the President Obama’s healthcare Gaither Vocal Band, legislation. Soon after the launch, Michael W. Smith, Tamela Mann, and marketplace websites began dis- others are set to playing error messages in at least perform. e broad-  out of the  states where the cast of the awards show federal government is overseeing won’t take place until the exchanges. Government offi - Oct.  on the UP cials had acknowledged technical network. glitches would slow parts of the system from the beginning. A Oct. 16 Newark, N.J., Mayor Corey Booker is a heavy favorite to replace deceased Sen. Kaiser Family Foundation survey Frank Lautenberg in a special election today. Australia’s iconic Sydney

NEW JERSEY: JULIO CORTEZ/AP • PETTITTE: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP • NIGERIA: ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct. 20 found only  percent of respon- Booker’s Republican opponent, Steve dents knew Oct.  was the fi rst Opera House will ring in its th Lonegan, has raised only a fraction of the cash anniversary with guided tours of the day they could begin signing up Booker has in the deep-blue state. And performance hall all October. Its for Obamacare. e federal gov- though Lonegan trimmed Booker’s massive survival uncertain only fi ve years ago, ernment had allotted  million lead in polls in September, most consider the the Opera House has undertaken costly for publicity, marketing, and Republican as the longest of long shots. repairs, and patrons who arrive for the advertising. offi cial th anniversary celebrations on Oct.  can expect many more CLIMATE CHANGE: JULIEN BEHAL/PA/AP • ACUFF: HANDOUT Oct. 23 Baseball’s years of performances in the Southern th World Series Hemisphere’s most iconic venue. begins today in an    American League city. . Joe Buck will cover the Keep up to date on the debate play-by-play for the CARVER: CHARLES SYKES/INVISION/AP • KAREY: CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SHERIFF’S PARISH CALCASIEU KAREY: • SYKES/INVISION/AP CHARLES CARVER: c Fox network while Tim over the government’s debt McCarver handles the ceiling, the fallout from worldwide color commentary. e attacks on Christians, and the championship series new fall movie and television will be McCarver’s season. Also read the latest from farewell from baseball Mindy Belz, Janie Cheaney, Marvin after  years in the game, including  as a Olasky, and Andrée Seu Peterson. broadcaster. McCarver, , will retire from

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Charged A deacon with no previous arrest record allegedly shot and killed his former pastor on Sept.  while Ronald J. Harris Sr. led a service with about  congregants, including his wife. Woodrow Karey, who shot Harris twice with a shotgun, fl ed the scene but soon turned himself in. Police arrested him on a second-degree murder charge with bond set at  million. Authorities are looking for a motive for the crime, since Karey had shown no animosity when he left the south Louisiana church four years ago.

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21 QUOTABLES.indd 17 CREDIT 10/1/13 3:00PM Dispatches > Quick Takes New force A long time ago a pair of scientists had a dream that seemed far, far away. But now, researchers at Harvard and MIT say they’ve channeled the power of photonic molecules to create a lightsaber like the one Ploy disabled portrayed in Star Wars. Physics professors Mikhail Lukin of Harvard Due to the widespread use of “disabled tour guides” and Vladan Vuleti of MIT say the photonic molecules they discovered, who allowed patrons to skip long lines, Disneyland and when projected, emit a tangible beam of light. Besides having the look Disney World announced they would change their and feel of the iconic Jedi weapon, the researchers say that discovery of handicapped policy beginning Oct. 9. According to photonic molecules could lead to real advancements in computing. Disney officials, able-bodied groups would often hire a disabled person to act as a tour guide through the theme parks. The presence of a disabled person in the party would allow patrons to zoom to the front of every line at will. Now, under the new rules, parties with a disabled member will be able to register for scheduled times and wait in a short line for each ride in a system that will mirror Disney’s current “FastPass” system. Disney: Raoux/fast John pass • lightsabe

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21 QUICK TAKES.indd 18 10/1/13 4:28 PM   With two outs and runners on two bases, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim seemed poised for a third-inning rally. at is, until the swarm of bees stopped play. During a Sept.  game between the Angels and the Seattle Mariners, it was the bees that made the most impact, swarming right fi eld of Angel Stadium and causing a -minute delay. It took the groundskeeping crew that long to disperse the swarm with a fi re extinguisher before play resumed.

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Opponents of capital punishment also cited the th Amendment as they Death reads argued that courts were denying capi- e best among a mountain of books about capital tal defendants due process and equal protection. BY MARVIN OLASKY punishment Some honorable mentions: Dale Recinella, e Biblical Truth about T  and thirty-eight. the other side: For Capital Punishment, America’s Death Penalty (Northeastern  at’s the number of books on Oui à la Peine de Mort. University Press, ), is well-written, capital punishment I counted in After reading many books on the but he cherry-picks verses from the >> two areas of the main library of subject, my nomination for the best Talmud with the goal of saying Judaism  e University of Texas at Austin (Library brief, overall one—tightly written and at the time of Christ and during the sev- of Congress catalog numbers HV thoughtful—is David Oshinsky’s well- eral centuries thereafter was opposed and KF). researched, well-written Capital to capital punishment. Don Reid’s Have Among the evocative titles: Death in Punishment on Trial (University Press of a Seat, Please (Texas Review Press, the Balance, Hanging in the Balance, An Kansas, ). It’s full of interesting ) notes that “life sentences” in Eye for an Eye?, e Last Face You’ll Ever tidbits, such as: “More than one in ten Texas once meant freedom in no more of the executions carried than  years. Relatively easy parole out in the United States went along with more executions. in the past three decades Alex Kozinski’s Debating the Death [came after] the defendant Penalty (Oxford University Press, opposed third-party ) is a judge’s analysis of both law intervention and waived and personal torments. Kozinski self- all post- conviction critically writes, “I’d never want to a p p e a l s.” witness an execution. Yet I sometimes Oshinsky describes wonder whether those of us who make how Supreme Court life-and-death decisions on a regular justices, depending on basis should not be required to watch their presuppositions, as the machinery of death grinds up a sympathized with human being.” diff erent actors in capital  e list of death penalty books punishment tragedies. grows year by year. Useful scholarly Harry Blackmun, who books on the subject published in  had little sympathy for include Alfred Heilbrun Jr.’s e Case unborn children in his for Capital Punishment (Rowman and Roe v. Wade decision, felt Littlefi eld) and Robert M. Bohm’s See, Congregation of the Condemned, In sorry for a man on death row for  Capital Punishment’s Collateral Damage the Image of God, Last Meal, A Kiss of years and then given the fatal chemical (Carolina Academic Press). Supporters Death, e Death Game, Who Owns injection. Antonin Scalia wrote about of capital punishment speak of provid- Death?, Death Defying, Rites of a person suddenly bleeding out on the ing just retribution, deterring other Execution, e Hangman’s Knot, Among fl oor of a tavern with no opportunity murders, easing the pain of those who the Lowest of the Dead, Death in the to prepare for death, or a -year-old loved the victim, and honoring God’s Dark, Justice in the Shadow of Death, raped and killed with her clothing stuck image in man. Opponents speak about Final Exposure, No Winners Here Tonight, in her mouth. unjust and unreliable penalties, a lack e Fairer Death, Bloodsworth, and e Runner-up for most useful book is of deterrence—and honoring God’s Rope, the Chair, and the Needle. David Garland’s Peculiar Institution: image in man. A Some books have double-edged America’s Death Penalty in an Age of —For more on capital punishment, names: Executing Justice, Just Revenge, Abolition (Harvard University Press, see p.  and p.  Killing Time, Dead Wrong. Many were ), which describes how Supreme clearly opposed to capital punishment: Court justices favoring abolition argued

Wounds at Do Not Bind, Don’t Kill in that “evolving standards of decency” PAT

Our Names, Death Is Diff erent, Capital made the death penalty a cruel and SULLIVAN/AP Revenge, Beyond Repair, Society’s Final unusual punishment, although that’s Solution, Legal Homicide, Cruel and clearly not what those who approved

Unusual, Choosing Mercy. A few were on the Eighth Amendment thought of it. HANDOUT

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21 BOOKS.indd 26 10/1/13 11:39 AM NOTABLE BOOKS SPOTLIGHT Four recent Christian books > reviewed by  

e Pastor’s Family Brian and Cara Croft Gillian Marchenko’s Sun Shine Pastoral ministry can be a uniquely diffi cult calling not only for a Down (T.S. Poetry Press, ) is a man, but for his wife and children as well.  e greatest challenge moving account of the birth of her the pastor faces may well be his internal desires for approval, third daughter, Polina appearance, and success. Once he places these expectations (Polly). Marchenko and her husband had been upon himself, they will inevitably come to control him and domi- missionaries in nate his decision-making so he may neglect his family in favor of Ukraine for more than ministry. In e Pastor’s Family, Brian and Cara Croft call a pastor three years. After a to the task of shepherding his family through the challenges of routine prenatal exam pastoral ministry, for if the pastor is not fi rst the shepherd of his three weeks before own family, he is unfi t ttoo shepherd God’s people.  is is a book for her due date, her a pastor and his wife to read together, with much prayer and with Ukrainian doctor sent Marchenko many open discussions. to thethe hospital. Giving birth prema- turely in Ukraine and then discov- Jesus on Every Page David Murray ering the baby had Down syndrome was a terrible shock. Jesus is on every page of the Bible. Every book, every story, every Marchenko describes in riveting law, every type, fi gure, and shadow, somehow points to Him. detail her experience in the hospi- Puritan Reformed  eological Seminary professor David Murray tal and the coldness with which the has a passion for fi nding and celebrating Jesus Christ on every Ukrainian doctors greeted her page of the Bible, and especially every page of the Old Testament. daughter. She describes her In Jesus on Every Page, a book written at a popular level and far depression after Polly’s birth and removed from the halls of academia, he shows how and where her own diffi culty in loving her child. Jesus is present in the Old Testament and calls the reader to fi nd Beautifully written, this memoir is Him and worship Him there.  is is a book for parents, teachers, hopeful without being glib. and preachers alike—an entry-level guide to the presence of the Rich in Years: Finding Peace Savior in the Old Testament Scriptures. and Purpose in a Long Life by Johann Christoph Arnold ( e Plough Publishing House, ) Finally Free Heath Lambert off ers homespun advice to seniors. Pornography, a modern-day plague both within the church and Arnold makes a countercultural call outside, may well represent the greatest pastoral challenge in the to live for others, practice forgive- church today. Heath Lambert, a Louisville pastor and professor of ness, and live—even as we grow biblical counseling, has seen this monster close-up and has been frail—in the hope of eternity. He able to lead hundreds of people through and past their commitment says that those who “have or addiction to pornography. He approaches this ugly topic with reached old age can be a source of care and dignity and, best of all, with the power of God’s Word. He wisdom, hope, and inspiration for off ers hope through eight clear strategies memeantant to “help you others.” —Susan Olasky work out your salvation and experience freedom from your desire for pornography.”  is book is practical, biblical, forceful, and encouraging—a powerful combination. It is an ideal place to begin whether you are struggling or whether you know someone who is.

Grounded in the Faith Kenneth Erisman Catechizing has fallen out of favor in most Christian traditions— and the church is the worse for it. Just a few years ago J.I. Packer off ered this challenge: “Where wise catechesis has fl ourished, the church has fl ourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has fl oundered.” Kenneth Erisman’s Grounded in the Faith is a new tool for catechesis, that is, for laying a consistent, systematic groundwork for the Christian life. In three levels and  chapters,

PAT Erisman advances from elementary doctrines of the Christian

SULLIVAN/AP faith, such as justifi cation and sanctifi cation, to level two (the inspiration of Scripture, prayer, the Trinity), and fi nally to level three (perseverance and assurance, the attributes of God). It will

HANDOUT prove an ideal tool for training, for growth, and for discipleship.

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21 BOOKS.indd 27 10/1/13 9:31 AM Reviews > Q A Cowboy logic e joy of singing in church at age  led MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY to success in multiple musical genres BY WARREN COLE SMITH    

M M M had his of that.  at expe- fi rst hit song in the s, when  e rience left a man- Monkees took his “What Am I Doin’ sized bootprint >> Hangin’ Round” to the top of the pop on my brain that charts.  e singer-songwriter had hits in never left me: I the s with “Wildfi re” and “Carolina in was going to be a the Pines.” He then crossed over to the musician and an artist. country charts and had more than a dozen  at realization happened to Top  singles and albums there in the me at church. Churches should s. For the past  years, he has work harder to encourage recorded mostly cowboy and bluegrass artists like I was inspired music, to both critical and popular acclaim. when I was  His  album Cowboy Songs sold a mil- years old. lion copies, and his  album Buckaroo Blue Grass got a Grammy nomination. At age , Murphey ststillill performs more than  shows a year, often with his son Ryan, a fi rst-rate guitar player and the producer of Murphey’s latest albums, including Red River Drifter, which came out this August and jumped onto the Billboard bluegrass chart. You started perform- ing about  years ago. I went to church from a young age and was blessed with a congrega- tion that would let a -year- old stand up on a podium and sing “Zacchaeus was a wee little man.”  at -year- old got applause and joy out

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21 Q&A.indd 28 9/30/13 2:27 PM Tell us about your personal spiritual cism that you can imagine. When I was in in life. Sing about positive things that journey. e most important moments in college, I encountered a lot of people who encourage kids to do good things.” my life were when my parents gave me a tried to tear down the Christian faith and at’s not too diff erent from Jesus’ sense of studying the Bible, reading the make fun of anybody who’s involved in it, but admonition not to do anything to lead Bible, and understanding the Bible. I was I was also introduced to the work of C.S. children astray. It sounds simple, even about  years old when I walked down the Lewis and of Tolkien and other Christian simplistic, but try it sometime. Try waking aisle and gave my life to Christ. I felt a wriwriters.ters. I thank the Lord for C.S. Lewis. I was up in the morning and saying, “Today I palpable sense of change in who I was a young intellectual who was questioning won’t do anything that would infl uence a even as a child. whether or not I should be a Christian and kid the wrong way.” e church was an early infl uence he gave me encouragement. WhaWhatt was the other piece of on your music, too. I grew up in Texas You were one of the advice? Get yourself a good- and my earliest infl uences were gospel originators of the out- looking horse. Because when music. You know, the lady with the stacked, law country you get old and ugly, the kids sprayed hair playing the Baptist piano. I movement in will still come to see the grew up with that kind of gospel music, Austin, with horse. which hahadd a piano player and an organist, its country- What turned you and Stamps-Baxter kind of Southern gos- rock toward bluegrass? I sat down pel music. at’s what I heard when I was a and did some research and kid. I also listened to a lot of honky-tonk found over  bands had recorded music. We basically listened to the my songs, and it surprised me to discover honky-tonks and the angels. that lots of them were straight bluegrass Have you been follow- feel, back bands. I said, maybe that’s a good idea. I ing Christ your in the late ’s and early had already done a bunch of cowboy songs entire life? ’s. How did you get from by then, so we called the fi rst bluegrass there to the bluegrass and cow- album Buckaroo Blue Grass. It was a boy music you play today? My main cowboy’s take on bluegrass music. focus in life has pretty much always And that album got a Grammy nom- been songwriting. I was in Austin, ination. I got my fi rst Grammy nomination Texas, in  and released for that album. I had gone through all the Geronimo’s Cadillac. at’s around fanciest producers you can name. But none the same time Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff of them got me a Grammy nomination until Walker, and Waylon Jennings moved to my son Ryan made Buckaroo Blue Grass. town or wewerere hanging around town. e I’m pretty proud of that, and proud of him whole Austin music thing just took off like for that. a rocket. But I went to Colorado when the What is it about the cowboy music carpetbaggers started showing up, and I you’re doing now that captures people’s lived on top of a mountain and just did my imaginations? It’s the simple, direct own thing. I’ve always been a rancher by honesty of it that cuts through the intellec- nature, so I have a ranch. tualizing of life. It’s like it says in my song at led you into cowboy music? “Cowboy Logic”: “If it’s a job, do it. Put your In  I started making cowboy music back into it, ’cause a little bit of dirt’s going because that’s who I am. at’s what I to wash off in the rain. If it’s a horse, ride it. do. Put me on a horse in the Rocky If it hurts, hide it. Dust yoyourselfurself off and get Mountains or somewhere riding back on again.” We need to hear that across an open prairie in the Midwest, today. Sometimes you need to get rid of and I’m a happy camper. So I write music the Dr. Phil tapes and the Oprah stuff and about that. just get back to work. Roy Rogers, one of the movies’ What do you think of the entertain- sinsingingging cowboys, had a big infl uence ment culture generally? Increasingly on you. When I started singing cowboy toxic. It tears down society, like we saw with I’ve music, he was still alive. So I went out to the recent Miley Cyrus situation, which gone California and asked him for advice. He didn’t surprise me at all. ough I don’t want through all the question- gave me two pieces of advice. First, he to denigrate Miss Cyrus in any way as a ing, all the dark moments said, “If you’re going to be a singing cow- human being. She’s simply susceptible to of disbelief, all the cyni- boy, never lead a child down the wrong trail the things that we’re all susceptible to. A

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traceable to an Afro-American presence as old as our country itself.” Of course. But what brought about this “Afro-American” presence in America, thus making inevitable the generative friction between African and European musics?  e Atlantic slave trade. Except perhaps for the Nazi Holocaust, nothing inspires odium like the travails experienced by African slaves sold by their countrymen to the White Man, crammed into ships, sundered from Duke Ellington their families, and transplanted onto a continent where they were lucky to be treated like beasts. Given the opportu- nity to wave a wand and undo an epi- sode in Western history, many people would make the slave trade Priority Number One. And there’d be Christians among them. It was, after all, the evangelical e roots of jazz William Wilberforce who instigated e music is beautiful even though its true origins are slavery’s abolition by spearheading decidedly not BY ARSENIO ORTEZA England’s Slave Trade Act of . But erase that trade, and the music of Montgomery, Gillespie, Tatum, I  S T  of and Gerry Mulligan (Mulligan Meets Monk, Ellington, and their many peers the HBO set-in-New Orleans Monk), and Cannonball Adderley with and legatees would never have existed. series Treme, the local-music Milt Jackson ( ings Are Getting Better). And the refrain in Wallace Stevens’ >> entrepreneur Davis McAlary And the Pablo titles—Zoot Sims’ poem “Gubbinal”—“ e world is ugly, (expertly played by Steve Zahn) is lead- bridge-building Zoot Sims and the and the people are sad”—would be ing tourists through neighborhoods of Gershwin Brothers, Oscar Peterson’s truer now than ever. musically historical interest, dispensing and Stéphane Grappelli’s virtuosic live  e theological term for this kind of occasionally questionable information. Skol, Art Tatum’s breathtaking iceberg paradox, coined by Augustine in refer- “Between  and ,” he says, tip Solo Masterpieces Volume One, Duke ence to original sin, is felix culpa, or “Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden basically Ellington’s magisterial e Ellington “happy fault.” “For God judged it better,” i nve n te d j a z z .” Suites, and Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, Augustine wrote in his Enchiridion, “to “Before Jelly Roll Morton or after?” Ray Brown, and Mickey Roker’s vertigi- bring good out of evil than not to permit chuckles a tourist, mocking McAlary’s nously delightful Dizzy’s Big —are no any evil to exist.” simplemindedness in ascribing to one less impressive. “Does this mean,” one might ask, man credit for jazz’s mongrel origins. Pianists, trumpeters, saxophonists, paraphrasing Paul, “that we should But, in the wake of Concord Records’ vibraphonists, violinists, guitarists, black enslave our fellow man so that great recent reissuing of fi ve bonus-tracks- and white, disciplined and louche, each music may abound?” enhanced albums apiece from the committed to helping American music Heaven forbid. GJON Riverside and Pablo Records vaults mean a thing by making it swing—what Still, the artistic riches on display MILI/TIME (commemorating the labels’ th and begat the spirit that animated and throughout the Riverside and Pablo reis-

th anniversaries respectively), the united them? sues point to ways and thoughts higher & LIFE question “Who invented jazz?” is  e answer is simple, even obvious. than our own—ways and thoughts, PICTURES/GETTY worth considering. But it implies ironies complex enough incidentally, that should also be familiar  e Riverside reissues comprise to give migraines to anyone lacking to jazz fans. Or at least those who’ve highlights by Chet Baker (Plays the Best faith in Divine Providence. ever seriously pondered the title of the of Lerner & Loewe), Wes Montgomery “Spirituals, soul, rhythm-and-blues, free-jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders’ IMAGES (So Much Guitar!), the Bill Evans Trio rock, and jazz,” wrote Len Lyons in e greatest and best-known composition:

(How My Heart Sings!),  elonius Monk  Best Jazz Albums, “are all directly “ e Creator Has a Master Plan.” A RECORDS ECM JOHNROGERS QUARTET: JOHN • ABERCROMBIE HANDOUT CAMPBELL:

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21 MUSIC.indd 30 10/1/13 11:00 PM NOTABLE CDs SPOTLIGHT New or recent jazz releases > reviewed by   Beginning with e Jazz Singer, Baida Ralph Alessi, Jason Moran, Drew Gress, Hollywood’s fi rst “talkie,” fi lm and Nasheet Waits jazz have had a long and symbiotic Even if Alessi weren’t the director of the School for relationship. And to Improvisatory Music, it would be nice to know which make sure no one came fi rst, the titles or the music, where these  forgets, Moon intriguing compositions of his are concerned. Nothing Cycle in “Chuck Barris,” for instance, suggests e G o n g Records has Show or “Palisades Park.” So is it Barris’ unsubstan- reissued tiated claim that he was a CIA assassin we’re sup- Movie Songs posed to associate with Alessi’s fl uttery fl ights of Project, the Miles Davis fancy? If so, “Sanity” is a tonic. And the  album of agile “ rowing Like a Girl” pure red herring. fi lm themes per- Live at the Sahara: Las Vegas, 1964 formed by the Royce Campbell Trio and Phil Woods. With Tony Bennett Campbell a Henry Mancini alumnus Previously only available as one th of e and Woods an accomplished sax Complete Collection, this Sin City show fi nds the man, the musicianship is as high as then--year-old “Latin from Manhattan” at the top it is smooth, the melodies as indel- of his game, delivering  songs, give or take a ible as Johnny Mandel’s “ e reprise, to high rollers blissfully oblivious to the four mop-topped Brits who’d begun sucking the air out of Shadow of Your Smile,” Nino Rota’s the pop-music room just a few months earlier. So “ eme from Amarcord,” and why does the cover list  cuts? Because one is six Mancini’s “Baby Elephant Walk.” minutes of Milton Berle, Danny  omas, and Mickey Rooney providing ace comic relief. A more innovative approach to the Subatomic Particle Homesick intersection of celluloid and syn- Blues Ben Goldberg copation is the John Abercrombie Recorded in , this ambitious project for clari- Quartet’s  Steps (ECM).  e net (Goldberg), sax (Joshua Redman), trumpet (Ron song titles notwithstanding (four Miles), and rhythm sections (Devin Hoff s, Scott paying homage to Hitchcock, one Amendola, and Ches Smith) still sounds ahead of its to the actor Sydney Greenstreet), time.  e winds and woodwinds writhe and inter- the cinematic connections serve twine with more method than madness, but enough as starting points for an elegantly of the latter comes through to make the occasional moody exploration rather than as percussion outburst seem of a piece—and to justify ends in themselves.  ere are, in the album title’s Dylan allusion, although the only other words, no fi lm themes Dylan cover is an ecstatic rendition of a song Dylan revisited—unless by “themes” one himself covered at the outset of Saved. means suggestively inchoate meanings. Walking Shadows Joshua Redman GJON “[H]e allows the hidden blues in the tune to come out MILI/TIME and haunt him as he explores each nuance with minimal accompaniment,” wrote Allmusic.com’s  om Jurek of &

LIFE a performance from the fi rst album on which Redman

PICTURES/GETTY received prominent billing. But the saxophonist being described was Joshua’s father Dewey. Now,  years later, Jurek’s words could apply to every sosongng on this gorgeous recording except that an orchestra IMAGES is hardly “minimal accompaniment.” “Let It Be” feels

CAMPBELL: HANDOUT • JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET: JOHNROGERS ECM RECORDS RECORDS ECM JOHNROGERS QUARTET: JOHN • ABERCROMBIE HANDOUT CAMPBELL: like a ringer, Bach’s “Adagio” less so, the rest not at all.

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is  tasktask here here to to is is bring bring out out how how the the prisoners prisoners see see their their lives lives and and how how the the Bible Bible sees sees them. them. (Also,(Also,hundreds of books deal with such topics, and Irecommend some on p. .)My arbitrariness, was eligible for parole last year. Robert Dawson posted aplea for Texans to voice Jack Vian Jr., sentenced to in prison, life in capital of the United States, executing of the , persons executed nationwide States generally and Texas specifi to Abolish the Death Penalty, says everyone should escape. article life.

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PROTEST: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP • MENDEZ: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE Now he lives in a cellblock with three tiers and  again. Same metal bench, same cell. … BARBARIC?: A protest against cells in each tier,  people in a world of metal and Everyone’s out for himself. … Guys the execution of Kimberly McCarthy outside the Huntsville concrete. Each cellblock has a day room, where fi ght over ramen noodles or a piece of Unit, where the death chamber inmates spend much of their time sitting and cheese. … You got to show that no one’s is located, in Huntsville, Texas. watching one of two televisions (one usually show- gonna take something from you. … If ing sports, the other movies). It’s one of the many you don’t say anything, it’s not a piece cellblocks that make up Ferguson Unit, which of cheese next time. It’s guys playing gay games.” houses some , A good day for Mendez is “when I can work in the inmates, about  fi elds.  at’s the only time I get to taste, smell, see percent in for murder the outside—and when it’s  degrees you get three but three-fourths for water breaks.” A good day is also “when I can watch burglary or robbery. Law and Order.  ey all want to watch Jerry Separated by a glass Springer.” Mendez got in trouble in July for cussing screen, we faced each at a guard and had, he says, a good week in solitary: other in a hot visiting “No mattress, two sheets, lying on the fl oor, they room with still air and bring meals to you.  ey gave me two pens,  fl ies circling around us. sheets of paper, and  envelopes.”

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C TO O :, “I have no pleasure the in death of the wicked, punishment formal Bible, the the in Repeatedly had. death when compared to the life Adam could have others point to the exile from Eden alternative an as physically, some interpret the death spiritual, as but for relates, King Ahab coveted Naboth’s vineyard so leads to unjust an result. As chapter of Kings cussions, including at least three dead sons. lived with the shame of that and many family reper- derness. David conspired to kill Uriah the Hittite and murdered Egyptian an and spent years the in wil- and lived on, but under their father’s curse. Moses exile. Simeon and Levi killed the all males of acity Abel, but God instead gave alife sentence him of death penalties. Cain yet He provides zero examples of killers receiving but that the wicked turn from way his and live.” :, “I have no pleasure the in death of the wicked, excommunication—and God declares Ezekiel in of death gives way to the actual punishment of had. death when compared to the life Adam could have others point to the exile from Eden alternative an as physically, some interpret the death spiritual, as but B E two Oddly, the one time we see the biblical demand God often Scripture in not only tells but shows— R Repeatedly 20 19, or more goodgood and and evil. evil. Since Since that that did did not not happen happen he heif if ate ate of of the the tree tree of of the the knowledge knowledge of of thatthat God God told told Adam Adam he he would would surely surely die die     13 witnesses in the  ex Bible,  pected to die after murdering followed, the  formal the punishment right process note

C because of age his at the time of the crime for in is word to them.” leaders who lived city, his in did Jezebel as had sent fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. Queen Jezebel commanded elders to “proclaim a word leaders who lived city, his in did Jezebel as had sent to death. And the men of city, his the elders and the God and the king.’ bring acharge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed set two worthless men opposite him, and let them because of age his at the time of the crime for in is to them.” pleple adrug adrug in in smuggling smuggling feud, feud, but but Quiroz Quiroz (executed(executed had had ), ), in in murdered murdered two two peo- peo- atat age age . . He He and and uncle, uncle, his his Jesus Jesus Aguilar Aguilar  Q en take out him and stone him Q guard’s offi chance to sit aprison in For our interview, he got a pillow mattress sink, atoilet, and -by- cell with ametal Wynne Unit cellmate a in life. He lives with his living prison, in it’s dead was akid. “I’ve been here since I , ,also on with a

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SUSAN OLASKY time. I don’t want to get old in here. ey can Jesus apparently did not favor such practice, and kill me and I’ll donate an organ.” He also taught His followers not to resist with arms Jean Paul Sartre famously wrote that “hell when they were persecuted for their faith. One of is others,” and Quiroz would second that: the fi rst deacons, Stephen, soon put Christ’s teaching “Can’t trust nobody here. … You either stay into practice when Sanhedrin members stoned him, down or you’re gonna ride underneath some- a practice that was less throwing rocks than drop- body. … A lot of sick people here. Dudes like to ping boulders on top of a person - feet below jack off in front of a female offi cer. … Last night them. Stephen set high the bar for not resisting: He two cellies got in a fi ght. Pepper spray every- and the many martyrs who followed Christ’s advice where. … I live off the land. … Wash clothes for had such an impact that Tertullian in the second people. Two soups for a shirt, two for pants. … I century famously said, “ e blood of the martyrs is get privacy on the toilet by using popsicle the seed of the church.” sticks to rig a little curtain. e guards let us get away with it as long as you move a hand to  V J., , is show you’re still there and still alive. … Most of still trying to come the time I’d just as soon be dead.” to grips with the blood he shed when    citing Scripture when Jhe stabbed the young Matthew :- quotes Him saying, woman he desired and “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye the young man who for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I seemed in the way. He’s Jsay to you, Do not resist the one who is evil.” It one of , inmates in may seem that Jesus was opposing the Old the Mark Stiles Unit east Testament and asserting a new pacifi st doc- of Houston. More than trine, but the tip-off is Jesus’ speech itself: He , of those inmates said, “You have heard” rather than “it is writ- have been found guilty of sexual assault or abuse, ten.” Jesus customarily used the former when sometimes with a child—and  are in for He referred to rabbinical interpretations not homicide. necessarily justifi ed by Scripture, but the latter Most of his fellow inmates have troubled family when He cited the Bible (as in the previous pasts, but Vian is particularly troubled about his lack chapter of Matthew, while turning aside Satan’s of trouble before the double murder in : “ is temptations). was my fi rst and only off ense. Never been arrested. I e “eye for an eye” phrase is a quotation from was more or less a suburban kid. My mom and dad Exodus :, Leviticus :, and Deuteronomy made sacrifi ces early on.” He grew up going to a :, and Jesus did not refute anything from the Old Baptist and then an Assemblies of God church, and Testament—but He did refute those who distorted now “I’m here for killing two people. … ey didn’t

ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN/CORBIS/AP • QUIROZ: TEXAS DEPARTMENT JUSTICE OF CRIMINAL Old Testament teaching and took it out of context. deserve what happened to them. … It’s kind of Pharisees believed God had given Israel two torahs, haunted me since then.” the written one but also an oral one—and they Vian then was a University of Houston student. believed the latter outlined death penalty He says he was going to punch his romantic compet- procedures. itor and “had the knife, like holding a roll of quarters e Talmud later recorded the rabbinical under- to give me some force. … When I started swinging, standings against which Jesus spoke. Opponents of something else kicked in.” Vian’s life in prison also capital punishment quote famed death penalty critic started with showing the willingness to fi ght: “ ey Rabbi Akiva of the main Jewish court, the beat you up two or three times and you’re still will- Sanhedrin, but Tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud ing to fi ght, then they leave you alone. … You become suggests that the anti-capital-punishment position a wood.” “Wood” is short for “peckerwood,” in this was a minority view. Dozens of pages of that tractate context a prisoner who doesn’t pay protection and lay out procedures for execution by burning, decapi- doesn’t “ride” (submit to homosexual acts). tation, stoning, or strangling, and give specifi c detail Vian says he’s proved he’s a “wood” rather than a such as Rabbi Yehudah’s explanation of “the proce- “ho,” and he wryly acknowledges getting good at dure for those who are burned: ey would sub- prison time-passers like dominos. He says if he merge him in manure up to his knees. … One pries hadn’t gone to prison he would have transferred to open his mouth with tongs against his will, and the Rice University, earned a degree in English and stud- OLASKY other lights a wick, throws it into his mouth, and it ied French with the idea of traveling to parts of west

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21 COVER STORY.indd 43 9/30/13 2:51 PM COVERING TRACKS One year after a devastating attack in Benghazi, the Obama administration is throttling investigations into what happened by J.C. derrick in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. State Department held no formal ceremony to mark Joe diGenova, a lawyer representing a State Department the one-year anniversary of last year’s Benghazi terrorist whistle-blower, also confirmed the ongoing intimidation by attack on Sept. 11. There was no moment of silence for multiple agencies when I spoke to him in late September. He Ambassador Christopher Stevens and others slain there, no said as time passes more people are coming forward with presidential statement, and no public recognition from information, but “we still have not received an hour-by-hour Secretary of State John Kerry. chronology of what [President Obama] did that night. … We’ve Instead, about two dozen State Department employees been told several different stories and we don’t yet know what gathered for a quiet, awkward remembrance beside a plaque the truth is.” memorializing employees killed in the line of duty. They What seems more clear about what happened in Benghazi exchanged hugs and tears, then went back to work. is that U.S. personnel there had been involved in transferring Earlier this year when lawmakers asked then Secretary of Libyan arms through Turkey to rebels in Syria. Ambassador State Hillary Clinton about the cause of the attack, she Stevens, considered an expert on Libyan weapons stockpiles exploded, “What difference at this point does it make?” from two previous stints in the country, held meetings with Apparently it makes a big difference: Government agencies the head of a Libyan shipping company and a Turkish official are waging an unprecedented campaign of intimidation to on the day of the attack. And a Turkish newspaper spotted silence Benghazi survivors and those with knowledge of U.S. then CIA director David Petraeus arriving in Istanbul—at least operations in Libya. U.S. officials are subjecting some his second unannounced trip there in six months. A British employees to regular polygraphs and requiring others to sign newspaper reported a Libyan vessel docked in Turkey with a nondisclosure agreements that are in addition to the ones 400-ton shipment including surface-to-air missiles and

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21 BENGHAZI.indd 44 10/2/13 10:52 AM UNCERTAIN GROUND: More questions than answers.

have been a reason for the Sept. 11 attack on Benghazi’s and misdirection of the Obama administration. the U.S. diplomatic mission: Estimates of how “No more lies,” said Charles Woods, father of many SAMs fell into jihadist hands range from unanswered Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was killed in a few hundred to thousands. questions the attack. “No more smoke and mirrors. That’s what Ty would want.” Woods said some of his CIA director John Brennan, who was the Who authorized the opening White House counterterrorism adviser at the of a special mission in Benghazi, son’s friends want to testify and haven’t been time of the attack, recently wrote a letter to a tumultuous city known for summoned. That same day Rep. Darrell Issa, House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike producing terrorists? who chairs the House Committee on Oversight Rogers, saying the identification of officers in and Government Reform, subpoenaed two Benghazi is classified, but the agency will supply Why did Ambassador Chris Benghazi survivors. “relevant information” to the committee. Stevens—two weeks after the Patricia Smith, who lost in the attack her “In the CIA they call that plausible denial,” State Department issued a only child, Sean Smith, pleaded with law- former CIA officer Kevin Shipp told me. “Most travel warning for Libya—have makers to find answers. She said Obama, of us call it lying.” to go to Benghazi on the 9/11 Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and other Shipp, part of a 13-member Citizens’ anniversary? top officials personally told her the attack was Commission on Benghazi launched in What did Stevens discuss spawned by a YouTube video that insulted September, spent part of his 17-year career as with Turkish Consul General Islam—a story they knew at the time wasn’t a polygraph examiner and a senior briefer on Ali Sait Akin the night of the true. nondisclosure agreements. Administering attack? The reason for the YouTube video charade, ­regular polygraphs, he said, and requiring according to retired military officers Brandon Where was President after-the-fact nondisclosure agreements are Webb and Jack Murphy, authors of Benghazi: Obama at the time of the attack against CIA policy and illegal: “In my entire The Definitive Report, was to create a diversion and what role did he play? career in executing nondisclosure agreements I from the “secret war” Brennan was fighting never saw that happen.” Who ordered U.S. forces not over weapons transfers: “The last thing the With the administration’s choke hold on to attempt a rescue mission? White House wanted was journalists digging Benghazi survivors, congressional hearings Where are the Benghazi into what was really going on in Libya, namely, in September yielded little new information, survivors? secret weapons transfers from Libya to Syria,” focusing instead on the findings of the Clinton- wrote Murphy and Webb. “More importantly, How many survivors are es commissioned Accountability Review Board. they did not want the press investigating the g

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21 NAGMEH ABEDINI.indd 46 10/1/13 4:40 PM A long way from Teh ra n Naghmeh Abedini and her two children face daily life in Idaho without her unjustly imprisoned husband Saeed

by EMILY BELZ in New York    / //

O  S.  N A of Boise, Idaho, was in New York. She was there to press the United Nations General Assembly to seek the release of her husband, Pastor Saeed Abedini, who has languished as a prisoner of conscience in Iran’s Evin Prison for the last year. Right before checking into her hotel in New York she learned that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in town for the General Assembly, would also be staying there. Before my scheduled interview with Naghmeh, the public relations fi rm handling her schedule called to move the interview elsewhere because security around the hotel was so tight. I happened to be in the lobby already, so we went ahead with the interview there, diplomats and bomb squads and security agents streaming around us. As we sat talking in the hotel lobby, the leader of the government that is imprison- ing Naghmeh’s husband unexpectedly walked into the room. Naghmeh paused for a second to collect herself, then grabbed a letter Saeed had written to the president and approached Rouhani, who was surrounded by his aides and American and Iranian agents. Rouhani stepped onto an elevator, but she went ahead and introduced herself to a member of his delegation who hadn’t gotten on the elevator. In Farsi she said, “I’m the wife of Saeed Abedini, who you have in Evin Prison.”  e aide registered shock. She told him it was important to give the letter to Rouhani.  e aide said he would. She came back and sat in her chair, visibly unruffl ed but admitting she felt tense about encountering Iranian security. Naghmeh would never be granted an audience with anyone in the Iranian government (and women in Iran

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21 NAGMEH ABEDINI.indd 47 10/1/13 4:41 PM are almost always veiled or in full-length black chador), much less Rouhani’s delega- tion. e only explanation she can come up with for the encounter is that she had earnestly prayed for it.

   B aren’t nearly so dramatic for Naghmeh, but they take a toll. After she has dropped her children off at school and she is driving home alone, Naghmeh, , sometimes asks herself Mwhat has happened to her life. ose quiet moments bring the overwhelming reality of her situation. Right now, she is eff ectively a single mother, and her husband Saeed may remain in Evin prison for the next seven years. He has not been allowed to have con- tact with his family. On Jan. , the last time they spoke, he called relatives in Iran, and they put his phone up to a phone with Naghmeh on the other line. She could barely hear him. Since then, they haven’t had contact except for the occasional letter. While her husband has faced interrogations and beatings, the United States in . e Iranians had Naghmeh has the trial of being the one who is left behind. She barred him from church activities, so he has two children, ages  and , to care for while constantly became an U.S. citizen and a pastor in Boise, trying to stir up the sleepy U.S. government to help one of its Idaho. e Abedinis traveled back to Iran own citizens unjustly imprisoned. She travels regularly, about from time to time to see Saeed’s family. In two-thirds of the month, and her mother has given up her job the past few years they have been to care for the children. e children travel with Naghmeh involved in starting an orphanage near when they can. She missed -year-old Rebekka’s kindergarten Saeed’s hometown, and all four of the graduation this year because she was at the UN Human Rights Abedinis traveled to Iran to work on Council in Geneva, Switzerland. it together in . In June , “I’ve had to tell myself this is a season of life,” she said. “If Saeed went back to Iran by him- I look at the eight years, I’m heartbroken.” self to continue work on the Saeed used to have to beg Naghmeh to come on trips with orphanage for a few months, a him, because she had such anxiety about fl ying. Now she has trip that Iran approved. to fl y all the time, and each fl ight is still hard for her. “I walk Despite the government into the airport and I think, here I am traveling and I hate approval, in September  the traveling—and Saeed is in a prison and he loves traveling,” she Iranian polpoliceice arrested Saeed, citing said. She also hated public speaking but has now spoken his earlier church work and saying before the United Nations, a congressional committee, he was a threat to national security. churches, universities, and cable TV audiences. In May she e police interrogated him and pulled her Farsi out of the mothballs to do a live prime time placed him in solitary confi nement interview for Voice of America in Iran, to an audience estimated in the awful Evin Prison for four in the millions. Because the interview was live, she was able months. In January the government to share the gospel on air without it being edited out. sentenced him to eight years in “His imprisonment caused millions of Muslims to hear prison, forbidding him to speak to about Christ,” she said. his wife and children for the dura- Naghmeh and Saeed Abedini are both Iranian-American. tion of the sentence. In August, an Naghmeh was born in the United States, while Saeed grew up Iranian court rejected his appeal in Iran as a Muslim, before his conversion to Christianity at age for release or a reduced sentence. . Saeed became a leader in the underground house church During his time in Evin Prison he movement in Iran and was arrested many times, but always has been beaten, suff ered internal released. He and Naghmeh met in Iran, married, and moved to bleeding, and been denied medical

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21 NAGMEH ABEDINI.indd 48 10/1/13 4:44 PM attention. Naghmeh said one interrogator told her husband that for Saeed’s release in March, but the administration didn’t com- he would make sure Saeed was hanged, and the police executed ment for months. e State Department in September did issue two fellow prisoners in front of him to intimidate him. a general call for Iran to release all “prisoners of conscience.” Two days after Naghmeh’s encounter with Rouhani, CNN’s Tiff any Barrans, the international legal director at the Christiane Amanpour interviewed the Iranian president and American Center for Law and Justice, has worked with asked him about releasing Saeed and another American, Amir Naghmeh to secure the release of her husband. Of all the Hekmati, who is imprisoned on charges of spying on Iran for international cases Barrans has worked on with the U.S. gov- the CIA. Rouhani demurred by saying he couldn’t interfere in ernment, “this is the least I’ve ever seen them do,” she said. the judicial process, but in the same breath indicated openness U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom Suzan to a prisoner swap. Johnson Cook has advocated for Saeed behind the scenes, but “ is is a sort of mutual request. e U.S. government … Cook’s offi ce has little clout in the State Department, Barrans must assist those Iranians, those people who are of Iranian said. When Barrans meets with diplomats and their staff from citizenship who are in prison here, as we should assist those other countries, they ask her, “Why haven’t we heard from people who have American citizenships that are incarcerated the U.S. government on this?” en on Sept.  President Barack Obama made the fi rst phone call from a U.S. president to an Iranian leader since . In their -minute conversation, Obama and Rouhani focused on a resolution for Iran’s nuclear program. Obama also asked for the release of Saeed and Hekmati. A White House offi cial recounted the call. Naghmeh said it was the most encouraging news since Saeed’s imprisonment.

      this year Naghmeh tried to be upbeat, but she saw her daughter, Rebekka, , looking longingly at the dads bringing their children to school. e irony is not lost on Naghmeh that her children don’t have a father right now because he was working on an Oorphanage. Rebekka has lost all her teeth since her dad went to prison. Saeed has missed two of her birthdays, but he managed to get a letter to her on her th birthday this year. HEARTBROKEN:HEARTBROKEN Naghmeh at in Iran,” Rouhani said, accord- “I was trying so hard to protect myself for you little ones. Capitol Hill hearing on religious ing to CNN’s translation. But the Iranian police lied to me that they would not arrest me. minorities in Iran; Saeed with Rebekka and Jacob; Rouhani e reputedly moderate Please don’t let your little shoulders bear so much burden,” he (clockwise from top). Rouhani came into offi ce this wrote. “In this new year of your life I want you to stand strong summer with promises of as you have stood the previous year and be patient and endure.” greater societal freedoms, but e hardest time for Naghmeh is bedtime, because Saeed crackdowns against Christians have continued under his always put the children to bed. Before they would go to sleep leadership. One example: eight Christians were convicted of he would sing and pray with them. Naghmeh said sometimes threatening national security after police raided their prayer the singing and praying would go on and on, and she would meeting. Naghmeh says Rouhani still has an opportunity to interrupt to say the kids had to go to sleep. Now he’s gone at prove he is a moderate, but she’s not buying the story that Iran bedtime, and she is depleted after doing everything for the has turned a new leaf. kids from the moment they woke up. But Naghmeh has found “ e Iranian government has played this game many them singing worship songs together or praying, entirely on times—to have people calm down and the media back off ,” their own initiative. she said. “ e Christian convictions have increased. ey “Since I was pregnant with them we prayed for that,” she continue to see ChChristianityristianity as a threat.” said. Until recently, Naghmeh has found meager support for Fulfi lling one of Saeed’s wishes, Naghmeh speaks Farsi at Saeed’s release from her own government. Making a deal is home with her children. Five-year-old Jacob’s middle name is complicated while the United States has no diplomatic relations Cyrus, for the ancient Persian king whose famous decree with Iran, but the U.S. government has been successful in advo- established religious freedom in the Middle East and allowed cacy eff orts with past prisoners who weren’t Americans—like the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, released about the same time e Abedinis chose the name hoping both of their children Saeed was arrested. Secretary of State John Kerry did fi nally call “would be a powerful tool for God for the Middle East.” A

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21 NAGMEH ABEDINI.indd 49 10/1/13 4:44 PM An eff ective extinction? A month of deadly violence by Islamic terrorists aims to wipe out by MINDY BELZ

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about. Goldberg has covered jihad- Muslims are victims of terrorist attacks, too. But wiping STRINGER/REUTERS/LANDOV; ists from Afghanistan to Gaza, and out Christians and targeting the West are chief ends. Terrorists

before he was a war correspondent who struck the Westgate Mall in Nairobi on Sept.  took time IMAGES; served as a guard over Palestinian to identify and separate Muslim shoppers before killing oth- terrorists at an Israeli prison camp. ers.  e mall is a popular site for Westerners living in Nairobi, September saw repeated high- itself a hub for international aid and mission work in East profi le attacks by Islamic terrorists—with high percentage Africa. And Kenya is over  percent Christian. SOBECKI/AFP/GETTY rates of casualties—from central Asia across the Middle East “ is attack has felt closer to home than even the embassy and down into Africa, including attacks in West Africa attack of ,” said Mike Delorenzo, a pilot with Africa Inland NICHOLE (Nigeria), North Africa (Libya), and East Africa (Kenya). Mission (AIM) based in Nairobi. “ is is a place we are familiar

To underscore an alarming, almost apocalyptic trend, with. A place we take our kids to on their birthday, or have a RIGHT: British historian Tom Holland, speaking at a London gathering business lunch with a coworker. I was just sitting on the TO Sept. , said of the rise in jihadist violence: “In terms of the terrace of Urban Burger a few weeks back with my daughter … LEFT

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21 JIHADI ATTACKS.indd 50 10/2/13 12:03 PM An effective extinctionhorror: Kenyan soldier ? still played in the background. rout Christians. Many villagers who lost their homes fled to S u rre a l.” stands next to a victim neighboring Cameroon as attacks continued, said Lipdo. inside the Westgate Mall; v Kenyan forces took nine suspects destruction in the town Another attack took place on Oct. 1, with vehicles and over 50

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G less noticed. In Yobe State Boko Haram militants killed a Middle East Forum, said these pogroms aren’t unprecedented: P/ F Catholic pastor and his two children on Sept. 26. The next day “It is the history of Armenia, of Egypt, of Andalusia, of Egypt, i/A k militants struck again at predominantly Christian villages— or the Balkans.” But it’s fueled by an Islamic revival he says is ec

ob burning 17 homes in Barawa along with two nearby churches “erupting” in violence against the infidel, “fueled by the anti- S e and killing Sunday Tuffa, a pastor—in nearby Borno state, Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-infidel verses in the Quran hol c where Boko Haram is based. and the Hadith.” Part of the fruit of the revival, he said, is so Ni t:

h “The fresh violence on Christians raises doubts about the many similar attacks at the same time.

rig success of the state of emergency imposed on three northeast- The challenge for Christians, Durie said in an email, “is to o t ern states in May,” said Mark Lipdo, director of Stefanos hold fast, to acknowledge the truth of what is happening: that eft l Foundation, a watchdog group that tracks violence in pre- Islam is a failed ideology which is bringing only sorrow and om

fr dominantly Islamic northern Nigeria, where terrorists aim to failure to the world.” A

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21 PORN.indd 52 10/1/13 12:43 PM  grew up in a conservative Internet porn is causing physical and moral damage Christian home and encountered to people inside and out of the church, aff ecting their pornography when a th-grade class- relationships with God and each other. Yet even as porn mate slipped a photo into his math book. seeps into more and more lives, churches still shrink He remembers the picture as “repul- back from engaging the issue.  at must change. sive” but “very intriguing. I knew it From ancient Rome to China, archeologists have was wrong.” Later in college he found paintings, pottery, and sculptures depicting turned to internet pornography after breaking up with sexual acts that date back thousands of years. But the his longtime girlfriend. internet has been for porn what the printing press was Richard (we’re using only fi rst names to preserve for books, providing users with endless images on their privacy), now a youth pastor in his mid-s, cites his computers and smartphones in complete privacy. A full- -year addiction to pornography as the prime reason blown addiction that took nine to  months to develop he’s still single: “It has kept me from healthy relation-  years ago now happens in three or four weeks. ships with women [and] drastically aff ected my maturity Web users entered almost . billion searches for in Christ.” He’s not alone: In only one generation the internet porn in the fi rst eight months of —averaging average marriage age in the United States today jumped fi ve for every person living in the United States. And from the early s to  for men and  for women. it’s not only men visiting these sites: Women make up Fleeting Many analysts have described how increased one-third of the traffi c (see sidebar). cohabitation, mounting college debt, and a greater It’s diffi cult to conduct sound research on pornogra- focus on higher education and careers contribute to phy addictions—in part because researchers can’t fi nd the higher marriage age.  e largely ignored factor is candidates to form control groups of people who don’t internet pornography, but our extensive interviewing use porn—but mainstream studies agree it rewires the shows porn is leaving relationships stillborn or brain and changes behavior. Porn accompanied by mas- images destroyed. turbation overexposes the brain to pleasure chemicals

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As her family situation predictably worsened, Reyes most only give it a passing reference, and virtually continued turning to pornography for comfort and escape. all direct comments to men—leaving out women Now , Reyes said she had and children, whose porn usage is on the rise. never spoken out about her Daniel Weiss of Brushfi re Foundation, an organi- addiction prior to speaking with zation that promotes a positive view of sexuality, WORLD. But she is hardly an said, “We have a situation where the whole world anomaly:  e  BYU study is talking about it, but the church and young people found  percent of women are looking for answers outside the church.” between  and  use pornog- In the absence of the church and proactive raphy. 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But old habits persisted even as she started reading it from the moral view, we are doing listeners a the Bible and going to church, where no one talked about porn use. terrible disservice,” said David Zailer, a former Reuniting with her unbelieving boyfriend led to more promiscuity: porn and drug addict who now heads Operation Every time she decided to abstain from sex, she feared her boyfriend Integrity, a porn recovery organization that started would leave her, so she went back to sleeping with him. PREVIOUS PAGE: CHAINS: ICEFRONT/ISTOCK • MAN: R-J-SEYMOUR/ISTOCK • THIS PAGE: KLUBOVY/ISTOCK in California: “ ey already know it’s wrong. e Eventually they moved in together, with Reyes hoping it would bring problem is people will stop but generally go back them closer together and lead to marriage. As a compromise to abstain to it because they’re stuck in isolation.” from sex, they started watching porn together. 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On most weekday mornings 1-year-old William Niles wakes to his mother’s smile. His mother, Kristen Holt, 32, changes and feeds him before >> leaving for her job managing a clothing boutique. Instead of being rushed to day care, though, William spends early mornings in the family room where his grandfather plays guitar and sings worship songs. He routinely goes with his grandma to water the deck plants and then across the grassy backyard to pet the neighbor’s sheep. But even grandparents have to work. Ron Holt, 55, and his wife Tish, 53, run an online marketing company from their Petaluma, Calif., home. When William is not napping, he is right in the mix, building blocks at their feet, eating Cheerios at the table, and watching Baby Einstein. Sometimes he is noisy during a phone call, and Ron has to tell a customer, “Oh, that’s my grandson.” The Holts don’t mind juggling William’s needs and their work demands. Tish grew up in a large Latino family from Texas that prioritized shared meals and maintained the motto “relationships trump schedules.” Ron appreciates the breaks in the day to read William a story or push trucks GRAND PLAN: across the wood floor: “I’m more Ron Holt childlike with him around. I’m amazed and William. at the level of enjoyment I experience. Having been down this road before … I often laugh at the things I would have stressed over as a new father.” Like the Holts, a growing number of couples entering

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about  yachts from sailing the Northwest Passage. Monterey, Calif., used what he believed was a sophisticated ARCTIC: JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES • CURIOSITY: REX FEATURES/AP • MONKEY: GLOBALP/ISTOCK • VOYAGER 1: JPL-CALTECH/NASA Climate scientists have long pointed to Arctic sea ice extent “high-resolution regional [climate] model for the Arctic Ocean” as a gauge of a warming world. Because ice refl ects sunlight to predict the North Pole would be ice-free by summer . into space, decreased pack ice will cause the oceans to absorb Al Gore cited Maslowski’s prediction six years ago during more heat, perhaps accelerating a warming trend. In fairness his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.  ey were both off to those warning of climate catastrophe, this year’s Arctic ice by  million square miles.

RESEARCH ROUNDUP Mars Immunity Interstellar space To the disappointment of sci-fi A vaccine to prevent HIV? Oregon Voyager , one of two nuclear-powered space- fans, NASA rover Curiosity has researchers have developed a vaccine craft launched in , has become the fi rst not found evidence of martians. that appears, for the fi rst time, to have man-made object to leave the solar system, a Since landing in August , protected nine rhesus monkeys from team at NASA announced.  eir the rover has measured simian immunodefi ciency virus, a calculations indicate the space- the atmosphere for cousin of HIV. A version of the vaccine craft left the solar system’s methane, a likely sig- could prevent HIV infections in humans, magnetic fi eld in August nature of microbial although potential trials are still a few . Long outliving its orig- life, but failed to fi nd years away. Also, the inal mission to the planets, any.  ough some researchers need to Voyager  continues to beam microbes on Earth live fi gure out why their back particle data from  without emitting meth- vaccine failed in billion miles away, and should ane, the absence of the gas seven other mon- maintain power until about suggests the red rock may be as keys. (Nature) . (Science) —D.J.D. dead as it looks. (Science) BRANDON CHAMPION/ BRANDON CHRONICLE/AP THE MUSKEGON

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‘Back to school’ Sept.  e questions and issues listed on your Sept.  cover are vital ones that I fear too many, even Christian parents, are unaware of. Do we understand scientism?

Do we discern that all schools teach secular “delivered” the next morning. anks humanism in the state systems? for the memory. —P K,, Portland, Conn. —J R. H, Pasadena, Calif. ‘Darwinian dictates’ Sept.  e Next Generation Science My husband is a minister and I teach in lievers to see our point of view. To Standards provide materialistic answers the public school system. Our four chil- change our culture and science teach- to religious questions and promote dren thrived in public schools because ing we must bring many who walk in activist, politically charged views on the we taught them Christian values. ings darkness into the light of the gospel. eff ects of humans on the environment, have gotten bad, but if Christians con- —E V, West Bend, Wis. global warming, and sustainability. e tinue to withdraw, schools will only get scientifi c aspects of these issues are worse. My children and I are mission- You quote astronomy professor Mark debatable and the promoters of NGSS aries every day. Dunn observing, “the only two trans- have no business taking a stand on —B T, Warrensburg, Mo. parent windows in the atmosphere political questions. allow us to see the heavens and hear —R L, Stow, Ohio is issue is a gold mine. Our grassroots the heavens.” at’s mind-boggling policy organization is promoting reli- truth traceable only to God, and we ‘Propaganda trumps teaching’ gious liberty in public schools at an should pass it on to boggle the minds of Sept.  e NEA resolution on accepting upcoming conference. You gave us unbelievers. homosexual and “transgender” students much to cite as we invite public school —D L, Houston, Texas is over  words long. Perhaps NEA parents, teachers, and administrators to offi cials need to learn how to craft a move “from fear to freedom” regarding ‘Dangerous faces’ sentence. My third-grade teacher Christian expression at school. Sept.  Reading several books, such as would have sent that resolution back —N L, Seaford, Del. Precious Remedies Against Satan’s for a rewrite. Devices (Notable Books, Aug. ), —R M, Brookfield, Conn. ‘ID incognito—for now’ prayer, and discussions with friends Sept.  ose who dissent from have convinced me that on my own I ‘Homebodies’ Darwinism must hide their names and cannot resist or even identify the Sept.  e article mentions Starbucks faces to save their academic careers, dangers described in this column. My several times as a place where people yet those who attend anti-religious or only hope is to abide daily in Christ. telework. Public libraries, which usually atheist conferences are open about it. —N U, Aurora, Ill. have free Wi-Fi, are a better alternative is is only one symptom of a society for those who work “at home” than a that increasingly tolerates what was Many years ago I was fi ne-tuning a company that is a big supporter of the once intolerable and rejects what was presentation that had signifi cant career homosexual-rights movement. once a virtue. It’s tragic. implications. Knowing that in a few —P Z, Blue Hill, Maine —J B, Archbold, Ohio hours top management would be scru- tinizing my every move was frightening. ‘ e evil that men do’ Shortly after reading this article I read But before retiring I picked up my Bible Sept.  A friend of mine who was Hebrews :: “By faith we understand and read Jeremiah :, which also raised Muslim and is now a Christian that the universe was formed at God’s promises, “I am with thee to deliver observes that when a Christian obeys command.” We cannot expect unbe- thee.” I slept well that night and was the Bible, he becomes more like Jesus

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and leaves vengeance in God’s hands. But the more closely a Muslim follows the Quran, the closer he comes to embracing terrorism. Why does our society ignore this? —P B. L, Bradenton, Fla.

‘Pant protection’ Sept.  ose trouser and suspender bandages for Halm the donkey are not really new. is week I learned about them in a storybook called Brighty of the Grand Canyon written in . Uncle Jim cut up his overalls and used his suspenders after Brighty was attacked by a mountain lion. I SHANGHAI, CHINA submitted by Theron Stallings wonder if Halm’s caretakers ever read this book. —J K,, 9, Parker, Colo. injuries, like water- even realize that they should have a skiing, in disability-collecting condition to get on this bandwagon. ‘Be less than you can be’ folks. But most troubling is how often I is is a terribly broken system of Aug.  As an emergency physician I see healthy-looking young people try- reward for indolence, in far too many have seen many work- and play-related ing to get disability benefi ts who don’t cases, and it leaves the truly disabled less likely to get help. —S B, St. Louis, Mo.

‘It’s the small things’ Aug.  Before reading Andrée Seu UNCOMPROMISING SUPPORT for children and families struggling after Peterson’s column I had a get-well card adoption, divorce, remarriage waiting to be sent that I thought was Cono Christian School “not that big a deal.” I was wrong. 3269 Quasqueton Avenue | Walker anks. Iowa 52352 —E N, Selah, Wash.

ank you for a much needed kick in the pants to write that thank you for a Our students are young people who have experienced trauma. Because of birthday party, a note that says I’m this they are struggling. Strained family relationships and stalled childhood thinking of you, to give a hug to some- development as a result of trauma are a common story for Cono. one who must need it, and so much Changes in family systems such as divorce or remarriage can cause disruption more. in the development of children. In adoptive familes these kinds of traumatic —T J, Gaithersburg, Md. events occurred earlier in a child’s life. Cono provides families and their children a place that fosters hope and ‘Hand-to-hand combat’ reconciliation. We offer a safe place for our students to move beyond current Aug.  When Mindy Belz said, “Every confusions and conflict, disruptive, aggressive and even violent behaviors, year the garden teaches me something a community in which every child can discovers at a deep level that they new about life under the sun,” my belong. heart sang! Last year I was out weeding Needs are met. Safety is found. Children are given voice. Healing begins. our apple trees, much more than I cared to, and fi nally complained to the Whether you need help for a child, or want to join us in this work.... Contact: Lord. He told me that people are always trying to get rid of weeds like old habits, Dave Toerper, Admissions: besetting sin, and wrong perspectives, 888-646-0038 x250 or [email protected] and showed me ways to keep the weeds Thomas Jahl, Headmaster: [email protected] in my garden and life from growing up. www.cono.org —J P, Dinuba, Calif.

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21 MAILBAG.indd 68 9/30/13 4:08 PM ‘Double jeopardy’ Health care for Aug.  To suggest that NYU traded Chen’s fellowship for the Shanghai campus is too speculative. To me, people of Biblical faith the story is Chen’s bravery, China’s human-rights abuses, and whether Chen is at risk from both sides of becoming a political pawn. —T F, Mansfield, Texas

I pass my WORLD copies on to my parents, who let my -year-old little brother read it. Recently, he delighted us by drawing a cartoon showing an airplane bearing the words “stock market” and “economy” crashing into a tree. He said it belonged in WORLD.  anks for a magazine that we can all enjoy. —R R, Pandora, Ohio

Clarifi cation WORLD’s story on Liberty University said Jerry Falwell Jr. pledged to keep Liberty “debt-free” as it continues its growth. Liberty, though, is using bond debt to fi nance its expansion: Falwell pledged that Liberty’s net assets If you are a committed Christian, you can live consistently with your would not fall below  billion. beliefs by sharing medical needs directly with fellow believers through Liberty’s fi scal year  revenue is  million. Its  student loan Samaritan Ministries’ non-insurance approach. You do not have to vio- default rate is . percent, com- late your faith by purchasing health insurance that pays for abortions, pared to a default rate of . percent abortifacient drugs, and other unbiblical practices. Health care sharing for private colleges and . percent satisfies the individual mandate in the recent Federal health care law for all colleges (“Advancing (United States Code 26, Section 5000A, (d), (2), (B)) Liberty,” Sept. , p. ). .

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